extendedPLAY inc.

Sharon Mullally and Ann Tegnell founded extendedPLAY inc. in order to collectively pursue media projects outside the quality commercial and documentary production that is their daily diet. They wanted to PLAY. First on their list of projects was the children’s cooking show, GOOEYDUCK CAFÉ. While that project is on the back burner, so to speak, the organization it cooked up is alive and well. extendedPLAY inc. is an entity through which both women have been able to create work with meaning and reach. Work that educates, informs and delights.

Do you want to PLAY?

Ann and Sharon invite you to contact them with proposals, works-in-progress and requests to purchase previous work. Both are experienced teachers and lecturers who welcome the opportunity to pass their experience along.

contact@extendedPLAY.org

Sharon Mullally

is an Emmy Award winning independent producer-director and editor whose work regularly appears on local and national public television. Most recently, Sharon has produced a series of short videos on peace and social justice for the American Friends Service Committee. Sharon’s work as producer/director includes KNEE DEEP with Ann Tegnell; First Person, a feature length documentary about Philadelphia public high school students; What DO You Want? for the Pennsylvania Auto Theft Prevention Authority and Good Shepherd Mediation Program; Fadi Flies a Kite; and Rufus Jones – A Luminous Life with Barbara Attie and winner of a CINE Golden Eagle.

Her most recent editorial work includes Mrs. Goundo’s Daughter, featured in the 2009 Human Rights Watch Festival; the CINE Golden Eagle and UNAFF Stanford Editing Award-winning Rosita; Reunion: A Decade Of Solas concert DVD; and Queen of the Mountain, a portrait of an eccentric American archaeologist working in Turkey in the 1950’s.

Sharon’s commitment to media and women’s issues is rooted in Philadelphia’s first feminist radio show, Learning to Fly. Sharon was a producer for the groundbreaking series broadcast on WHYY-FM. She was the founding director of the Penn Women’s Center before returning to television where she became the first female cinematographer at KYW-TV3. After 10 years at television stations in Philadelphia and Baltimore, Sharon left commercial broadcasting to pursue documentary production.

Sharon has been a board member and workshop leader for the Philadelphia Independent Film & Video Association and an instructor at the Scribe Video Center. Her editorial work has appeared in the SILVERDOCS Film Festival, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, the DoubleTake Documentary Festival, and the Philadelphia Festival of Independents.

Sharon is co-founder of extendedPLAY inc.

Ann Tegnell and Albert Maysles at the CINE 5 on 5 for 5 Pitch Contest
Executive Producer for Discovery Health, Wendy Douglas, looks on at left.

Ann Tegnell

is an Academy Award and Emmy nominated producer-director and editor. She has worked extensively in television, at post-production facilities but it is working as an independent that suits her best.

Ann has four collaborations currently in the works: ¿Dónde Están? The Disappeared Children of El Salvador, with producers Maria Rodriguez and Katherine Pyle co-funded by Latino Public Broadcasting and Sundance Institute; Making Waves with Frances McElroy, looks at access, affordability and diversity in the sport of rowing; The General’s Daughter with Glenn Holsten tells of artist Lily Yeh’s personal journey to China to uncover her father’s past; and STRATHMERE co-produced with Frances McElroy, explores the value and fate of a quirky South Jersey shore town.

Recent short works for Philadelphia arts and non-profit organizations with producer Glenn Holsten include: LACE, for The Design Center at Philadelphia University’s Lace in Translation exhibit; twenty-four 5-minute sketches of the 2007 and 2008 Pew Fellows; spark. a promotional piece for the American Association of Museums; and documentary portraits of The University of Pennsylvania, Merion Mercy Academy and St. Francis de Sales School.

Ann’s independent documentary credits include: Mirror Dance, an ITVS funded Independent Lens program with producer-directors Frances McElroy and Maria T. Rodríguez; Family Gathering, an Academy Award nominated American Experience broadcast co-produced with Lise Yasui; CINE Golden Eagle winner Ballycastle, with Frances McElroy; and KNEE DEEP, the Emmy nominated extendedPLAY inc. production with Sharon Mullally.

Prior to beginning her freelance career, Ann was associate producer / editor for the weekly ABC-WPVI PRIME TIME show, received an MFA in Communications from Temple University and a BA Summa cum laude in Film from San Francisco State University. Ann teaches regularly at the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia and contributes many hours to mentoring young media makers. She is a founding member of The Philadelphia Independent Film & Video Association and served on the Executive Board.

Ann is co-founder of extendedPLAY inc.