Jonathan Parker
Director, Writer, Producer, Music Supervisor
is a writer, director, producer, musician and composer who is currently based in San Rafael, California. Parker’s first feature film, Bartleby, which he also scored, was the opening night selection at the New Directors/New Films Festival at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Deauville. Starring David Paymer, Crispin Glover and Glenne Headly, Bartleby was an official selection at SXSW as well as the Seattle, Munich, Jerusalem and Karlovy Vary film festivals.
Parker’s film (Untitled), starring Adam Goldberg and Marley Shelton, won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Cinema Choice Award at the Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival as well as Best American Film at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. The Architect, starring Parker Posey and Eric McCormack, made its world premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival and was an official selection at the Vancouver, Seoul, Rio de Janeiro, Houston and Mill Valley film festivals.
Marlo McKenzie
Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
believes that story can change the world, and to create a better world we must first be able to imagine it. She produced Butterfly Town, USA and Standing on Sacred Ground. McKenzie is also the director of My Secret Country, a documentary about children who invent imaginary friends and worlds, which has just completed post-production.
McKenzie lived several lives before finding a home as a producer and director in San Francisco. The Detroit native spent time in Europe, working in theater in Germany and studying in France. In Australia, McKenzie co-founded a video production company that serves underserved youth.
Lars Ulrich
Producer
is a founding member of Metallica. He is passionate about independent film and devoted to his adopted home of San Francisco. Ulrich’s love for Jonathan Parker’s film (Untitled) led him to form a creative relationship with the director. They realized their mutual interest by partnering together on this documentary.
Vincent Palomino
Producer
is a producer and director best known for serving as key grip on a number of major motion pictures including The Collector (2009), Grindhouse (2007), Lovely & Amazing (2001) and Suicide Kings (1997). Palomino was also the line producer on The Collector. He recently won an Independent Short Award for producing Enemy No More, which also received a Venice Short Film Award nomination. Palomino is currently in production on the feature I Love You?, a romantic dramedy starring Vanessa Angel that he is both directing and producing.
Rick Morse
Executive Producer
has decades of experience as a producer and an entertainment attorney. For the last several years Morse has served as senior VP of business and legal affairs for Radar Pictures, the successor company to Interscope Communications. The original company is known for myriad critically acclaimed box-office successes such as The Last Samurai, Mr. Holland’s Opus and Cocktail. Several franchises extended into remakes or sequels during Morse’s tenure, including the highly successful Jumanji reboot.
Jennifer J. Mayer
Editor
is a gifted editor with an intuitive sense of visual storytelling. Mayer finds the diamonds in the rough of a filmmaker’s material and shapes them into a fast-paced narrative. She’s edited numerous projects across documentary and fiction, winning numerous awards for her work. Most recently, Mayer’s documentary We Said No! No! A Story of Civil Disobedience aired on PBS in 2023. Her prior credits include the series “The Night That Didn’t End” (2018) and The Wave I Ride (2015).
Jack Douglas
Music Producer
is a Grammy Award®-winning record producer known for his work with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Patti Smith, Cheap Trick and the New York Dolls, among other rock artists of the 1970s and 1980s. Most notably, Douglas produced three highly successful albums for Aerosmith.
Jen Petrucelli
Archival Producer
has had the honor of working on award-winning documentaries exploring a wide range of social and political topics. Petrucelli’s films have aired on public television, network television and Netflix, screened at Sundance and festivals worldwide, and garnered three FOCAL Awards for their use of archival footage. Her credits include Double Victory: The Tuskegee Airmen at War (2012), Ahead of the Curve (2020) and The Way I See It (2020).
Richard Beggs
Sound Mix Consultant
won an Academy Award® for Best Sound for his work on the Oscar®-winning film Apocalypse Now. Beggs has worked on more than 60 films since 1979, including Jonathan Parker’s films (Untitled) and The Architect. His more recent credits include Children of Men, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Somewhere, The Beguiled and Mad God.
Karen Everett
Story Editor
is a documentary story consultant and award-winning filmmaker. She has directed and produced six documentaries, including the PBS biography “I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs” and “American Visionary: The Story of Barbara Marx Hubbard.” Everett served as story consultant on the Emmy Award®-nominated HBO documentary “50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus” and the Emmy-nominated series “The Future Starts Here.” Everett taught editing for 18 years at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and is the author of the book Documentary Editing.
Wednesday Martin
Cultural Critc, Author
has worked as a writer and social researcher in New York City for over two decades. Her memoir Primates of Park Avenue, an instant No. 1 New York Times bestseller, is a hilarious and insightful look into the exotic world of Manhattan motherhood. Martin’s book Stepmonster, a finalist for the prestigious Books for a Better Life Award, is widely considered a go-to source for stepmothers, adult stepchildren, therapists and others who seek a uniquely candid, interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and comprehensive look at the topic. Martin is also the author of Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free.
Sarah Thornton
Sociologist of Culture, Author
writes about art, design and people. Formerly the chief art-market correspondent for The Economist, Thornton is the author of three critically acclaimed books, including 2008’s Seven Days in the Art World. A Canadian who went to the U.K. on a Commonwealth Scholarship, Thornton was once hailed as “Britain’s hippest academic.” Now based in San Francisco, she is better known as “the Jane Goodall of the art world.” Thornton’s newest book, Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us About Breasts, is coming out this year.
