SILVERDOCS | Conference 2007

Bios

Nancy Abraham: Nancy Abraham is vice president of documentary programming for Home Box Office (HBO). She is responsible for the development and production of HBO documentary films and Cinemax REEL LIFE programs that have garnered numerous awards including Primetime Emmy Awards, News ... More...

Claire Aguilar: CLAIRE AGUILAR is vice president of Programming at the Independent Television Service (ITVS), where she oversees all aspects of program initiatives, including programming strategy, funding calls, peer panel review and funding recommendations. She commissions programming with US independent producers and ... More...

Anja Al-Erhayem: Anja Al Erhayem is co-director of BACK TO BAGHDAD, a film about daily life under Saddam Hussein, and the sequel DANGEROUS FREEDOM, about life just after Hussein. In 2006, Al Erhayam directed and hosted six documentary and travel shows in ... More...

Macky Alston: Macky Alston’s award-winning documentary films include THE KILLER WITHIN, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and will air on the Discovery Channel in 2007, and QUESTIONING FAITH which aired on HBO/Cinemax in 2002. FAMILY NAME premiered at the ... More...

Laura Annalora: Laura Annalora joined NGCI in August 2006. As manager of Development and Production for National Geographic Channels International (NGCI), Annalora is responsible for reviewing and developing story pitches and proposals for global programming. She serves as the primary Development Executive ... More...

Andrea Asch: Andrea Asch was born in 1977, in Bucharest, Romania. She is married and, since 2003, the mother of one child. In 1998, she enrolled at the Munich Film School’s Department of Documentary and TV-Journalism. She attended the BBC School for ... More...

Eric Asch: Eric Asch was born in Lawrence, Kansas, USA in 1971. He is married and since 2003 father of one child. In 1998, he enrolled at the Munich Film School in the Department of Documentary and TV-Journalism. He has worked as ... More...

May Lin Au Yong: May Lin Au Yong is the director of Steadfast Films and a graduate documentary film student at Stanford University. Prior to this she was a reporter & current affairs producer for Channel News Asia, headquartered in Singapore. Her work has ... More...

Patricia Aufderheide: Patricia Aufderheide is a professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, DC, and the director of the Center for Social Media there.She is the author of, among others, Documentary: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2007), The ... More...

Orlando Bagwell: Orlando Bagwell joined the Ford Foundation in February 2004 as the new media production program officer in the media, arts and culture unit, in the knowledge, creativity and freedom program. For over 25 years Bagwell has worked as an independent ... More...

Hazel Baillie: Hazel Baillie was born in Dundee, Scotland in 1982. A recent graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, she received a BA Honours degree in Film and Television studies and spent four months studying film and animation at Rhode Island School ... More...

Glenn Baker: Glenn Baker is a writer-producer with more than 40 documentaries broadcast on PBS exploring global security issues. He was senior producer for FOREIGN EXCHANGE WITH FAREED ZAKARIA, a weekly PBS international affairs program, and executive producer for Azimuth Media for ... More...

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Jéhu Bikoumou: Jéhu Olivier Bikoumou was born in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. He was studying for a degree in electronic engineering when he left school for a career as a musician and actor touring Africa and Europe. Since 1988 he has worked ... More...

Tomasz Blachnicki: Tomasz studied cultural studies, film and television productino at Kieslowski Faculty of Radio and Television in the Czech Republic. He is the director of several documentary films (PARENTS NEED TO HIT, GUARDS?, NO RULES) and is the co-director of the ... More...

Doug Block: DOUG BLOCK is a New York-based documentary director, producer and cameraman. His most recent film, 51 BIRCH STREET, was named one of the top 10 films of 2006 by The New York Times and one of the top documentaries of ... More...

Keith Bodner: Keith Bodner is a Director/Editor at Pixel Jones Productions in Chicago. He has over 20 years of experience in production, marketing and creating media content including video, film, graphics, audio and streaming media. Keith’s range of expertise is broadened by ... More...

John Boland: John Boland joined PBS in 2006 as the organization’s first Chief Content Officer. Mr. Boland is responsible for television programming, new media, education and promotion. He oversees the delivery of PBS’ content to multiple platforms, including television, Internet, and video ... More...

Liz Brach: Liz Brach serves as Director of Development for Discovery Channel. Bringing over 18 years experience as a producer and writer, she is fully versed in all aspects of series production, from concept development to air. Liz has credits on numerous ... More...

Yoni Brook: Yoni Brook is an independent documentary producer and photojournalist who has worked at The New York Times and The Washington Post. He has directed and served as a cinematographer on numerous documentary and short films. Brook's photography has received the ... More...

Jim Brown: Jim Brown is a Three-time Emmy Award®—winning producer/director responsible for some of the most popular and critically acclaimed programs on American music in the last three decades. PETE SEEGER: POWER OF SONG is Brown’s fourth documentary feature. His previous films ... More...

Clark Bunting: Clark Bunting, a veteran of more than 20 years at Discovery Communications, was named president, Discovery Studios in February 2007 where he oversees the work of a unit charged with creating theatrical documentaries and original, high quality, multiplatform content for ... More...

Michael Burns: Michael Burns had a hand in the creation of The Documentary Channel out of Toronto in 2001. He is to this day its Director of Programming and is in charge of all content. Burns began his entertainment career with Los ... More...

Gillian Caldwell: Law Scholar, Gillian Caldwell is the executive director of WITNESS. WITNESS empowers human rights defenders around the world to use video as a tool to shine a light on those most affected by human rights violations, and to transform personal ... More...

Almudena Carracedo: Almudena Carracedo trained in film production in Madrid and Paris and worked as a television director in Spain, directing programs for broadcast on Canal+. In 2000, she came to the US as an international scholar to work on her doctoral ... More...

Bryan Carter: Bryan Carter is an associate professor of literature at the University of Central Missouri. He specializes in African-American literature of the 20th century with a primary focus on the Harlem Renaissance and a secondary emphasis on visual culture. He has ... More...

Brian Cassidy: Brian Cassidy (1977, USA) and Melanie Shatzky (1976, Canada) met in 2004 while pursuing MFAs at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and began collaborating on fiction and documentary films. Their work has screened at the Sundance ... More...

Gwendolen Cates: Gwendolen Cates is a distinguished photographer, journalist and author whose photography has graced the pages and covers of Rolling Stone, Parade, and People Magazine. Her book on Native America, Indian Country, was acclaimed nationally and featured on Oprah. The daughter ... More...

