Llewellyn Smith (llew.smith@vitalpix.com) began his television career in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1978. Since that time, he has contributed to a number of award-winning PBS series, including From Jumpstreet, A Story of Black Music (1982) and Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years (1985). 

From 1988 to 1995 Smith was series editor for PBS's American Experience, where he played an editorial role in originating, developing and acquiring more than 70 programs on American history.

Christine Herbes-Sommers has produced over 100 hours of documentary, dramatic and educational programming for PBS since 1976. Her film Joan Robinson: One Woman’s Story won the DuPont Columbia Journalism Award in 1981.  Her other work has garnered many other awards.

After a decade of independent production and several years living with her family in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Sommers joined WGBH as senior producer/project director for educational programming in 1992.

In that role she produced five large-scale multi-platform projects, including the 26-part Biography of America; and Discovering Psychology, an update of the 26-part survey of psychology. In 2003 she directed/producedThe Difference Between Us, the first episode of the critically acclaimed Race: The Power of An Illusion.

For The Big Picture educational organization, Herbes-Sommers created and managed a fully interactive broadcast and videoconference network among innovative Big Picture High Schools nationwide. She also produced a multi-year narrative documentary that followed a cohort of Big Picture students and staff, their successes, challenges, and daily dramas.

Wendy Riseborough (wendy.rise@vitalpix.com) a native Bostonian, made her production start at WGBH with Christine Sommers over 14 years ago on the series Connect with English. She then spent 10 years in Los Angeles and New York working as a coordinator, production manager and line producer for numerous feature films and television shows. She was co-producer of the feature documentary, Show Business: The Road to Broadway, nominated for best documentary by the Independent Documentary Association, and production managed for the Sundance Grand Jury award winner Chuck & Buck. As Coordinating Producer of Vital Pictures, she develops new projects, oversees productions and helps run the day to day operations.

Kelly Thomson (kelly.thomson@vitalpix.com) is the Associate Producer for Vital Pictures.  She was the Series Associate Producer for the four part series, Unnatural Causes:  Is Inequality Making Us Sick and is currently the Associate Producer for the one-hour, Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness. She is also in development on a feature-length documentary about the life and work of the controversial anthropologist, Bronislaw Malinowski. Previously, Kelly worked as Head of Productions for 50 Lessons, helping to create over 30 portraits of some of the world’s leading business professionals. She was also the Program Associate at Scenarios USA, a non-profit film production company that partners under-served teens with award-winning filmmakers to produce stories around sexuality and health. Kelly has worked on a number of independent films and shorts over the past ten years including Untamed, Hotels 4, All Falls Down, Milk, A Vote for Choice, and Funeral of the Last Gypsy King. Kelly Thomson received her BA from New York University in Religious Studies.