Theresa Kereakes

A Los Angeles native, Theresa Kereakes won her first award for production when she was only 14 years old. Her high school's creative writing class project was a short film entitled "Thirteen Bubbles," which won its category in a student film festival sponsored by David L. Wolper. Kereakes was a writer, camera operator, and performer in the project. A "camera operator" since the age of 4, Theresa naturally documented what she saw when as a college student (UCLA, 1976-1979), the punk rock movement exploded. The result is a body of work that includes some of the iconic images that lay the foundation of collective punk rock memory. Throughout her career, she has combined her love of music with her craft, directing music videos and supervising production at VH1 from its 1994 relaunch through 1998. Prior to VH1, Theresa was at PBS flagship station, WNET-13 in New York City, and at Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein & Selz, an entertainment law firm also in New York. Her television/film and radio specialty is launching and relaunching channels and their programming. Currently, she consults for independent film and music clients and develops and produces both documentary and narrative properties. She has been exhibiting her still photographs under the "Punk Turns 30" banner since 2004 and has 3 monographs in various stages of production.