Paul Bonesteel - Producer, Director, Writer

The Great American Quilt Revival is Paul Bonesteel’s ninth full-length documentary film. While he had long been experimenting with his parent’s super8 film camera, Paul officially began his career in 1985 with N.C. Public Television while in college, graduating from North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

Paul traveled to the Soviet Union to direct, If The People Will Lead, captured a biography of a folk singer in Travels With Claude, rafted through Alaskan wilderness to shoot Caribou Bones, and revealed a complex photographer in the midst of the Olympic Games in Dreams and Despair.

Other recent films include The Mystery of George Masa, the biography of a mysterious Japanese photographer in the Appalachian Mountains and Folkmoot USA, the story of the largest international folk dance festival in the world.

Bonesteel Films has several documentary projects now in development, most notably a film on American poet/icon Carl Sandburg.

Georgia Bonesteel - Executive Producer, Narrator

For 30 years Georgia Bonesteel has been a leader in the quilt world. As the creator and host of “Lap Quilting”, she has shared her enthusiasm and love of quilting on Public Television since 1979, and has authored eight books. A longtime seamstress, Georgia attended Iowa State University and

graduated from Northwestern University. While living in New Orleans in 1970, Georgia made quilted patchwork evening bags from necktie scraps and sold them in the French Quarter.

After moving to North Carolina she became interested in full size quilts and began teaching at Blue Ridge Community College. Soon, her mother suggested she share her teaching skills on television, and the rest is history.

Georgia served as president of International Quilt Association and in 2002 was presented the Silver Star Award at the Houston Festival. In July of 2003 she was inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame in Marion, Indiana.

Today, Georgia, while a grandmother eight, she still follows her love of perpetuating the art of quilt making through teaching, presenting workshops, slide lectures, demonstrations and judging of quilt shows. For more information about Georgia Bonesteel visit her website.