DAVINA PARDO (Director/Producer/Cinematographer)
is a documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY who has produced, directed and photographed several award-winning films. Her short documentaries MINKA, YESTERDAY IN RWANDA, and BIRDLINGS TWO screened at dozens of film festivals around the world including Toronto International Film Festival, Tribeca, True/False, Hot Docs, Full Frame, Slamdance, and Silverdocs. Davina associate produced Cynthia Wade’s Academy Award-winning documentary FREEHELD, and is currently producing a feature-length documentary about New Yorker cartoonists directed by Leah Wolchok. She runs the production company Birdling Films, creating documentary films for corporate and non- profit clients. A native of Canada, her first job in film was working as David Cronenberg’s assistant from 2003-2005.

ANDREW BLUM (Producer)
is a journalist in Brooklyn, NY. He is contributing editor at Metropolis and a correspondent at Wired. His writing about architecture, design and urbanism has also been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Architectural Record, Business Week, Slate, Travel & Leisure, and Popular Science, among others. He studied English and architecture history at Amherst College, and has an MA in human geography from the University of Toronto. He is writing a book about the physical infrastructure of the Internet, to be published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2012.

LILA PLACE (Editor)
is a documentary filmmaker and editor. Her award-winning short films have screened at numerous festivals in the US and abroad, including Slamdance, Silverdocs, Margaret Mead, and IDFA, as well as at the Museum of Modern Art and on PBS. Her film Under The Roller Coaster won best documentary short at Slamdance Film Festival and Palm Springs International Short Film Festival and received an outstanding film award by the Caucus Foundation. As a film editor and assistant editor she has worked for HBO Latino, Woody Allen, Spike Lee, and the United Nations, among many others. She received a Masters in Documentary Film from Stanford University and a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Barnard College, Columbia University.

MAX AVERY LICHTENSTEIN (Original Music)
is a film composer whose melodic sensibilities, understated arrangements and creative recording techniques infuse a special character into the movies his scores accompany. His music can be heard in critically-acclaimed films such as TARNATION, THE KING, JESUS’ SON, LOOT and FAR FROM HEAVEN. He recently completed scoring BORN SWEET, directed by Academy Award winner Cynthia Wade.

Max is also a member of the band Timesbold and writes and performs his own songs under the name Camphor.  More information can be found at http://www.maxavery.li

DEBORAH SHAFFER (Consulting Producer)
began making social documentaries with the Newsreel collective in the early 70′s, catalyzed by the anti-Vietnam War movement and seduced by the power of film to create change. She co-founded one of the first all women production companies, Pandora Films, which produced several short films about teens. Her first feature documentary, THE WOBBLIES, premiered at the NY Film Festival and won awards at many international festivals. In the 80′s Deborah made a number of films about human rights in Central and Latin America, of which WITNESS TO WAR was awarded an Oscar® for Short Documentary. FIRE FROM THE MOUNTAIN and DANCE OF HOPE played numerous festivals, including Sundance. In 2001 Deborah was one of the first filmmakers to work in downtown New York (the World Trade Center was 12 blocks from her home), directing FROM THE ASHES-10 ARTISTS and FROM THE ASHES-EPILOGUE (Sundance, Tribeca, Cinemax). In 2004 she exec-produced the short ASYLUM, which was nominated for an Academy Award®. In addition to her indie work, Deborah has produced docs for public television, notably “Women Underground” (Emma Award) for WGBH and “Ladies First: The Women of Rwanda” for WNET (Emmy Award). Her latest film is TO BE HEARD which won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at DOC NYC.