Credits

Lynn Hamrick ----- Producer/Director/Writer
Vincent Stenerson ----- Editor
Greg Glomb ----- Camera
David Wysocky ----- Sound
Larry Seymour ----- Music

Location

World Youth Chess Festival For Peace, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

Featuring

Judit Polgar the greatest female chess player in the world, Fred and Josh Waitzkin the real-life father and son subjects of the film, Searching for Bobby Fischer and many more of the world's top young chess players ages seven through fourteen plus their coaches and parents.

Available Formats

D-2, Betacam SP, 3/4" U-Matic and VHS videotape(NTSC), and PAL.

Length

51 minutes

Completion Date

March 1996

World Premiere

Taos Talking Picture Festival, April 20th, 1996

The Production Team

Producer/Director

Lynn Hamrick the Producer/director of Chess Kids directed multiple episodes of Family Ties(NBC), The Babysitters' Club(HBO), Growing Up Together(Lifetime) and Fudge(ABC). Lynn won the Director's Guild Award for Testing Dirty, an ABC Afterschool Special and is the recipient of over twenty five other awards for her work. She produced and directed the dramatic segments for the 6-part U.S. Constitution Series hosted by Bill Moyers. Her most recent credits include the feature films, FINDING KELLY, and SPLITSVILLE with Christopher Lambert. [more bio] [Top]

Editor

Vincent Stenerson is an Emmy Award-winning editor who has edited documentaries for HBO, the Discovery Channel, PBS, IMAX and network television. A partial list of credits over his 30 year editing career includes, America Undercover(HBO), In all Her Sins and Graces(Discovery Channel), The Astronomers(KCET) and Smithsonian World(PBS). [Top]

Videographer

Greg Glomb has been shooting film and video for fifteen years for primetime television, PBS, the Oprah Winfrey Show, the Disney Channel and the BBC. In addition to shooting numerous documentaries, Greg also lensed Entrepreneurs for Central Broadcasting British Television. [Top]

Composer

Larry Seymour the composer of Chess Kids is well established as a Los Angeles studio musician and has played with such artists as Rod Stewart, Billy Idol, Tom Jones, etc.. Larry composed the Emmy Award-winning feature documentary, Dialogues With a Mad Women, as well as many other features, television series and commercials. [Top]