Center Street Rising Filmographies, About the Makers

Tracy Sabeti - Producer, Director

Tracy Sabeti produced and was director of photography for a cable television show, South County Cooking. She also produced and directed the documentary, A Life Well Lived that was aired on local networks. Her writing and directing credits include a music video for the web, Menudo and Gritz as well as a pilot for national educational television, Mr. Keith, the Science Freak. She also directs and produces advertising videos for local businesses as well as foreign commercial television. Tracy is currently producing and directing a documentary, Gathering Others.

Ashkan Golara - Editor, Director of Photography

Ashkan produced several short films including Despondent Gamble, which he directed and edited. He was Director of Photography for Picture Day and Beginning Babylon, both of which have aired on local television. He is currently Director of Photography for a short feature film, John Beard, and does freelance editing for other films companies in both Los Angeles and Orange County.

Catherine Stanley - Producer, Writer

Catherine has a journalism degree from Marquette University, with studies in screenwriting, playwriting, and editing. She was an Editor for both Scott Foresman Publishing and American Liberty Press and also founded both the Orange County Playwrights Alliance and Drama West Productions. An award-winning writer, her scripts have been produced by the Playwrights Lab at South Coast Repertory, Stages Theatre, the Vanguard Theatre, Changing Masks Theatre, First Stage, The Lindley Whitmore, and other Orange County and Los Angeles venues. For over ten years she has produced and marketed new script events for Borders Books stores and Barnsdall Art Park in Hollywood as well as public sites for the L.A. City Fine Arts Council. As Producer and Creative Director of Drama West Productions, Catherine screens new films and play scripts in L.A. on a bi-monthly schedule and serves on the board of directors for Open Call Productions as well as marketing liaison for Hope Media Productions Film Festival in L.A.

Dot C. Leach - Producer, Assistant Director

Dot graduated from the University of Texas in Broadcast Journalism. Her reporting and documentary production experience includes Huston-Tillotson College; The Faces of Child Abuse, and Behind the Scenes at he Governor’s Mansion: Governor and Mrs. Dolph Briscoe of Texas. She has also anchored with PBS station KLRN, Associated Press Sound, and NBC affiliate, KTVV. Dot produced videos for Medical Television at the Texas Medical Center, including Grand Rounds: Oncology, Pediatric Oncology and Gynecological Oncology. She also co-produced and hosted Issues and Answers for local cable networks and produced Articulated Vehicles for Challenging Terrain in the Oilfield, a video exhibited in Japan, Twain and Australia. In Houston, she produced two award-winning media campaigns, Prescriptions for Life; Traffic Safety: School’s in Session. And in Chicago, she was media consultant for a U.S. Senatorial campaign, producing and hosting a half-hour program for the local cable network. She currently works in media relations for local government projects in Orange County