Weijun Chen: Weijun Chen is a documentary director and producer living in Wuhan, Central China. After graduating in Journalism from the Sichuan University in 1992 he joined the documentary production department of the Wuhan regional TV station. His first film, MY LIFE ... More...

Steve Cheskin: Steve Cheskin is senior vice president of programming for WE, responsible for program development, production, scheduling, acquisitions, packaging and operations. Since he joined the network full-time in March 2005, original programming has increased dramatically, leading to a 50% rise in ... More...

Katy Chevigny: Katy Chevigny is an award-winning filmmaker and cofounder of Arts Engine, Inc. In 2004, Chevigny co-directed DEADLINE with Kirsten Johnson, which premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. DEADLINE was broadcast to over 6 million on NBC, nominated for an ... More...

Cynthia Close: Since 1993 Cynthia Close has been the Executive Director and currently is acting President of Documentary Educational Resources, (DER) a Watertown Massachusetts based non-profit film and video production/distribution company founded in 1968. DER distributes over 700 titles worldwide. Cynthia serves ... More...

Jem Cohen: Jem Cohen Jem Cohen has been a New York-based filmmaker for over 20 years, collecting street footage, portraits and sounds to create projects that defy categorization. Cohen’s feature CHAIN premiered at the Berlinale and was broadcast on Arte/ZDF. BENJAMIN SMOKE, ... More...

Shahar Cohen & Halil Efrat: Shahar Cohen and Halil Efrat were born in Israel in 1968 and graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School in Jerusalem. Their collaboration, SOUVENIRS, won Best Documentary in DocAviv 2006, with Cohen as director/ writer and Efrat as ... More...

Penny Costello: Penny Costello, Television Manager, NAPT, is a producer and project manager. She began her career in live concert, special event and video production. She came to public broadcasting as a Special Event Coordinator for Nebraska Public Radio Network in 1996, ... More...

Marie-France Côté: Marie-france Côté is Executive-Director of The greencodeproject for the Media Industries, a Canadian-based international non-profit, and an important connecting meta-link in the world effort to green the screen industries. The greencodeproject is a set of voluntary, environmentally-friendly guidelines, standards, co-actions, ... More...

Mark Craig: MARK CRAIG graduated from De Montfort University in Leicester with an honours degree in Graphic Design. He worked for BBC News & Current Affairs and then spent several years at Channel 4 designing programme title sequences & channel identities, branding ... More...

Heather Croall: Heather Croall has been a documentary producer and festivals director since 1992. Croall was the director of the Australian International Documentary Conference from 2003 to 2006 and now lives in the UK, where she is the Director of the Sheffield ... More...

Daniel Cross: Daniel Cross is the founding owner of EyeSteelFilm, which is currently launching, with the NFB, the feature documentary UP THE YANGTZE. Cross’s award-winning documentaries include SPIT: SQUEEGEE PUNKS IN TRAFFIC and THE STREET: A FILM WITH THE HOMELESS. His film ... More...

James Crump: James Crump was formerly founding director of Arena Editions, a leading publisher of photography books, where he acquired, edited and published titles with leading contemporary and historical figures in the medium. He holds a PhD in art history from the ... More...

Maryanne Culpepper: As senior vice president, Editorial Development at National Geographic Television & Film (NGT&F), Maryanne Culpepper oversees story development for all NGT&F programming, including the National Geographic Specials and limited series on PBS, and programming for the National Geographic Channel and ... More...

Kevin Dando: Kevin Dando is PBS's director of education & online communications, and oversees the communications, marketing, promotion and media relations for PBS's new media and online ventures, as well as PBS's formal education services. In the area of new media, Dando ... More...

Hélène De Crécy: Hélène De Crécy obtained a diploma in sexology and public health after studying philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Fascinated by writing and film, she continued her hospital work while devoting herself to writing and directing her own films, notably ... More...

Raúl De la Fuente: Raúl De la Fuente, a graduate of the University of Navarra, has worked as a screenwriter, director of photography and director on video clips and documentaries. His first projects celebrated musicians, as in 373 AÑOS DE SON, a profile of ... More...

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Jim Deigan: Jim Deigan is a 20-year veteran in the region’s video & computer graphics marketplace, having worked for both Avid Technology & Avid resellers over the past 10 of those years, preceded by a position of VP-Sales/Marketing for one of the ... More...

Jonathan Demme: Jonathan Demme’s trademark empathy and humanism were originally channeled into veterinary science. After dropping out of the University of Florida at Gainesville, he parlayed his passion for movies first into a career writing critiques for smalltown newspapers and then into ... More...

Kelly DeVine: Kelly DeVine worked in acquisitions for the Independent Film Channel (IFC) for seven years, tracking, screening and acquiring narrative and documentary shorts and features. She supported IFC Productions, IFC Originals and IFC Films, known for TOUCHING THE VOID, METALLICA, SOME ... More...

Greg Diefenbach: Greg Diefenbach, an award-winning producer, was named senior vice president of Television programming for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the fall of 2006. Prior to joining CPB, Diefenbach was senior vice president of production and development for the Disney/ABC ... More...

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Shimon Dotan: Shimon Dotan was born in Romania in 1949 and moved to Israel in 1959. He grew up in an agricultural cooperative, served five years in the Israeli military, and received his BFA from Tel Aviv University, where his student films ... More...

Deborah Drisdell: Deborah Drisdell possesses more than 20 years of professional experience related to various aspects of both the private and public sectors of the Canadian film and television industry and is regarded as an industry expert in the field of co-production ... More...

Doris Dörrie: Doris Dörrie was born in 1955 in Hanover, Germany. After studying acting, philosophy and psychology in the US, she studied at Munich’s Academy of Television & Film, where she is an instructor today. In addition to directing, she is a ... More...

G.J. Echternkamp: G.J. Echternkamp is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and actor who has appeared in a variety of TV shows, films and national commercials. FRANK AND CINDY is his first feature-length project. Ironically, G.J. is currently starring in IFC’s new webseries GETTING ... More...

Halil Efrat & Shahar Cohen: Halil Efrat and Shahar Cohen were born in Israel in 1968 and graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School in Jerusalem. Their collaboration, SOUVENIRS, won Best Documentary in DocAviv 2006, with Cohen as director/writer and Efrat as director/editor. ... More...

