Gabrielle Savage Dockterman

An award-winning producer, director, writer, and editor, Gabrielle Savage Dockterman is the founder and President of Angel Devil Productions, Inc., where she creates moving, gripping films that enlighten. _Missing In America (2005)_ is her feature film debut. Prior to developing feature films, Dockterman produced and directed many award-winning educational interactive media projects. Her specialty is creating engaging stories that provide a context for learning. Her critically acclaimed CD-ROMs and videodiscs are used in thousands of classrooms and dozens of museums around the world. Her work has been funded by major grants from the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Education, and numerous museums, corporations, and publishers. Dockterman was the Executive Producer of "Rainforest Researchers," an interactive CD-ROM shot on location in Indonesia, developed with scientists at Harvard University, and published to schools by 'Tom Snyder Productions' (a Scholastic company). This interdisciplinary, dramatic adventure highlights the scientific and social issues facing the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia. On a remote jungle island off of Sumatra, she and her crew climbed 150-foot trees in primary forest, where shamans still use medicinal plants to treat their sick. In a unique collaboration, she and the scientists and crew involved also functioned as the cast in the story, along with the native Mentawai people. "Rainforest Researchers" won the prestigious Codie Award, the ITVA Golden Reel, the Technology & Learning Award of Excellence, the NewMedia Invision Award, and a Parent's Choice Award. Dockterman also served as Producer, Director, and Editor of "Minds-On Science," a multimedia series for classrooms commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution, where it is on permanent display at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. Dockterman directed over 70 actors in these dramatic narratives. Her other educational projects include the best-selling interactive video adventures, "The Great Solar System Rescue" (winner, New York Film Festival, and the Technology and Learning Award of Excellence), and "The Great Ocean Rescue" (Teachers' Choice Award from Learning Magazine). In the 1980s, Dockterman was Vice President of Production and Design for Digital Techniques, an early pioneer in multimedia. Under her direction, her team created some of the first interactive video touch-screen exhibits, including a series of groundbreaking exhibits for an international consortium of science museums. Dockterman has served as guest speaker at SIGGRAPH, the Nebraska Videodisc Symposium, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and elsewhere, addressing the use of interactive computer graphics and video in educational environments. She was formerly on the review board of The Journal of Computing in Higher Education, as an expert on TV media and the use of technology in grades K-12. Dockterman is an honors graduate in engineering and computer science from Harvard University, and a Thomas Alva Edison Scholar. While at Harvard, she also studied acting under Jeremy Geidt at the American Repertory Theater.