THIRD STONE PRODUCTIONS takes on issues of global social significance, producing documentary films combining solid storytelling, beautiful visuals, thorough research, stunning archive footage, and creative approaches to editing and sound.

We seek to help to affect change, to open some eyes in a world that has spun out of control, that is consuming itself. We seek to play a role in evolving a new type of globalization: one based not on money and profit, but on the sharing of ideas and knowledge across geographic and cultural borders, on the creation of a just and equitable and sustainable global society.

IN WHOSE INTEREST? spans 50 years of the motives and effects of US foreign policy and has had a direct impact on hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, especially young people within the United States through its distribution by Bullfrog Films (US and Canada) and Journeyman Pictures (UK and rest of world) to schools, libraries, universities, and NGOs, as well as its inclusion in nine international film festivals.

FOOD ON EARTH is the next step in a series of films that looks at the human effects of the dominant forms of a globalized economy—in this case its effects on food and agriculture.

staff bios:
david kaplowitz
madlyn ray-jones

david kaplowitz is a freelance journalist with a Master’s degree from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. His most recent documentary film, IN WHOSE INTEREST? is a journey through the past 60 years of U.S foreign policy. The film is distributed worldwide by Bullfrog Films (U.S. and Canada) and Journeyman Pictures (rest of the world). It has also aired on Free Speech TV in the US and screened at the Amnesty International Film Festival in West Hollywood, Salt Lake City, Seattle, and Vancouver, the United Nations Association Film Festival in San Francisco, the 2003 Images Nouveau du Monde Film Festival in Quebec City, and the 2003 Vermont International Film Festival, in addition to numerous screenings around the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The film is also an official selection for the 2004 World Social Forum Film Festival in Mumbai, India.

Other documentary film work includes production of Hip Hop Cubano, a 13-minute piece on hip hop music in Cuba, and camera work and editing on Merry-Go-Round, a 20-minute ethnographic film focusing on race relations on a housing project in North London.

In addition, he has produced several news pieces on a variety of subjects, including U.S.-Navy produced toxic waste at the Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco and its effects on the outlying community and Alameda’s publicly owned power system.

David also has significant experience in radio, having worked at the BBC in London in international news, producing mostly American stories on the death penalty debate, U.S.-military toxic waste around the globe, U.S. media critiques, missile defense, genetic engineering, and many other topics. David has done audio editing on several CDs of essays by Death Row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, and a 50-minute radio documentary on Earth First! Activist Judi Bari. He has also done audio engineering and editing on dozens of San Francisco Bay Area music acts, and sound design and composition for film and theater.

David did his undergraduate study at the University of Virginia with a double major in psychology and music. As one of the first students at the Virginia Center for Computer Music, David received his music degree with high distinction, focussing on electronic music and composition.
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david kaplowitz filmography

IN WHOSE INTEREST? (Director, producer, editor, 2002)
distributed by:
Bullfrog Films (US/CAN), Journeyman Pictures (UK/EUR/ASIA)
festivals:
2004 World Social Forum Film Festival, Mumbai, India
2003 White Horse Film Festival
2003 Vermont International Film Festival
2003 Amnesty International Film Festival (Vancouver, Seattle, Salt Lake City, West Hollywood)
2003 Images du Nouveau Monde Festival, Quebec City, Canada
2002 United Nations Association Film Festival, Stanford, California

Indiana Aria (Principal sound and additional camera, 2002)

Pinned (Principal sound, additional camera, 2002)

Afghan Elvis (Location sound, 2002)

Merry-Go-Round (Camera & editing, 2001)

Hip-Hop Cubano (Co-producer, editor, 2001)

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madlyn ray-jones played a pivotal role in the production of the Director’s previous film IN WHOSE INTEREST? as associate producer. She received an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmith’s University in London in 2002, producing her film MERRY GO ROUND, a look at gender and race relations on a housing project in North London. Her anthropology background complements the journalistic background of the director. Madlyn has assisted with archive and historical research, interview setup and camera, conceptualization and editing. She has also worked as a production assistant for Karen Everett, a San-Francisco based documentary filmmaker. Madlyn teaches Hatha Yoga, and works with children with disabilities. back to top