JAYNE LOADER is a writer/director whose work includes novels, short stories, film and multimedia. After several years of freelance work as a journalist, critic, ghostwriter and film professor, Loader became a filmmaker. She co-directed, produced and edited the celebrated documentary THE ATOMIC CAFE, a black comedy about the atomic age, first released in 1982 to great critical and popular acclaim. Loader’s notable writing credits include the novel “Between Pictures and Wild America,” a collection of short stories, both published by Grove Press.
Recently, Loader accepted an appointment as Co-Master of Quincy House at Harvard University. She is currently writing an historical novel, “Flygirls: The Story of the 1929 Women’s Air Derby.”
KEVIN RAFFERTY began his filmmaking career with “Murray Tomorrow,” a verite expose co-directed with Richard Cohen about forced drugging in a California State Hospital for the “criminally insane.” Rafferty went on to direct such notable documentaries as THE ATOMIC CAFE, “Feed,” a behind-the-scenes look at the New Hampshire Presidential Primary of 1992, and “The Last Cigarette,” a compilation history of the culture of tobacco use. Besides directing his own documentaries, Rafferty has also contributed his camera work to such documentary classics as Michael Moore’s “Roger and Me” and Pennebaker and Hegedus’ “The War Room.”
PIERCE RAFFERTY co-founded his own archive, Petrified Films, Inc. in 1985, after discovering the joys of film and photo archives while doing research for THE ATOMIC CAFE. In conjunction with Prelinger Associates, both companies became known world wide as a source for unique and often quirky archival stock footage and photos. Petrified’s collection grew over the next decade to include the Warner Brothers Stock Footage Library (pre-1951) and the Columbia Pictures Stock Footage Library (pre-1965). Rafferty sold the motion picture division of the archives in 1994 to The Image Bank, Inc. Rafferty currently resides in Brooklyn, NY and continues to work on history-based projects of his own design.