Jesse Epstein: Jesse Epstein, cinematographer/DP, director, print shipper, and producer, received an MA in documentary film from NYU. She has directed and produced documentary projects both nationally and internationally. Her documentary film WET DREAMS AND FALSE IMAGES, about media manipulation and body ... More...

Charles Ferguson: Charles Ferguson received his PhD in political science from MIT and has since been a visiting scholar there and at UC Berkeley. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a director of the French-American Foundation, and CEO ... More...

Antonio Ferrera: Antonio Ferrera has produced and co-directed WITH THE FILMMAKER: PORTRAITS BY ALBERT MAYSLES and codirected and shot VOICES OF CABRINI, following the redevelopment of Chicago’s Cabrini Green housing project and the ensuing effects of displacement on the African-American community. More...

Leslie Fields-Cruz: Leslie Fields-Cruz is the Director of Programming at the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC). She has been with NBPC for five years managing its funding initiatives and public television station relations activities, and supervising NBPC’s professional development programs. She began ... More...

Sean Fine & Andrea Nix Fine: Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine created Fine Films, an award-winning production company in the Washington, DC area, in 2003. Their work has taken them to over 30 countries in the past decade. Sean Fine received an Emmy Award for ... More...

Yance Ford: Yance Ford, series producer, P.O.V. | American Documentary, works closely with the executive director and programming director to evaluate films submitted to P.O.V. and is instrumental in curating P.O.V.’s yearly line-up. Ford represents P.O.V. | American Documentary at conferences, festivals ... More...

Ulrike Franke: Ulrike Franke studied theatre, film and television, romance literature and art history in Cologne. She received a 1992 educational grant from the Filmstiftung NRW, and is an author, director and producer. She lectures on documentary film at the International Film ... More...

Nick Fraser: Nick Fraser is editor of Storyville. He describes it as “a good deed of the BBC,” and says, “films shown on STORYVILLE come from anywhere in the world, and deal with any subject.” Nick Fraser was born in London. He ... More...

David Garber: David Garber is President and CEO of Lantern Lane Entertainment, Ltd. Lantern Lane licenses films in all areas of entertainment and consults on marketing and distribution issues worldwide. Most recent projects include consulting on “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” for ... More...

Liz Garbus: Liz Garbus cofounded Moxie Firecracker, Inc., an independent documentary production company, with filmmaker Rory Kennedy in 1998. Her directorial credits include THE FARM: ANGOLA, USA, which received an Academy Award nomination and won two Emmys and the Sundance Grand Jury ... More...

Jean Garner: Jean Garner has worked as a producer in production and broadcast journalism for the past 20 years. She is currently the commissioning and acquisitions producer for the Al Jazeera English program, WITNESS, based in London. Garner works with filmmakers in ... More...

Brett Gaylor: Brett Gaylor is the creator of OpenSourceCinema.org, a video-remix community supporting the production of a feature documentary about copyright in the digital age. He is also the Web producer of HomelessNation.org, a Web project dedicated to bridging the digital divide, ... More...

Ariana Gerstein: Ariana Gerstein has made many short experimental films, which have won awards and screened internationally. She collaborated with Monteith McCollum on the documentary HYBRID which won awards at the International Film Festival in Amsterdam and Slamdance, and Independent Spirit Awards. ... More...

Alex Gibney: Alex Gibney is a graduate of Yale University and UCLA and was the writer, producer and director of the 2006 Oscar®-nominated film ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM, which also received the Independent Spirit Award and the WGA Award. ... More...

Faye Ginsberg: Faye Ginsburg is director of the Center for Media, Culture, and History, and codirector of the Center for Religion and Media at New York University, where she is also the David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology. An anthropologist and filmmaker, ... More...

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Sarah Gonser: Sarah Gonser has been a professional writer and editor for ten years. Born and raised in Switzerland, she has lived in New York City since 1992. WAKING APHRODITE is her first venture into filmmaking. More...

Tamara Gould: Tamara Gould is the vice president of distribution for the Independent Television Service (ITVS) where she oversees domestic distribution of international documentaries from around the world through the ITVS International Media Development Fund. Gould is involved in all aspects of ... More...

Sam Green: Sam Green is a documentary filmmaker based in San Francisco and on the web at www.samgreen.to. His most recent film THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND was nominated for an Academy Award and included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Green received his Masters ... More...

Bill Guttentag: Bill Guttentag is a successful television and film producer and director who has received two Academy Awards and two Emmy Awards. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the American Film Institute, he created and executive produced the NBC ... More...

Janet Han Vissering: Janet Han Vissering is National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) Senior Vice President of Strategic Development and Co-Finance. In the Programming Department, she manages co-finance and strategic alliances with domestic and international broadcast and production partners. She also manages global programming ... More...

Bill Haney: Bill Haney is a director, producer and screenwriter. He is also the co-founder and president of Infante Sano, a nonprofit dedicated to improving maternal and neonatal health care in the Dominican Republic. More...

Mike Haney: Mike Haney, in his current role at CustomFlix (a subsidiary of Amazon.com), manages content licensing activities with home-video distributors, television and cable nets, international content holders, filmmakers, archives and non-profits. Haney most recently served as VP of Sundance Channel Home ... More...

Martin Hansen: Martin Hansen was born in Kiel, Germany in 1951 and studied photography and film in Braunschweig. In 1985 he founded the production company KARO Film with Thomas Bartels. He also works as a cameraman and editor. More...

John Haptas: John Haptas has produced films with Kristine Samuelson for almost twenty years. Their documentary essays include RIDING THE TIGER; THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT; EMPIRE OF THE MOON; and WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME all of which have screened in ... More...

Camille Hardman: Camille Hardman is a tenacious filmmaker who developed a thirst for filmmaking while living in New York in 1993, working as a runner on a feature film. She worked for Grainger Television as Director, Principal Camera and Production Manager and ... More...

Albie Hecht: Albie Hecht, Producer, War/dance In Over 20 Years As A Top Film And television producer and network executive, Albie Hecht introduced groundbreaking entertainment for people of all ages. Hecht oversaw production at Nickelodeon Movies, where he has produced films such ... More...

John Hennegan & Brad Hennegan: John Hennegan started his career in radio, landing on-air talent positions at stations in North Carolina and New York. He worked at the Washington, DC bureau of CNN, for Radar Pictures in Los Angeles, and is now a New York- ... More...

