TESSA M. SWIGART Tessa graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 2001 with a degree in Music and Community Studies. After tromping around the globe a bit, teaching English in China and Japan, singing music in Peru and Bolivia, and conducting AIDS outreach in Ghana for her under-graduate degree, she settled into production and post-production work in San Francisco. For the last two years she has worked producing, writing, and editing various independent projects, using Final Cut Pro and Pro Tools. Tessa's most recent projects include Sound Recordist and composer for Freak, Sound Recordist for Don't Tell and for a documentary on NASA. She also composes music and sings with Sabela, a music ensemble featuring international folk songs. She has now taken on her directorial debut with the documentary currently in production, Pirate Nation. NEXT >> << ABOUT US <<< HOME