JOHN FERRY and GRACE DE SOTO BRIEF BIOS

John Ferry, writer, producer, editor, and director, worked in the production of non-fiction films for over four decades since 1977, initially working closely with Academy Award winner Robert Snyder on Reflections: R. Buckminster Fuller, Claudio Arrau: A Life in Music, Ruth Asawa: of Forms and Growth, Willem de Kooning: Artist, The Vatican Collection, Michelangelo: Self-Portrait, Pablo Casals: A Cry for Peace, and Henry Miller: To Paint is to Love Again, among others.

Prior to film work, John was involved in theater, beginning in high school, continuing in college and community theater as an actor and director. His plays in community theater include Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, John Osborn’s Look Back in Anger, Murray Schisgal’s LUV, and Tad Mosel’s Impromtu.

He and his wife, Grace De Soto started LilliMar Pictures. Under that banner he produced and directed, Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart, Contrary Warrior, Makin' It, Taking Alcatraz, In a Small Town and Blood of Our Brothers. He has a M.A. in Cinema, a B.A. in Theater Arts, and attending an acting workshop at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Hollywood. He has been a Santa Barbara resident since 1994.

John is the author of The Horse in the Field, North of Marfa, Rainy Night in Georgia, and A Simple Place.

Grace De Soto, is the Co-Producer and Co-Writer of Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart, her first effort as a producer and writer.  She has since produced and written four other non-fiction features, Contrary Warrior: The Life and Times of Adam Fortunate Eagle, Makin’ It, Taking Alcatraz, and Blood of Our Brothers.

She is the author of two books of short stories: Hey Guy This Is the Butterfly, and Crows On the Line.

Grace attended Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles, and now lives in Santa Barbara, California, with her husband, John Ferry.