Quick Brown Fox- About the Filmmakers

A White Noise Production

About the Filmmakers

Ann Hedreen is a producer, director and writer. Rustin Thompson is a director, writer, editor and cameraman. Married, with two children, Ann and Rustin own Seattle-based White Noise Productions, known for its independent documentary films and for its advocacy films for non-profit organizations. Over their 25-year careers, they've won many Emmys, Tellys, festival awards and other recognitions for their work.

Some of their most recent productions include: The Church on Dauphine Street, which made its broadcast debut in October 2007 on New Orleans' PBS station WYES and is now available on DVD; Art without Walls: the Making of the Olympic Sculpture Park, which aired in January 2007 on KCTS Public Television and is also available on DVD; Wild America: Protecting the Lands Explored by Lewis & Clark, narrated by Sissy Spacek and screening at Sierra Club and Lewis & Clark Bicentennial events around the country; False Promises: The Lost Land of the Wenatchi, which aired on western PBS stations in 2002 and is distributed by Filmakers Library in New York; Global Partnerships, the story of how tiny loans are changing lives in Central America, which was a finalist for the national Telly Awards; and 30 Frames A Second: The WTO in Seattle, voted one of the top ten films of 2001 by the American Library Association and winner, Best Documentary, Chicago and Seattle Underground Film Festivals (2000), Portland, Maine Festival of World Cinema (2001), Chris Award, Columbus Film and Video Festival (2001), and Most Inspirational Documentary, Vancouver, BC, Reel to Real International Youth Film Festival (2002).

Ann's career has spanned print journalism, television news and documentary production, and public affairs assignments for dozens of clients ranging from the National Wildlife Federation to the Seattle Art Museum. She is also a writer of fiction and essays. Ann is a graduate of Wellesley College. She began her career at the City News Bureau of Chicago.

Rustin has more than 20 years of broadcast experience as a cameraman, producer and editor with CBS, PBS, ABC, NBC, ESPN, CNN, the Learning Channel and several local stations. Rus has shot and co-produced documentaries in locations ranging from Haiti to Bangladesh to Moscow to Central America. He is also an on-air programmer and film critic for KBCS radio. Rus graduated from the University of Washington.

Ann and Rus are both Northwest natives with deep family roots in Seattle and Montana (Ann) and Tacoma and rural Washington (Rus). In 1987, they began their married life by quitting their jobs in local television and traveling around the world for a year. They live in Seattle with their two children, Claire and Nick.