 BE GOOD, SMILE PRETTY is Tragos' directorial debut. The film premiered at the 2003 IFP Los Angeles Film Festival, where it won the Best Documentary Feature award. Tragos was also awarded the President's Award for Excellence in Documentary Film from Vietnam Veterans of America for her work on the film. On Veteran's Day 2003, BE GOOD, SMILE PRETTY will have its U.S. broadcast premiere on the PBS series Independent Lens.
Tragos started her career at DreamWorks, SKG, where she rose through the ranks from an assistant to a writer/producer on story-based CD-ROMs. Her credits there include Dilbert's Desktop Games, Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland starring Jeff Goldblum and Isabella Rossellini, and The Neverhood. More recently, she has worked as a freelance writer and producer, developing scripts and stories, including Miss Whoopass, an original animated series, and Dancing Between Courses, a one-act play.
Tragos is currently writing a book and developing both narrative and documentary projects through her new production company, Dinky Pictures, named after her father. She is also the founder and president of Orphans of War Foundation, whose on-going purpose is to increase awareness and understanding of the impact of the Vietnam War on those who lost a parent there. Tragos holds a BA in English from Northwestern University and an MFA with honors in Cinema/Television from the University of Southern California.
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Chris Donahue (Executive Producer) divides his time between narrative film, documentaries, and teaching. He is currently serving as Executive Director for the HUMANITAS Prize, an annual writer's award that celebrates films and television shows that not only entertain, but also enrich the viewing public. His most recent feature film, Straight Right, premiered at the 2000 Los Angeles International Film Festival and aired on the Sundance Channel. In 1998, Chris was honored with an Academy Award for the Best Live Action Short Film, Visas and Virtue. He has taught at the American Film Institute and Loyola-Marymount University. He was Co-Producer on the feature-film ENTERTAINING ANGELS: The Dorothy Day Story, starring Moira Kelly and Martin Sheen available through Warner Home Video. Chris serves as a Trustee for the HUMANITAS Prize, is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and holds graduate degrees from the American Film Institute and the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California. |
Chris Tragos (Co-Producer) has worked as an Executive Producer on such programs as NIGHT BITES (a one-hour special for WE), WILLIE'S WORLD (a half-hour reality pilot for E! Entertainment), MALL OR NOTHING (a half-hour game show pilot for the Style Network), and WHAT'S YOUR 20? (a reality series on COX CABLE). Chris started his career in entertainment as a Management Associate at Sony Pictures Entertainment. He then went on to head up marketing at Paramount Digital Entertainment. Chris has a bachelors degree from Duke University and a masters degree from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He is also happily married to Tracy Droz Tragos and her producing partner in Dinky Pictures. |
 Kat Tragos (Director of Photography and Co-Producer) has worked as an art director at several advertising agencies, including Young & Rubicam in New York City, where she contributed to the creative strategy of brand accounts Jell-O, Adidas, Colgate, Kentucky Fried Chicken, New York Telephone, People Magazine, the Jamaica Tourist Board and the United Negro College Fund. Kat holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Washington University and is a graduate of the Miami Ad School, where she won several awards for her filming and photography work, including third prize at the Kurz & Schon International Film Competition. Kat volunteered her skills, time, and energy to this project because she wanted to get back to the root of her interest in art and film, away from commercialism, and toward more humanitarian goals. She is also Tracy Droz Tragos’ sister-in-law.
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 Jenna McFeely (Editor) is a writer, director and editor who originally hails from the Bay Area. After receiving her B.A in art history from Princeton University, she moved to Los Angeles to attend USC, receiving an M.F.A. in film production in 1999. Her work as a film director includes the short films Insomnia, and Late Harvest, which screened at several film festivals in 1999 and 2000, respectively. Last summer she made her theatrical directing debut with Collision Theory at Theatre of Note in Hollywood. Her work as a writer took her to Villa Montalvo in Saratoga, CA where she was an artist in residence during the summer of 2000, researching a script based on the life of southwestern landscape photographer Laura Gilpin. Recent editing work (other than BE GOOD, SMILE PRETTY) includes projects for Essential Entertainment, including their television documentary series, Go Jane Doe. Jenna is currently editing another documentary, "Charlie's Lake", as well as writing and developing several projects as a founding member of Short Stack Pictures. |
 SIREN music productions was created in 2001 by three Los Angeles-based composers: Christina Agamanolis, Mariana Bernoski, and Willow Williamson. Siren draws from a background of Classical, Folk, Rock, Experimental, and Electronic music to create their own sound and collaboration with visual imagery, narrative and design.
All three women have Master’s degrees from California Institute of the Arts, and undergraduate degrees from Oberlin Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory, and Mills College respectively. Individually, the artists have achieved acclaim on compilation albums, performed at international music festivals, worked in multimedia presentations and written scores for dance and film productions around the world.
Credits include: Dahmer: The Mind is a Place of its Own - nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards, Be Good, Smile Pretty - winner of the 2003 jury prize for best feature documentary at the Los Angeles Film Festival, This Girl’s Life, and cues for Television shows such as Extra and Celebrity Justice. Visit www.sirenmusicproductions.com for more information about SIREN.
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