DETERMINED

Therese Barry-Tanner has been a participant in the WRAP study for more than fifteen years. Therese understands Alzheimer’s disease at an intimate level. She assisted her father in caring for her mother with the disease. Later she advocated for her mother fiercely at a nursing home —her mother was unable to speak for herself. Therese lost her mother to Alzheimer’s disease in November of 2008. DETERMINED began as Therese’s idea in 2011. Therese hopes that DETERMINED will bring the audience through the emotional journey and difficult decisions that are made when a loved one lives with or dies from Alzheimer’s disease. She also hopes the film will share the experience of being a human research subject, and that it will offer an inside look at the people who are working to find a cure. Prior to producing, Therese worked in healthcare, with over 30 years in program and project management, most recently specializing in healthcare reform and physician quality assurance at a Fortune 500 company.  

Eileen Littig is an independent producer and former Director of NE Wisconsin In-School Telecommunications. With Wisconsin Public Television, she produced social issues programming and has been recognized with two Midwest Emmys – both for stories about teenage girls: Beyond the Butterfly and The Discovery of Dawn. She produced numerous creative and important programs for youth, including Sexual Orientation: Between the Labels. which earned a Gold Medal from the CPB. Littig was Co-Producer for the documentary Do Not Go Gently, narrated by Walter Cronkite. The film received a Gold World Medal in Humanities from the New York Film and Video Festivals and a National Media Award from the American Society on Aging. Littig serves on the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board and is a community activist.

Jones was most recently a sound recordist for Dave Chapelle: Live in Real Life directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, which debuted at Radio City Music Hall at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2021. She was also on the sound team for Contemporary Color, a visual and audio extravaganza by the Ross Brothers which premiered at Tribeca in 2016. Jones was the Cincinnati sound engineer for The New Black by Yoruba Richen (Independent Lens/PBS), and she contributed to the 2020 Oscar-winning feature documentary, American Factory. Another recent project was sound recording and mixing for Small Business Shorts: Real Estate, Real Impact, a Veena Rao short film commissioned by Vimeo. She is proud of her work on the complicated sound design of the ongoing anthology documentary Sound Spring by Catalina Alvarez. Jones is a graduate of Wright State University’s Motion Picture Program and is a news broadcast director at WBDT and WDTN-TV in Dayton. She flexes her artistic muscles as a singer and burlesque performer as well! 

Anderegg is a composer and sound designer who has worked on film and television projects with producers and directors including Laura Poitras, Jose Vargas, Seth Skundrick, Stephen Maing, Susan Werbe, and Miao Wang. Highlights include: 102 Minutes That Changed America – Siskel Jacobs Productions documentary about the events of 9/11, winner of four Primetime Emmy awards and the most watched special ever on the History Channel; The Price of Gold – Nanette Burstein’s ESPN 30 for 30 documentary about Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan; and Crime + Punishment by Stephen Maing.

Karen was Associate Producer and Outreach Coordinator for Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s A Lion in the House, an Emmy Award-winning documentary and national outreach project (Independent Lens/PBS). Durgans was a field researcher for the U.S. Financial Diaries Project, a partnership between NYU Wagner’s Financial Access Initiative and the Center for Financial Services Innovation. She provided research and production support for “American International Health Alliance: Partners in Health,” Season 10 of the award-winning PBS series The Visionaries profiling international sister-city partnerships in Armavir, Armenia and Galveston, Texas. Karen cared for both her stepfather and mother during her family’s journey with dementia. She works as a therapist in private practice with Compass Point Counseling Services.

Jean worked as an archives assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay library for 20 years before making a career change. In addition to working on this film, she was recently a caregiver for the elderly and those with disabilities, including Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Jean was also the administrative assistant for the Green Bay Area Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and Chair of the Sunday Services committee. She is a certified mandala facilitator in the tradition of Dr. Rajita Sivananda (Judith Cornell), which involved 108 hours of leading workshops. Currently she works as a freelance professional resume writer and transcriptionist.