About the Filmmakers

Ken Marsolais

Ken Marsolais is a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning producer/director who has worked in theater, film and the arts for over 40 years. He has produced such Broadway classics as The Shadow Box, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Long Day’s Journey into Night, starring Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst. Marsolais also directed the opening and closing ceremonies for the 1996 Olympics that took place in Savannah, Georgia. His goal in making The Bullish Farmer is to inspire awareness about the importance of the food we eat, gain support for small farms and help save rural America.

Nancy Vick

Nancy Vick graduated from Cornell University and obtained an MBA from the Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland. Vick joined the New York advertising agency Ammirati & Puris, the creative boutique that created the famous BMW “Ultimate Driving Machine” campaign.

Vick has contributed to the arts, education and human rights in her role as trustee of several nonprofit organizations. She is president emeritus of the American Classical Orchestra and past executive officer of Quill Entertainment. Vick is also a trustee of Video Volunteers of Goa, India, and NYC, a multiple award-winning, social entrepreneurial NGO that recruits and trains marginalized members of Indian society to become change-making community video journalists across India.

Vick hopes The Bullish Farmer will stimulate a vigorous, ongoing dialogue about the state of farming and food in our country.