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Rebels With A Cause Contributors Kelly+Yamamoto Productions
Nancy Kelly and Kenji Yamamoto made Smitten, a documentary thatenters the world of Napa Valley’s Rene di Rosa, an unusual art collector whose goal is neither about interior decorating nor increasing social status, but about the pure joy of discovery. Smitten was made in partnership with KRCB public television with support from ITVS and the Fleishhacker Foundation. Smitten won several film festival awards and has aired repeatedly as a PBS Primetime Special. In 2009, Smittenwill launch on iTunes. Nancy and Kenji made the hour-long documentary, Downside UP, which aired on the PBS Independent Lens series. Downside UPis a first-person story about America’s largest museum of contemporary art (MASS MoCA), which opened in the abandoned Massachusetts factory where Kelly’s grandparents and parents once worked. Downside UP explores whether something as ephemeral as contemporary art can breathe life into a dying city. Nancy and Kenji also made the critically acclaimed American Playhouse Theatrical film Thousand Pieces of Gold, which showed at many international film festivals and was theatrically released in the US and Europe. It aired on the PBS American Playhouse series, was broadcast worldwide, and is on Netflix. Nancy also produced and directed the documentaries Cowgirls: Portraits of American Ranch Women; A Cowhand's Song: Crisis on the Range; and Sweeping Ocean Views. Kenji has edited a number of documentaries, including: New Muslim Cool, produced and directed by Jennifer Taylor; Immigration Calculations, a KQED production produced by Jennifer Taylor and Sheraz Sadiq; the DVD extras for the HBO series Deadwood, produced and directed byDavid Schwarz; and Thirst,anhour-long documentary that aired on the PBS P.O.V. series, produced and directed by Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman. The Team Nancy Kelly, Director, Producer, Writer Kenji Yamamoto, Editor and Producer Stan Marvin, KRCB Program Director FUNDERS California Stories: California Council for the Humanities in partnership with the Skirball Foundation Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation LEF Foundation California Coastal Commission Whale Trails Grant Program Audubon Canyon Ranch Marin Community Foundation Nu Lambda Trust Pohaku Fund Fred Gellert Family Foundation Robert Praetzel  BLUE RIBBON ADVISORY COMMITTEE Phyllis Faber (co-founder, Marin Agricultural Land Trust), Doug Ferguson (Mill Valley attorney and long-time activist), Gary Giacomini (former Marin County Supervisor), Martin Griffin (co-founder, Audubon Canyon Ranch), Huey Johnson (founder, Resource Renewal Institute and the Trust for Public Land), Don Neubacher (Superintendent, Point Reyes National Seashore), Brian O’Neill (Superintendent, Golden Gate National Recreation Area) and Martin Rosen (former President, the Trust for Public Land). FRIENDS Robert Berner, Marin Agricultural Land Trust Sue Conley, Cowgirl Creamery Dr. Martin Griffin, Author Ralph Grossi John Hart, Author Charles McGlashan, Marin County Board of Supervisors Elisabeth Ptak, Marin Agricultural Land Trust Michael Straus, Straus Communications  Rural California Broadcasting PBS & NPR affiliate for the North Bay 5850 Labath Ave. Rohnert Park, CA 94928 707.584.2000 Photography ©Kelly+Yamamoto Productions. Photo: Lou Weinert |
September 28, 2025
Ear to the Wild: The Belted Kingfisher - Gustav’s “Mechanical Bird"
In memory of Gustav Hobel. My friend Gustav and I used to live next door to one another on Sonoma Creek. The Belted Kingfishers would fly by, calling, with that ratchety kind of sound that they have in their voice. That’s why he’d call them the “mechanical bird.”