Tomer Heymann: Tomer Heymann is one of the most outstanding contemporary Israeli documentary filmmakers. His acclaimed film IT KINDA SCARES ME won first prize at the 2001 Haifa Film Festival, and last year’s PAPER DOLLS won first place at the Berlinale and ... More...

Barak Heymann: Barak Heymann has worked with his brother Tomer for more than seven years and has produced documentaries for Israeli television. He is currently working on the eight-part documentary series HOME SWEET HOME and on THE ASPARAGUS TRAIL about senior citizens ... More...

Oliver Hodge: Oliver Hodge’s thirteen years’ experience in the film and television industry has involved working on twenty major feature films. He has headed departments, supervised special-effects projects and worked with directors including George Lucas, Tim Burton, Danny Cannon and Danny Boyle. ... More...

David Holbrooke: David Holbrooke has recently made a series of short films: A REDWOOD GROWS IN BROOKLYN examines the human relationship to the natural world, while FREAKS LIKE ME and TIME FOR A NEW GOD look at religion and spirituality after 9/11. ... More...

Heddy Honigman: Heddy Honigmann, a child of Holocaust survivors, was born in 1951 in Lima, Peru, where she studied biology and literature at the University of Lima. She studied film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. Since 1978 she has ... More...

Beth Hoppe: Beth Hoppe joined Optomen Productions New York office as president and CEO. Hoppe is serving as executive producer for all of Optomen’s US output, including the second season of the hit series for Discovery channel, MOST EVIL. For Discovery, Optomen ... More...

David Hulme: David Hulme has studied Psychology and Philosophy (University of Edinburgh), Theology (Ambassador College, UK) and International Relations (University of Southern California). He holds a doctorate from USC in International Relations, with an emphasis on Foreign Policy and the Middle East. ... More...

Gary Hustwit: Gary Hustwit has produced five documentaries, including I AM TRYING TO BREAK YOUR HEART, the award-winning film about the band Wilco; MOOG, the documentary about electronic music pioneer Robert Moog; and DRIVE WELL, SLEEP CAREFULLY, a tour film about the ... More...

Jason Hutt: Jason Hutt, a Maryland native, entered Harvard University as a soccer player and graduated with a passion for cinéma vérité. Hutt worked as an assistant to Academy Award®-nominated director/producer Mike Tollin on sports-related feature films such as SUMMER CATCH, HARDBALL ... More...

Andre Hörmann: Andre Hörmann was born in Bremen in 1975. He has worked for the Development Company for Television Programs in Düsseldorf, the Potel Film & Medien Company in Ulm, and the Institute for Media Research and Media Development, also in Ulm. ... More...

Mark Irwin: Mark Irwin is Vice President of Strategy and Development at Discovery Communications, LLC. In this position, Irwin works on the development of traditional and new media strategies, business analysis and modeling, mergers and acquisitions. Previoulsy, Irwin served as Vice President ... More...

Michael Jacobs: Michael Jacobs, a San Francisco based filmmaker, was born and raised in Boulder, Colorado. His interest in documentaries began during his senior year of college at the University of Vermont, where the town of Burlington provided a wealth of quirky ... More...

Mariam Jobrani: Mariam Jobrani emigrated from Iran in 1979, due to the Iranian Revolution. She now has over 10 years experience as a television producer, from PBS documentaries to network reality shows. Her career began at Pacem Productions, and since 2001, she ... More...

Stephanie Johnes: Stephanie Johnes was born and raised in New York City. Her first short film, BOUNCING BULLDOGS, premiered on PBS. Her R&B music video CLAP WIT’ IT screened at SXSW. Johnes received a BA from the University of Colorado at Boulder, ... More...

Jacquie Jones: Jacquie Jones, executive director of the National Black Programming Consortium, is spearheading the 27-year-old media arts organization’s transition into the dynamic, new media environment by establishing innovative partnerships and products designed to help black content producers access next-generation media models ... More...

Christoph Jörg: Christoph Jörg is a Senior Commissioning Executive in the Arte France Specialist Factual department handling History, Science, Religion and Sport ideas. He is in charge of international development and international co-production. Before Jörg worked in the Thematic Evening Department of ... More...

John Kane: John Kane grew up in small-town Ohio. After graduating from Swarthmore College with a BA in English, he worked as a web developer and designer in San Francisco. Intrigued by the Latino culture in that city's Mission district, John learned ... More...

Ed Kashi: Ed Kashi is a photojournalist dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times. Born in New York City in 1957, Kashi graduated from Syracuse University in 1979 with a degree in photojournalism and has since photographed ... More...

Tony Kaye: Tony Kaye is best known as the director of AMERICAN HISTORY X. He was born in London, England in 1952 and was educated in the English public schools. He attended St. Albans School of Art and Midway College of Design, ... More...

Patrick Keegan: Patrick Keegan is a production specialist for Animal Plantet U.S.. Keegan supervises the transition of projects from development to production and ensures that both internal and external producers meet Animal Planet’s programming needs. Prior to his recent transition to production, ... More...

Stephen Kijak: Stephen Kijak feature documentary CINEMANIA, a collaboration with German filmmaker Angela Christlieb, was invited to film festivals around the globe and won the Golden Starfish Jury Award for Best Documentary at the 2002 Hamptons International Film Festival. It has been ... More...

Braden King: Braden King has directed music videos, short films and live collaborative pieces for several well known music groups including Sonic Youth and Yo La Tengo. He directed the interactive DVD project LOOKING FOR A THRILL: AN ANTHOLOGY OF INSPIRATION, for ... More...

Marcin Janos Krawczyk: Marcin Janos Krawczyk was born in 1978 in Tomaszów Lubelski and has worked as an actor. While taking the documentary course at Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing, he made one short documentary for the set SILENCE II. His ... More...

Lance Kruger: Lance Kruger has been dabbling in film since he was eight years old. Born and raised in Nevada, Kruger has lived in Brooklyn, New York since 1995. He studied film at the University of Southern California, University of Nevada Las ... More...

Mary Lambert: Mary Lambert’s groundbreaking style and narrative skills helped fuel the MTV revolution through a series of videos she directed for a “Who’s Who” of superstar performers, including Madonna, Janet Jackson, Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry and Dolly Parton. She has more ... More...

Linda Lawrence: Linda C. Lawrence, executive director for Open Media Network, has held various executive level positions for technology and non-profit organizations. She was a vice president at AOL, where she was responsible for Netscape International. Prior to Netscape, she held international ... More...

