Tamar Bailey, Producer

Tamar Bailey, a pioneer in her own right, has spearheaded the film effort and brought together the people and inspiration necessary to move forward with the documentary. A captain of jumbo jets and a longtime jazz enthusiast, Bailey spent years as an Alaska bush pilot before hiring on with an airfreight carrier and moving to Seattle. She has also been instrumental in the production of two books: Seversen’s Roadhouse: Crossroads of Bristol Bay, Alaska, a historical record of a roadhouse in the Alaskan bush, and Alaska's Women Pilots: Contemporary Portraits, a collection of stories about Alaskan women pilots, one of which is Bailey. As the documentary’s producer, she has taken this project from its original inception to the reality it has become—and now carries it through to its final release.