Rainlight Films

About Us

Rainlight Films

     Documentary filmmakers Jim Likowski and Bonnie

Thompson formed Rainlight Films in 1980, with the

production of  Undermining the Great Depression:

Backyard Gold in Jacksonville, Oregon -- an oral history

documentary funded by a National Endowment for the

Humanities Youthgrant.  

     Over the years, our documentaries have received

two national PBS and ten regional television broadcasts,

as well as six national and fourteen regional festival

awards, including a CINE Eagle and Best Digital

Cinematography in a High Definition Film at

HD Fest/Los Angeles 2001. 

     Likowski also works as a Foley Sound Editor for

movies (Pirates of the Caribbean, Chronicles of Narnia,

National Treasure, Iron Man), and Thompson works

as a Quality Consultant on digital mastering for film

and television.  Both are members of the Motion

Picture Editors Guild of Hollywood, California.

     Likowski and Thompson both have graduate degrees

in Film Production and Cinema Studies from the

University of Iowa. 

     Thompson is currently editing A Fire In Water,

an HD documentary about the Pacific Northwest's

endangered wild salmon.

Jim Likowski & Bonnie Thompson
Jim Likowski with HD Camera
Bonnie Thompson editing