Georgi Lazarevski: Georgi Lazarevski’s roots are in Belgium and Yugoslavia, and he graduated from the National Louis Lumière School in France. He is a well-traveled photographer who has published photographs in L’Express, VSD, Le Monde, Le Monde-diplomatique and Géo. His photographs are ... More...

Thomas Lennon: Thomas Lennon is director of a PBS series on the US Supreme Court and worked for almost a decade in the closeup division of ABC News. In 2003, Lennon completed BECOMING AMERICAN with Bill Moyers, which traced Chinese immigration from ... More...

Eliza Licht: Eliza Licht, director of Community Engagement and Education, American Documentary | P.O.V. Eliza oversees the development and implementation of P.O.V.’s national community engagement and education campaigns. She works with public television stations, educators and communitybased organizations to present community screenings ... More...

Elizabeth Lindsey: Elizabeth Kapu’uwailani Lindsey, PhD, is an award-winning filmmaker, anthropologist and lecturer who was raised by native Hawaiian elders. An esteemed international speaker who captivates audiences with her passion for indigenous knowledge, Dr. Lindsey’s engagements include Capitol Hill, Harvard University and ... More...

Rob Lippincott: Rob Lippincott is senior vice president for education at PBS, responsible for the development and implementation of effective public-media educational services for local public television stations, students, teachers and parents. He manages strategic and operational planning, secures new financial resources ... More...

Kathryn Lo: Kathryn Lo, Associate Director, Program Development and Independent Film, PBS, is responsible for program evaluation, development and acquisitions. She also curates PBS’ Independent Lens, the weekly Emmy(r) Award-winning anthology showcase for independent film, working with Independent Television Service (ITVS) and ... More...

Gayle Loeber: Gayle Loeber is the director of Programming for the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) in Columbia, South Carolina. She has been in public television for over a quarter of a century, working both at the local station level (Nebraska ETV, ... More...

Michael Loeken: Michael Loeken studied theatre, film and television in Cologne. He wrote and directed the 1981 documentary ICH HATTE SCHON BEGONNEN, DIE FREIHEIT ZU VERGESSEN. He is a skilled sound mixer, author, director and producer and has served on awards committees ... More...

Julie Lofton: Julie Lofton, a filmmaker and television producer, won a Genesis Award for her documentary film BEST FRIEND FORGOTTEN, hosted by David Duchovny and produced by her own production company. Shortly after receiving the award, she began developing Animal Content in ... More...

James Longley: James Longley was born in Oregon in 1972 and studied Film and Russian at Wesleyan University and the All-Russian Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. His student film, PORTRAIT OF BOY WITH DOG, co-directed with Robin Hessman, won a Student Academy ... More...

Cynthia López: Cynthia López is vice president for American documentary, P.O.V., responsible for programming, con-tent development, fundraising, marketing, branding and strategic planning. Under her leadership as Communications Director, national media coverage of P.O.V. documentaries has increased exponentially. Since 2000, López has built ... More...

Richard Lorber: Richard Lorber is the head of Koch Lorber Films (KLF). Documentary releases include, THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS, OUR BRAND IS CRISIS, 10th DISTRICT COURT and 9 STAR HOTEL. On DVD the company has just released THE BRIDGE. and will release THE ... More...

Susan MacLaury: Susan MacLaury is executive producer of WAR/DANCE, a selection of SILVERDOCS 2007. Dr. MacLaury, PhD, LSW, is dually degreed in social work administration and health education. She is the executive director of Shine Global. For more than 20 years she ... More...

Albert Maysles: Albert Maysles is a pioneer of Direct Cinema. He and his brother David Maysles were the first to make nonfiction features where the drama unfolds as-is, without scripts, sets, interviews or narration. He has directed 36 films, received a Guggenheim ... More...

Natalie McMenemy: In her fourth year with AFI FEST and as Director of Operations & Production, Natalie McMenemy oversees all aspects of the physical festival production and operating logistics. Natalie is also no stranger to programming, having served as the Documentary Programmer ... More...

Andrea Meditch: Andrea Meditch is executive producer for Discovery Films, the theatrical arm of Discovery Communications, Andrea Meditch oversees the development and production of Discovery Films’ growing portfolio of high-impact theatrical documentaries. Her credits include Discovery Films’ GRIZZLY MAN by acclaimed director ... More...

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Cara Mertes: Cara Mertes is currently the Executive Director of American Documentary, Inc.and. Executive Producer of P.O.V., PBS’ critically acclaimed showcase for independent non-fiction film. Cara is a long time advocate for independent media artists, and an awardwinning filmmaker, programmer, teacher and ... More...

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Jonathan Miller: Jonathan Miller has been President of First Run/Icarus Films since it was founded 20 years ago. First Run/Icarus Films [ www.frif.com ] was created in 1987 when Icarus Films (founded in 1978) and First Run Features (founded in 1979) merged ... More...

Mike Mills: Mike Mills graduated from Cooper Union and works as a filmmaker, graphic designer and artist. His films have screened at Sundance; the Berlin, Edinburgh and Rotterdam International film festivals; the Oberhausen short film festival; and The New York Museum of ... More...

Chris Mincher: Chris Mincher has been the Washington editor of The Onion A.V. Club since the print edition of The Onion launched in the city in April 2007. A native of Annapolis, Md., Chris had previously worked as an editor at The ... More...

Bernie Mitchell: Bernie Mitchell is an Emmynominated producer, director, and writer, and a graduate in film from UCLA. He was director of photography for AMERICAN KALEIDOSCOPE and is president of Silver Platter Productions, Inc. Mitchell has been invited to speak internationally on ... More...

David Modell: David Modell left school at 16 to pursue photography, achieving quick success in photo-reportage and advertising. His late-1990s photographs of the UK Conservative Party were published in Tory Story, released on election eve 2001. Transitioning to television journalism in 2000, ... More...

Brett Morgen: Brett Morgen is an Academy Award®-nominated producer and director who holds an MFA in Film from NYU. His credits include the critically acclaimed boxing documentary ON THE ROPES, which in addition to an Oscar® nomination received the Sundance Special Jury ... More...

Adam Mosston: Adam Mosston is an award-winning producer who has been a part of PortalVideo since 1999. His experience includes working in network news and documentaries as well as corporate and commercial production. He has also participated in some of the most ... More...

Brian Newman: Brian Newman is executive director of Renew Media (formerly NVR) which supports the creation, dissemination and public awareness of independent media in all forms. Renew Media funds creativity by Project is a new initiative granting over $800,000 dollars annually to ... More...

