Speaking in Tongues: The History of Language: Key Creative Bios CHRISTENE BROWNE, SYNCOPATED PRODUCTIONS INC., Director/Producer Christene Browne, originally from the island of St. Kitts in the West Indies is an award winning filmmaker who has been working as a producer and director for over 15 years. Her award winning film, "Them That's Not" was the fourth film in the National Film Board of Canada's Feminization of Poverty series.  "Another Planet" (1999) marked her debut as a feature filmmaker. As the result of making” Another Planet", Browne became the first Black woman to direct and write a dramatic feature film in Canada. Her other documentaries include; ”A Way Out", ”No Choice",  " Jodie Drake: Blues in my Bread" done for the CBC's Adrienne Clarkson Presents show and the much acclaimed Jazz story “Brothers in Music". Her experience in the film and television industry is broad based. In addition to producing, directing, writing and researching she has also acted as film programmer, curator and media arts instructor. Browne's films have been screened, broadcast and distributed all over the world. KEY INTERVIEWS LYLE CAMPBELL   Utah University     Languages of the Americas LUIGI LUCA CAVALLI-SFORZA  Stanford University Genetics  NOAM CHOMSKY    MIT Linguistics   PETER T. DANIELS    Independent Scholar Writing systems  MICHEL DEGRAFF  MIT Creoles  THOMAS ECCARDT Independent Scholar Esperanto  MURRAY GELL-MANN Santa Fe Institute Nobel Prize in Physics LARRY HYMAN UC Berkeley African Languages BRIAN JOSEPH Ohio State University  Historical Linguistics JAY JASANOFF  Harvard University European Languages RICHARD KLEIN Stanford University Anthropology Peter Ladefoged UCLA Endangered Languages    PHILLIP LIEBERMAN Brown University Evolution of language HUA LIN University of Victoria Chinese DIANE MASSAM University of Toronto Languages of Oceania