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ABOUT THE FILM
TOPLESS AT THE CONDOR THE CAROL DODA STORY is a feature length documentary set in San Francisco in 1964 when Carol Doda became the first dancer to go topless. Wearing fashion designer Rudi Gernreich’s monokini, she performed on top of a white baby grand piano that descended from the ceiling of the Condor Club in North Beach. Her act unleashed a sexual revolution across the nation. She then embarked on experimental silicone injections that increased her bust line from 32” to 44”. In the process, Carol Doda became a San Francisco tourist attraction second only to the Golden Gate Bridge.
Partially based on the book Three Nights at the Condor by Benita Mattioli, wife of former Condor Club owner Pete Mattioli, we tell the story of the birth and bust of topless dancing.
BIOS
Meet the Filmmakers
JONATHAN PARKER
Director / Writer
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
Producer/Writer
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 ULRICH
Executive Producer
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 PALOMINO
Producer
Vincent is a producer for BOOM and CAROL DODA TOPLESS AT THE CONDOR.
KAREN EVERETT
Story Editor
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 MAYER
Editor
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 project across documentary and fiction and has won many awards for her work.
JACK DOUGLAS
Music Supervisor
Grammy-winning record producer Jack Douglas is known for his work with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Patti Smith, Cheap Trick, and New York Dolls, among other rock artists in the 1970s and 1980s, notably producing three successful albums for Aerosmith.
RICHARD BEGGS
Sound Designer
Richard Beggs won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film APOCALYPSE NOW. He has worked on more than 60 films since 1979 including Jonathan Parker’s films, (UNTITLED) and THE ARCHITECT.
ELIZABETH STRONG
Assistant Editor
Elizabeth Strong is a visual journalist based in the Bay Area. Through photography and video she examines the nuances of human nature, and political and social issues that impact our world. Elizabeth’s work investigates critical elements that form our individuality and societies with projects like My America Is, Black Men Are Beautiful and the Webby honored campaign “I Identify”, where she was producer, cinematographer, and editor.
Elizabeth studied filmmaking and photography at Chapman University in Orange, California. Her junior year she interned with IM Global at the Cannes Film Festival and months later she was hired to be an executive assistant at their London office; and Elizabeth has worked in production ever since.
JEN PETRUCELLI
Sub-Basement Archival
Sub-Basement Archival brings together their considerable and complementary strengths – honed for 15 years in documentary production. Since its founding in 2014, Sub-Basement has had the honor of working on award-winning documentaries on a wide range of social and political topics. Sub-Basement films have aired on public television, network television and Netflix, screened at Sundance and festivals worldwide, and garnered three FOCAL Awards for use of archival footage.
RACHEL ANTELL
Sub-Basement Archival
Sub-Basement Archival brings together their considerable and complementary strengths – honed for 15 years in documentary production. Since its founding in 2014, Sub-Basement has had the honor of working on award-winning documentaries on a wide range of social and political topics. Sub-Basement films have aired on public television, network television and Netflix, screened at Sundance and festivals worldwide, and garnered three FOCAL Awards for use of archival footage.
JAINA SHAW
Researcher
Jaina Shaw is a professional librarian and archivist working out of New York. After working in public and academic libraries for 15 years, she left to pursue her passion for historical research. TOPLESS AT THE CONDOR is her first documentary project.
RICK MORSE
Associate Producer
Rick has decades of experience as a producer and an entertainment attorney. For the last several years, he has served as Sr. VP of Business and Legal Affairs for Radar Pictures, the successor company to Interscope Communications known for a myriad of critically acclaimed and box office successes such as THE LAST SAMURI, MR. HOLLAND’S OPUS CONKTAIL and several that have gone into remakes or sequels under Rick’s tenure, including the JUMANJI reboot. He is thrilled to not only be a participant in TOPLESS AT THE CONDOR, providing his first hand experience with Carol Doda, but also to offer his unique blend of skills.
NATALIE DEVRIES
Production Assistant
Natalie Devries is a graduate of the Cinema department at San Francisco State University, with a minor in Women and Gender Studies. She is excited to be working for Parker Film Company as a production assistant. Natalie is especially passionate about film as a medium of art, healing, and storytelling. She is also currently working as an intern for documentary filmmaker, Laura Green, for a 3 part series that will air on PBS. Natalie is based in Southern California, and is focusing on continuing to grow in her filmmaking skills and expand her work in the film industry.
PATRICK FOGARTY
Cinematographer/Editor
Patrick Fogarty is an award winning music video director based in Los Angeles, CA. Since 2005 he has been working professionally as a writer, director, cinematographer and editor on a wide variety of projects ranging from feature films and documentaries, to scripted television, commercials, and live events. He has contributed his cinematography skills to the documentary film TOPLESS AT THE CONDOR.
PHOTO GALLERY
CREDITS
Pete Mattioli, former owner of the Condor Club.
Benita Mattioli, author of “Three Nights at the Condor,”
Congressman John Burton, author Wednesday Martin and saxophonist, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, and Sly and the Family Stone Co-Founder, Jerry Martini and many more.
Produced, written and directed by: Jonathan Parker and Marlo Mckenzie
Produced by: Vince Palomino
Executive Producer: Lars Ulrich
Story Editor: Karen Everett | New Doc Editing
Editor: Jennifer Mayer
Associate Producer: Rick Morse