Ben Niles: Ben Niles is a documentary filmmaker and award-winning graphic designer. His first documentary, JOSH JOPLIN: BETTER DAYS, about the recording industry and the role of the singer-songwriter, received industry acclaim. As a graphic designer, he directed and produced photoshoots, videos, ... More...

Alberta Nokes: Alberta Nokes has commissioned and executive-produced approximately 300 hours of documentary and series programming for VisionTV, Canada. Recent projects include THE LOST TOMB OF JESUS, with Simcha Jacobovici and James Cameron, and ENIGMA, an on-going series of one-hour docs on ... More...

Lesley Norman: Lesley Norman is currently the executive in charge of NOW on PBS, and the vice president and chief operating officer of JumpStart Productions. Previously she was vice president of David Grubin Productions, where she was part of the Emmy-award winning ... More...

Thomas Ostbye: Thomas A. Østbye is a multimedia artist who has studied philosophy, comparative religion and South Asian and Balinese music as well as filmmaking. He runs the Plymserafin production company, currently creating POWERLESSNESS AND THE IMAGINARY, a series of films and ... More...

Angela Palmer: Angie Palmer, director of TV programming development and producer relations for CPB, works to advance the priorities of CPB’s television programming department and foster the inclusion of diverse perspectives in the programming and production process. She is the department liaison ... More...

Chris Palmer: Chris Palmer is a wildlife filmmaker who was born in Hong Kong and grew up in England. He joined American University in August 2004 and founded the Center for Environmental Filmmaking at the School of Communication. He is also President ... More...

Dennis Palmieri: Dennis Palmieri has been working in public and community relations and marketing communications for large nonprofits for nearly ten years. Currently, Palmieri is the National Outreach Manager for the Independent Television Service [ITVS], where he directs ITVS Community, the national ... More...

Sam Paul: Sam Paul joined Sundance Channel in June 2006. Current projects in production include THE HILL, a six-part series examining the intersection of the personal and professional lives of three young, ambitious Congressional staffers, produced by Roland Park Pictures and directed ... More...

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Tjebbo Penning: Tjebbo Penning has directed commercials for Volkswagen, Kodak, Nike and the Royal Dutch Army as well as several television series. Penning wrote, directed and produced the documentary short MY 9/11. GREAT KILLS ROAD, a low-budget feature, is in post-production. Penning’s ... More...

Arturo Perez Torres: Arturo Perez Torres was born in Mexico City and studied film in San Francisco and sociology in the Netherlands. After years of working in advertising, he made his first documentary WETBACK in 2005. SUPER AMIGOS is his second film. Arturo ... More...

Thomas Phelps: THOMAS PHELPS (TOM) is the acting director of the Division of Public Programs. He has been at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH ) since 1980 where he has served as the program officer for grants to libraries, library ... More...

Kathleen Powell: Kathleen J. Powell is vice president of Worldwide Programming, Jaman. She runs all acquisitions and programming capacities for Jaman. Jaman.com, is pioneering social cinema on the Web by delivering better-than-DVD quality films to a growing online community of fans and ... More...

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Doug Pray: Doug Pray is best known for his feature films exploring popular American subcultures. SCRATCH, about turntablism, premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an IFP Independent Spirit Award. HYPE!, about the emergence and explosion of the ... More...

Matthew Prinzing: Matthew Prinzing has been an editor and collaborator with Antonio Ferrera and Albert Maysles for over a decade. More...

Diego Quemada-Díez: Diego Quemada-Diez started his film career working as a camera assistant for British director Ken Loach (LAND AND FREEDOM, CARLA’S SONG). His graduation film at the American Film Institute (AFI), A TABLE IS A TABLE, won the 2001 student award ... More...

Adam Ravetch & Sarah Robertson: Adam Ravetch and Sarah Robertson co-founded The Arctic Exploration Fund, an organization documenting the responses of Arctic wildlife to rapid environmental changes. Ravetch is a marine naturalist, scuba diver and award-winning wildlife filmmaker who has helped film more than 90 ... More...

Jiska Rickels: Jiska Rickels attended the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam and the Munich Film School in Germany, where she was a student of Pr. Dr. K. Schreyer. Although her background is in musical theater, she prefers a visual style ... More...

Sarah Robertson & Adam Ravetch: Adam Ravetch and Sarah Robertson co-founded The Arctic Exploration Fund, an organization documenting the responses of Arctic wildlife to rapid environmental changes. Ravetch is a marine naturalist, scuba diver and award-winning wildlife filmmaker who has helped film more than 90 ... More...

Esther Robinson: Esther B. Robinson has just begun her career as a director but has worked on behalf of America’s artists for over 14 years in many capacities, including foundation program officer, television and film producer, and technology entrepreneur. Esther has a ... More...

Jane Root: Jane Root is responsible for the programming, operations and management of Discovery Channel. She joined the Discovery Channel in June 2004, and later took over The Science Channel and The Military Channel. Since Root’s arrival, Discovery Channel has successfully launched ... More...

Jay Rosenblatt: Jay Rosenblatt has been making films for over 20 years. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have received many awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection of his films had a ... More...

Sandra Ruch: Sandra Ruch, executive director, of the International Documentary Association (IDA). She was president of Marketing at New Line Cinema, launching over 50 theatrical releases. Ruch captured the youth and ethnic markets by developing and launching such films as HOUSE PARTY ... More...

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Kristine Samuelson: Kristine Samuelson has produced films with John Haptas for almost twenty years. Prior to their collaborative work, she made numerous other films, including ARTHUR AND LILLIE (co-producer/director), which was nominated for an Academy Award. She is also a professor at ... More...

Ove Sander: Ove Sander was born in 1977 in Hamburg. He works as a camera assistant on various film productions and on producing his own works. From 2001 to 2006, he was a student at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. After ... More...

Steve Savage: Steve Savage is president and co-founder of NEW VIDEO, a New York-based DVD company. Since1999, NEW VIDEO has distributed a catalog of over 150 independent and classic documentaries under their Docurama label. Additionally, the company has released a catalog of ... More...

AJ Schnack: AJ Schnack is a filmmaker and writer living in Los Angeles. His first feature film GIGANTIC (A TALE OF TWO JOHNS), a documentary about the alt-pop duo They Might Be Giants, was theatrically released by Plexifilm. He co-founded the production ... More...

