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Winfred Rembert

Winfred Rember (1945 - 2021) artist, storyteller, and the subject of All Me grew up in Cuthbert, Georgia. Given away at birth to a great aunt, he spent much of his childhood as a field worker beside her in the cotton and peanut fields. Attendance at a civil rights demonstration got him thrown in jail without charges or a trial. An escape over a year later resulted in a prison sentence, but only after Rembert had survived an attempted lynching. He fell in love with his future wife, Patsy, and with tooling leather, while serving seven years on Georgia chain gangs. After his release, he moved north and settled in New Haven, Connecticut.

It was not until 1995, when he was 50 years old that Rembert began to carve, tool and then dye pictures on leather depicting scenes and themes from African American life in segregated Cuthbert, GA including the chain gangs. His work was exhibited at the Yale University Art Gallery in 2000 and one of his works was acquired by Yale for their permanent collection. Winfred’s first major catalogued one-man exhibition took place in New York City, at the Adelson Galleries in 2010. Director, Vivian Ducat, happened to attend the opening where she met Winfred and after speaking to him for about five minutes, she knew he would make an incredible film subject. It was out of that encounter on April 6, 2010, that All Me the Life and Times of Winfred Rembert was born.

Vivian Ducat, Director and Producer

Vivian Ducat is a BBC-trained director, producer and writer of long-format documentary films for television series on both sides of the Atlantic including the Story of English, Race to Save the Planet, The American Experience “Hawaii’s Last Queen,” narrated by Anna Deveare Smith, ABC News, The Century: America's Time and Court TV's, Crime Stories. All Me is her first feature documentary. Her second feature is a short, Stonefaced about an African American architect and photographer, Robert Arthur King and his obsession with gargoyles. Ducat has also directed and produced short films for the web, for touchscreen kiosks and digital exhibitions, and has executive produced museum exhibition websites for institutions including The Library of Congress, the National Park Service, the New-York Historical Society, and the Museum of the City of New York. When on staff at Columbia University Digital Knowledge Ventures, she worked on a number of large projects on African American history and art.

Mike Culyba, Editor

Michael Culyba is a filmmaker who has been editing documentary films in New York City for over sixteen years. In addition to All Me: The Life & Times of Winfred Rembert, some of his editing credits include Barbara Kopple’s Dixie Chicks: Shut Up & Sing (2006), Gary Hustwit’s Urbanized (2011), Running from Crazy (Dir. Barbara Kopple, 2013), My Own Man, directed by David Sampliner & produced by Edward Norton (2014) and This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous (Dir. Barbara Kopple, 2017). Michael has also been the editor on numerous documentary television series produced by Alex Gibney, Liz Garbus and Ricki Stern for Netflix, Showtime and ESPN. Most recently, Michael produced and directed the feature documentary Keeper of Time, which is slated for release in 2021.
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David Gaynes, Camera

David Gaynes is an accomplished cinematographer, editor and director, working in collaboration with many documentary filmmakers over the past 20 years. Recent credits include cinematography and segment producing for SACRED (2017, WNET/PBS) directed by Academy Award winning director Thomas Lennon, and conceiving, directing, and editing “Kool TV” (2020, YouTube) in collaboration with award-winning animator Patrick Smith, produced by seminal funk artists Kool & The Gang. Feature documentary directorial credits include Next Year Jerusalem (2014, First Run Features), Saving Hubble (2012), and Keeper of the Kohn (2005, SnagFilms).
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Ray Segal, Co-producer

Since the completion of All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert Ray has worked on several more independent films set in the American south that deal with issues of art and racial justice including “Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts” (Kino-Lorber), “100 Years From Mississippi: The Mamie Kirkland Story” and “After Sherman” (POV). He was also an archival producer on the ground-breaking PBS documentary series “Asian Americans” in 2020.
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Mark Urman, Producer

Mark Urman (1952-2019) had an extensive career in the marketing and distribution of some of the most successful and acclaimed independent films of the last two decades. As the head of the US division of the international public relations firm, DDA in the 1990’s, he orchestrated the campaigns for such films as The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, Like Water For Chocolate, The Crying Game, Shine, and Secrets and Lies, and personally represented such filmmakers as Bernardo Bertolucci, Paul Schrader, and Roman Polanski.  As co-president of Lionsgate Releasing, from 1998-2001, he oversaw the release of such hits as American Psycho, The Red Violin, Affliction, Gods and Monsters, and Dogma. In 2001, he co-founded and ran the theatrical division of THINKfilm, where he acquired and distributed such films as Spellbound, The Aristocrats, Half Nelson, and Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead.
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