Joe Yaggi is the Creative Supervisor for Jungle Run Productions. An award-winning filmmaker, he launched his career as a video kayaker on rivers from California to Costa Rica and Alaska to Africa before settling in Indonesia in 1993. Here he has worked as producer, director, cameraman, editor, whitewater consultant and coffee-maker.

With a thirst for challenging projects, Joe drags Jungle Run from the reefs of Papua to the forests of Kalimantan, from tsunami-wracked Aceh to the mountains of Sulawesi. He ushered the organization into a new level of engagement with the series Media in Motion, forged a partnership with Television Trust for the Environment Asia Pacific and sits on the board of Filmmakers For Conservation. Joe pecks at his computer only when he has to, particularly as it presents new opportunities to send JRP to far-flung reaches of the archipelago.

Nadia Astari grew up in Surabaya, where she plotted her career at 14 and pestered her parents until they bought her a camera. At 20, she made her first short film. At 24, her film Trunyan, Scent of the Dead was nominated for best documentary at the Jakarta International Film Festival (JIFFEST) ShortDocs Competition. Nadia's first assignment with Jungle Run was to coordinate an MTV shoot that tackled 30 locations on 7 islands across 4000 kilometers in 2 weeks. Nadia continues to sort logistics while she edits and assistant directs. She refuses to make coffee.

Wil Hemmerle has been with Jungle Run Productions since 1995. Besides spending innumerable hours locked in the post-production cave at Jungle Run, Wil acts as the sound catcher and swing crew in the jungles and cities of the archipelago, hunting the call of the bird of paradise as well as the board of avarice and the poor of disenfranchisement, giving a voice to people. On other fronts, Wil has recently wrapped a feature film shoot in the jungles of LA where he served as Gaffer under Director Kent Faulcon in a film featuring Eric Roberts. The action-thriller Sister's Keeper is scheduled for release in 2006. In 2003 Wil was Gaffer on the controversial film Strange Fruit, shot in Louisiana. The film starred Kent Faulcon and Belinda Talbot and was directed by Fencesitter Film's Kyle Schickner.

Dendy Montgomery, a native of Banda Aceh, began his career as a local radio announcer and soon moved up to report for national TV on TVRI. When Aceh was thrown into a military state of emergency, he strung for Reuters then shot a documentary covering national elections. Politik Teungku aired on private, local and national television, including Metro TV, and also screened at the Jakarta International Film Festival. Dendy next worked as the Aceh correspondent for TV7. At end-2004, he went freelance—and promptly lost his camera in the tsunami. Soon after, Dendy and his wife Raihan partnered with Jungle Run to launch the year-long documentary series Children of Tsunami.

Nur Raihan, from North Sumatra, has written for Gatra magazine (Indonesia's Newsweek), strung for Reuters and reported for the popular news site detik.com. In 2003, she returned to Aceh, where she joined Dendy to direct Politik Teungku, a daring film covering national elections with a local slant. With a eye for detail, Raihan now writes and translates for Children of Tsunami while expecting her first child. Any day now...

Djuna Ivereigh, native to California and exploring in Indonesia for seven years, is a writer and still photographer who swing shifts as a production assistant, assistant director and web wrangler. She's equally happy in the rainforest canopy, where she launched an intiative that put bird poachers to work as bird guides, on a monsoonal passage, where she pens the book Land of Water: Exploring Indonesia by Sea and in the realm of international policymaking, where she wordsmithed the primary outreach document of IUCN's Vth World Parks Congress.