Ellen Schneider: Ellen Schneider is Founder and executive director of Active Voice. Schneider was most recently executive director of American Documentary, which produces P.O.V., PBS’ longest running independent non-fiction film series. She helped transform the series into an entrepreneurial non profit media ... More...

Charles Schuerhoff: Charles Schuerhoff has 30 years experience in the field of international television program distribution plus six years of production background. He started and for seven years ran the distribution office of WGBH/Boston, where he was responsible for both co-productions and ... More...

Steven Schupak: Steven J. Schupak is vice president of Programming at Maryland Public Television. His responsibilities include overseeing development, production, national sales and national distribution for its current slate of award winning national and local programs. National programs past and present include ... More...

Joel Schwartzberg: Joel Schwartzberg has been the senior producer, new media for the PBS news magazine NOW since March 2006. His oversight includes the award-winning NOW Web site pbs.org/now and all of NOW’s new-media platforms and online outreach initiatives. He also conceived ... More...

Nancy Schwartzman: Nancy Schwartzman is the Program Officer for Media at the Foundation for Jewish Culture. She directs the Fund for Jewish Documentary Film, a fund that supports the completion of original documentary films that explore the Jewish experience. She is a ... More...

Nina Seavey: Nina Gilden Seavey is an Emmy Award–winning filmmaker and a 25-year veteran of the documentary world. She is founder and director of The Documentary Center at The George Washington University, Washington, DC. She also served as Founding Director, Executive Producer, ... More...

Max Segal: Max Segal, along with David Sheehan, was elected ACSIL co-president in November 2006. In 1989, Segal started his career at HBO as head of rights and clearances for the network’s sports division. He began producing features in 1991. As senior ... More...

Shane Seggar: Shane Seggar is program director for Pacific Islanders in Communications. He supports Pacific filmmakers in their drive to produce on the national level. He makes workshops, internships, and mentorships available to interested producers, and works closely with funded producers on ... More...

Jason Seiken: Jason Seiken oversees PBS’s awardwinning new media content and services including the Web sites pbs.org, pbskids.org, pbskidsgo.org and pbsparents.org, as well as emerging broadband and mobile delivery platforms. He is responsible for the implementation of both short- and long-range strategies ... More...

Jake Shapiro: Jake Shapiro is Executive Director of the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), a nonprofit web-based service for distribution, review, and licensing of radio programs. Prior to helping launch PRX in 2003, Jake served as Associate Director of the Berkman Center for ... More...

Stephanie Sharis: Stephanie Sharis has worked in the new media and entertainment industry for nine years. As AOL director of creative development, she oversees AOL True Stories, a broadband channel for documentaries, and other original programming for the Web. She co-produced a ... More...

Melanie Shatzky: Melanie Shatzky (1976, Canada) and Brian Cassidy (1977, USA) met in 2004 while pursuing MFAs at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and began collaborating on fiction and documentary films. Their work has screened at the Sundance ... More...

David Sheehan: David N. Sheehan is director, ABCNEWS VideoSource, responsible for the licensing of ABC News content to the public television, broadcast, educational, cinematic and corporate communities. An original staff member of VideoSource at the inception in 1995, Sheehan today manages the ... More...

Amy Shumaker: With over 17 years experience in public television production, Amy Shumaker is Executive Producer of Content at the South Carolina Educational Television Network. She is the executive producer for SC ETV’s weekly independent film series, SOUTHERN LENS and the award-winning ... More...

Neil Sieling: Neil Sieling is the New Media Fellow at The Center for Social Media, which showcases and analyzes strategies for using media as creative tools for public knowledge and action. Part of this work includes partnering with Doc Agora, a non-profit ... More...

David Sington: David Sington taught himself to make films by actually doing it, first at Cambridge University and then while working as a radio producer for the BBC World Service. He worked for BBC Television’s Science and Features Department from 1987- 1999, ... More...

Len Sitomer: Len Sitomer is a leading digital media producer and technology designer. In 1992, he founded PortalVideo, LLC, a media consulting firm that provides new-age video communication tools, technologies and strategies to clients in the private equity industry. The company grew ... More...

Michael Skolnik: Michael most recently co-directed the award winning feature film, ON THE OUTS, which was nominated for a 2005 IFP Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature. In 1997, Skolnik founded Equal Oportunity Productions (EqOp), an arts organization created to help address ... More...

Mary Olive Smith: Mary Olive Smith has produced, directed and written prime-time documentaries for major television broadcasters including the Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channels, The History Channel and Canal+. Her work has taken her to more than 30 countries, and her travels to ... More...

Mary Smith: Mary Smith is the film, radio, and television specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts. She primarily works with independent media arts including film, video, and audio production; film, video, and audio festivals; distribution and preservation of film, video, ... More...

John Smithson: John Smithson is founder and chief creative director of Darlow Smithson Productions (DSP), one of the world’s leading factual production companies. Smithson has won more than 25 international awards for his work as producer, director and executive producer. He is ... More...

Rob Smits: Rob Smits has directed over a dozen documentaries, including PARADISE (2000), OBSERVATIONS IN HOLLAND (2000), RESTING PLACE KREMLIN (1999), MISHA’S Dream (1996), EMMA (1995), GENERAL GARIBALDI (1995), and FROM HERE TO MY HOME (1994). His work has received numerous awards ... More...

Kim Spencer: Kim Spencer is President of Link TV, the independent non-commercial network devoted to global affairs. A producer of more the 60 documentaries and current affairs programs, Spencer helped pioneer international satellite “spacebridges” and was a co-founder of Internews, an NGO ... More...

Suzanne Stefanac: Suzanne Stefanac is director of the American Film Institute’s Digital Content Lab. Previously, she was co-founder and senior vice president for RespondTV, an interactive television infrastructure company, where she oversaw the creation and build of more than 100 applications for ... More...

Cari Stein: Cari W. Stein, executive producer, producer and writer, is a founding partner in Ivy Media LLC. Ms. Stein is a veteran of network and local news, public affairs, documentary, reality and entertainment programming in New York, Washington, Baltimore and New ... More...

Ricki Stern: Ricki Stern is the director and coproducer of the award-winning documentary IN MY CORNER, on the world of amateur boxing and the lives of young men training in the South Bronx, which was nationally broadcast on POV in 1999. She ... More...

