The Renaud Brothers Visit RenaudBrothers.com
Brothers Craig and Brent Renaud have directed and produced award winning films for HBO, NBC, Discovery, PBS, CBS, MTV and ESPN in places like Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Bolivia, China, Pakistan and Juarez. Their films Off to War, Dope Sick Love, and Little Rock Central; 50 Years Later have earned the Renaud brothers an Emmy and Director’s Guild nomination, an Overseas Press Club Award, an International Documentary Association Award, the National Education Writers Association TV Documentary Award, and top honors at the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Tokyo Video Festival.
The Renauds recently completed a five part series on the drug war in Juarez, Mexico, for the New York Times online and have another series shot in Haiti coming out in January. They are currently producing programs for Dateline NBC. The Renaud brothers are the founders and creative directors of the Little Rock Film Festival and split their time between Little Rock, Arkansas and New York City. For more information, check out their website and youtube pages.
The Renaud Brothers outside of Baghdad, Iraq, editing their 10 part Discovery Series Off to War.
Producer Vincent Insalaco
Vincent Insalaco has been involved in making political and biographical documentary films for more then 25 years. His first narrative feature film,“War Eagle, Arkansas, has won more than 20 National Film Festival Awards and is currently being distributed theatrically throughout the United States.
In addition to his work in film, Vincent has had a political and business career spanning three decades. He has worked with or for President Bill Clinton, U.S. Sen. David Pryor, and U.S. Sen. John Glenn. He served as Assistant Secretary of State for Arkansas (1981-1984) and president of the Young Democrats of Arkansas (1981-83). In 1985 he was appointed by the U.S. State Department to attend an International Conference between the United States and the Soviet Union and between 1985 and 1991, he organized and coordinated dialogues in Russia , Germany, and Israel . In business, Vincent founded Family Entertainment in 1984. The company grew to 50 stores and 300 employees and was sold in 2002. Vincent was married for 32 years to the late Sally Riggs Insalaco who passed away in 2006. He has two children, Elizabeth and Vincent III and 3 granddaughters.
Hop Litzwire – Title Sequence Design/Post Production Services
As an Emmy Award-winning and multiple Telly Award-winning director, producer, videographer, editor, and composer, Litzwire has been a creative force behind numerous nationally televised productions, including a number of series for ESPN. From the mid 1990’s into the early 2000’s, Litzwire spent time concentrating almost exclusively on the music business as the lead vocalist and principal songwriter for MCA Records’ power-pop band BOBGOBLIN, later filling the same roles with the internationally renowned My Records band Adventures of Jet. During that time, he also directed music videos for some of the top indie rock bands, which appeared on MTV and Much Music. In more recent years, with the development of his company Litzwire Sound+Vision, Hop has taken the helm of the current top-rated Field Sports program on Versus Network, and composed music for three of the Renaud Brothers’ acclaimed documentaries for HBO and the Discovery Times Channel. In addition to his work with the Renaud Brothers, this fall Litzwire is producing a PBS documentary concerning cemetery preservation called “Silents Storytellers,” and producing the World Racquetball Championships for Versus Network.
