Jonathan Parker is a writer, director, producer, musician and composer based in San Rafael, CA. He received a BA degree in English from Stanford and began his career as a musician, performing in indie rock bands and the Marin Symphony.  He turned to filmmaking after he and fellow band members self-directed a music video that attracted attention from Hollywood.

Marlo McKenzie grew up in Metro Detroit. She’s studied language in France, worked in theater in Germany, and co-founded a video production company that trained formerly homeless youth in Australia. Now based in the San Francisco Bay Area she is thrilled to be partnered with Jonathan Parker to co-direct the documentary film CAROL DODA TOPLESS AT THE CONDOR. She is also directing a documentary about imaginative play, called MY SECRET COUNTRY. Previously she edited, co-wrote and produced the documentary BUTTERFLY TOWN, USA now airing on PBS stations. She also associate produced the four-part documentary series called, STANDING ON SACRED GROUND.

Lars is a Danish drummer and one of the founding members of Metallica. He is passionate about independent film and devoted to his adopted home of San Francisco. His love for Jonathan Parker’s film (UNTITLED), led  him to form a relationship with the director and the two realized their mutual interest in partnering together on BOOM and CAROL DODA TOPLESS AT THE CONDOR.

Vincent is a producer for BOOM and CAROL DODA TOPLESS AT THE CONDOR.

Karen Everett is one of the world’s leading documentary story consultants. Author of Documentary Editing, Karen taught editing for 18 years at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, named the #1 documentary program by Documentary Magazine.

Jennifer is a gifted editor with an intuitive sense of visual storytelling. She finds the diamonds in the rough of your material and
shapes it into a fast paced narrative. She’s edited numerous projects across documentary and fiction and has won many awards for her work. The
documentary she edited immediately prior to editing “Topless at the Condor: The Carol Doda Story” will be on PBS in 2023.