Randy Stulberg: Randy Stulberg is a video and installation artist whose work “Jeff Pearson: American Patriot” inspired OFF THE GRID. She has shown in Exit Art, AIR Gallery and American Fine Arts in New York. She transitioned to filmmaking by assisting Maryann ... More...

Jeremy Stulberg: Jeremy Stulberg was editor/associate producer of THE EDUCATION OF SHELBY KNOX, which premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and won the audience awards at SXSW and Full Frame. He edited the 2006 feature ANOTHER GAY MOVIE and was associate ... More...

Dan Sturman: Dan Sturman produced the Academy Award®-winning documentary TWIN TOWERS about two brothers who died in the World Trade Center collapse. He was the associate producer of Charles Guggenheim’s A TIME FOR JUSTICE and produced three seasons of CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. More...

Annie Sundberg: Annie Sundberg’s debut film TULLY was nominated for four IFP Spirit Awards and received Best Film at eleven festivals. She produced the 1996 Academy Award and Emmy-winning ONE SURVIVOR REMEMBERS, a coproduction of HBO and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. ... More...

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Paul Taylor: Paul Taylor had the good fortune of meeting the children of Agape and Slindile while volunteering in South Africa during a break from film school in 2003. It was during these three months that he first heard their beautiful singing ... More...

Matthew Testa: Director/Cinematographer Matthew Testa has been working in film and television production for 10 years, with credits on PBS, Bravo, A&E, National Geographic, Discovery and elsewhere. His PBS documentary THE BUFFALO WAR is the winner of 9 awards, including a CINE ... More...

Mat Tombers: Mathew Tombers is managing director of Intermat, Inc. Tombers and Intermat have helped executive-produce projects for a number of networks, including OFF TO WAR for Discovery Times in conjunction with DCTV, Jon Alpert and Craig and Brent Renaud. Tombers is ... More...

Angela Tucker: Angela Tucker is the Director of Production at Arts Engine, Inc. She is currently producing the films The Cheating Culture and Rose and Nangabire (working title) and directing a film about asexuality. She was the Line Producer for Beyond the ... More...

Christian Ugbode: N. Christian Ugbode is the Programs & New Media Coordinator at National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC). He is the in-house coordinator of NBPC’s HBCU new media initiatives, including the Eyes On The Prize: Black College New Media Competition and the ... More...

Mark Urman: Mark Urman – Head of US Theatrical. Prior to the creation of THINKFilm, he was as co-president of the US Theatrical Releasing division of Lions Gate Films, where he engineered the marketing and distribution of such successes as GODS AND ... More...

Jaap van Heusden: JAAP VAN HEUSDEN has made several documentaries and short fiction films. He founded Semifilms, a platform for young filmmakers, in 1998. Recently he studied philosophy at Utrecht University and graduated from the Director’s Department of the Dutch Film Academy His ... More...

Rob VanAlkemade: Rob VanAlkemade was an interviewer and videographer for Steven Spielberg’s Visual History Foundation from 1995-98 while earning an MA in media studies from the New School for Social Research. He has since been a director, producer, cinematographer, sound recordist and/or ... More...

Mark Verkerk: Mark Verkerk has been involved in all aspects of film and television production, from camerawork, to editing and directing. But his passion for documentary has remained constant. Born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1956, Verkerk graduated from the London International Film ... More...

Lois Vossen: Lois Vossen is the INDEPENDENT LENS founding series producer. In its first season, INDEPENDENT LENS won an Emmy Award for Best Documentary and was nominated for an Academy Award®. In its second season, it was nominated for two Best Documentary ... More...

Cynthia Wade: Cynthia Wade is a NYC-based documentary filmmaker. Her short documentary FREEHELD won a Special Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, and her award-winning HBO documentary SHELTER DOGS was broadcast in seven countries. Wade has been a Director of ... More...

Joerg Wagner: Jasmin Gordon is a recent graduate of Stanford University's MA program in Documentary Film and Video, where she directed and produced four short films including PARIS 1951, which received an IDA/Wolper Student Award Nomination in 2005 and won the ITVS ... More...

Melanie Wallace: Melanie Wallace has been with WGBH-TV for over 20 years, serving in many different capacities from production assistant to film director. Since 1998, she has been the senior series producer for NOVA, the longest-running and most successful science documentary series ... More...

Gabe Wardell: More...

Bridget Whalen: As Executive Director of Development for the National Geographic Channel (NGC), Bridget Whalen is responsible for finding and creating the best ideas, formats, producers and talent for the network to pursue. She supervises the development team that serves as the ... More...

Chris White: Chris White is a producer, editor and programmer. White produces and edits all on-air packaging materials for P.O.V., and for American Documentary’s TRUE LIVES series. Each season, this includes 30-40 promos for station use, BEHIND THE LENS filmmaker interviews, TALKING ... More...

Lawrence Wilkerson: More...

Marco Williams: Marco Williams is a faculty member at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, in their Undergraduate Film and Television Department where he teaches screenwriting, documentary, fiction and television production. He received a BA from Harvard University in Visual ... More...

Weaam Williams: Weaam Williams is a published writer who attended the University of Cape Town and studied electronic media, camerawork and editing at the Cape Video Education Trust. HIP-HOP REVOLUTION, a three-year labor of love and her second documentary, combines her expertise ... More...

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John F. Wilson: John F. Wilson, senior vice president and chief television programming executive, oversees all of PBS’s television programming services. His responsibilities include programming and scheduling the National Program Service, comprising all of PBS’s primetime and children’s programming; fundraising programming, which provides ... More...

Allison Winshel: Allison Winshel, as senior director of Primetime Programming at PBS, is responsible for identifying programs for distribution through the National Program Service. She is part of the PBS programming team that sets priorities, evaluates proposals, makes funding recommendations and oversees ... More...

Peter Wintonick: Peter Wintonick is perhaps Canada’s best-known international documentary filmmaker, and was the 2006 Governor General’s Visual and Media Arts Award Laureate, Canada’s highest such honour. He co-founded the GreenCodeProject for the Media Industries, a Canadian-based non-profit international green media organization ... More...

Frederick Wiseman: Frederick Wiseman, documentary filmmaker and theatre director, has created 36 films. He holds a BA from Williams College and an LLB from Yale Law School. His film career began in 1967 with TITICUT FOLLIES, examining conditions inside the Bridgewater State ... More...

Maria Yatskova: Maria Yatskova was born in Moscow in 1976 and immigrated to the US five years later. She studied journalism in France and Belgium and film at the New School for Social Research in New York. Maria