Florence Williams
Science Journalist, Author, Podcaster
is a contributing editor at Outside magazine and a freelance writer for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, The New York Review of Books and numerous other publications. Williams’ latest book, Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey, won the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing. Previously, her book Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History (2012, W.W. Norton) received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in science and technology and the 2013 Audie for general nonfiction. It was also named a notable book of 2012 by The New York Times.
Judy Mamou
Former Exotic Dancer
was well-known for performing at nightclubs in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco. Mamou’s acts included fire, a monkey and a boa constrictor. She is the author of The Other Woman, her intimate story of coming of age in the ’60s, the path she took to nightclub life and the events that motivated her to leave it
Benita Mattioli
Author
grew up in a small Mormon town in Northern Utah. At age 20 she became a flight attendant and met Pete Mattioli on a vacation trip to Waikiki Beach. They have been together ever since. She has come to know most of the fascinating characters she writes about in her debut book Three Nights at the Condor, the captivating true story of how a tiny San Francisco bar was transformed into the first – and then the most famous – topless nightclub in history, becoming a key player in the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
Jerry Martini
Musician
is best known for being the saxophonist for legendary funk band Sly and the Family Stone. Martini began performing with the band at its inception in 1967 and continues to play with them today. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
John Burton
Former U.S. Congressman, Former Bartender
is an American politician who served in both the California State Assembly and the United States House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic Party, Burton represented California’s 5th and 6th congressional districts. He was born in San Francisco and before beginning his political career in the mid-’60s Burton was a North Beach bartender.
Pete Mattioli
Former Condor Club Owner
owned the Condor Club with Gino Del Prete during its rise to the international spotlight. After retiring from the Condor Mattioli went into the horse business, where he thrived due to the champion genes of his horse Cal Bar, described by The Quarter Horse Journal as “Joe Montana, Magic Johnson and Mozart all rolled into one.” He is a former Equus Honoree and champion at cutting horses who led the formation of the Horse Council in Sonoma County.
Cast & Crew
Lars Ulrich (Producer) is a founding member of Metallica. He is passionate about independent film and devoted to his adopted home of San Francisco. Ulrich’s love for Jonathan Parker’s film (Untitled) led him to form a creative relationship with the director. They realized their mutual interest by partnering together on this documentary.
Vincent Palomino (Producer) is a producer and director best known for serving as key grip on a number of major motion pictures including The Collector (2009), Grindhouse (2007), Lovely & Amazing (2001) and Suicide Kings (1997). Palomino was also the line producer on The Collector. He recently won an Independent Short Award for producing Enemy No More, which also received a Venice Short Film Award nomination. Palomino is currently in production on the feature I Love You?, a romantic dramedy starring Vanessa Angel that he is both directing and producing.
Rick Morse (Executive Producer) has decades of experience as a producer and an entertainment attorney. For the last several years Morse has served as senior VP of business and legal affairs for Radar Pictures, the successor company to Interscope Communications. The original company is known for myriad critically acclaimed box-office successes such as The Last Samurai, Mr. Holland’s Opus and Cocktail. Several franchises extended into remakes or sequels during Morse’s tenure, including the highly successful Jumanji reboot.
SF Timeline
San Francisco has been at the center of innovation, culture, and counter-culture since the mid-1800s. And Carol Doda has been a significant force in that, as well.
Sourdough bread is said to have first been made in San Francisco in 1849, and is often associated with the prospectors who flocked to the area starting the same year in search of their fortunes.
Strauss creates the first pair of denim jeans.
At 05:12 on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, San Francisco was struck by a major earthquake, estimated to be 7.9 magnitude.
The Golden Gate Bridge opens on May 27, 1937, linking San Francisco Bay to Marin County.
Rudi Geinrich designs the Monokini.
In 1964, Doda makes international news by dancing topless at San Francisco's Condor Club.
The second convention ever held on the west coast (the first was also held in SF), Goldwater conservatives clashed with Rockefeller moderates.
Music pioneer promoter Bill Graham brings home-grown acts like The Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Santana, Janis Joplin (with Big Brother and the Holding Company) to a wider audience.
Founded October 1966 in Oakland, California.
In the summer of 1967, as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury.
Margaret Jean "Margo" St. James was an American sex worker and sex-positive feminist. In San Francisco, she founded COYOTE, an organization advocating for sex workers.
The Bay Area becomes the birthplace for countless technology companies shaping our modern world.
C'mon everybody, c'mon in Bobby's gonna show you how to do the swim. Kinda like The Monkey, kinda like The Twist Pretend you're in the water and you go like this Now baby, Swim Baby, do The Swim
C'mon And Swim
Carol rose to fame when she go-go danced “The Swim” on top a piano at the Condor Club, with music performed by Bobby Freeman. The song, “C’mon And Swim”, was co-written by Sly Stone.
The Monokini
Gernreich sold about 3,000 suits. The suit went on sale in San Francisco on June 19, 1964. Carol Doda was the first to publicly perform while wearing it at the Condor.
The iconic Rudi Gernreich one piece design has now been faithfully reissued and is true to the freedom of movement of the original.
