Deirdre Fishel • Director, Producer, Cinematographer

Deirdre Fishel has been writing and directing documentaries and dramas for 20 years now. She started at WNYC-TV where she produced a 1/2 hour program on women community organizers working to save the South Bronx, then went on to write and direct two award-winning dramas which were distributed by WOMEN MAKE MOVIES. Her dramatic feature, RISK, premiered in competition at Sundance and had a theatrical as well as wide video and international release. In addition to Sundance Deirdre’s work has been screened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Film Institute, the Museum of Television and Radio, and in over twenty festivals in the U.S and Europe and been broadcast on the Sundance Channel, the New York Times Discovery Channel and on more than thirty channels worldwide. In 1995 Deirdre started Mind’s Eye Productions dedicated to producing cutting edge educational films and videos. Her video on teen dating violence won a Cine Golden Eagle. Deirdre is currently on the faculty of the New School University. She attended the American Film Institute and has a degree in semiotics from Brown University. She lives in Brooklyn with her daughters Maeve and Lucia.

DIANA HOLTZBERG • Producer, Executive Producer

Diana is Acquisitions, Project Development and Sales Director, US for Films Transit International, a leading documentary film distribution company with an impressive roster of renowned documentaries, including My Flesh and Blood, Power Trip, Bukowski:Born Into This, Imaginary Witness:Hollywood and The Holocaust, End of the Century: The Story of The Ramones, Outfoxed and Southern Comfort. She is the executive producer of four films: Imaginary Witness:Hollywood and The Holocaust, End of the Century: The Story of The Ramones and Still Doing It (with Jan Rofekamp) and Held Hostage in Columbia. After receiving a certificate in film from NYU Diana went to Gabriel Films. She and Films Transit's President co-authored The Current State of the International Marketplace For Documentary Films and Feeling Festive: Strategies for Taking Your Film on the Festival Circuit.

JAN ROFEKAMP • Executive Producer

Jan Röfekamp is President and owner of Films Transit International, one of the world's leading international distributors of 'high profile' theatrical feature documentaries such as: The Corporation, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, War Photographer, Crumb, Molly and Mobarak, Family, Lost in la Mancha, Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus, Paragraph 175 and many more. After studying film production at the Dutch Film Academy from 1968-1972, Jan Röfekamp co-founded and co-operated film distribution company Fugitive Cinema Holland from 1972 till 1982. Of Dutch origin, he was born on April 16, 1950 in Zurich, Switzerland and has lived in Montreal, Canada since July 1982 where he founded FILMS TRANSIT INTERNATIONAL INC. He has produced and executive produced dozens of films throughout his career.

MATHIEU BORYSEVICZ • Editor

A Brooklyn based artist, filmmaker, and critic, Mathieu has worked in the production and post-production of films and television for such networks as ABC, CNN, BET, ZDF, Channel 4 UK, Arté, National Geographic TV as well as for various television stations throughout China. He has also made films for The UNHCR, The European Union, and The World Bank. He has edited films that have been shown on PBS' Independent Lens and POV, Anthology Film Archives, and Walter Reade Theatre at Lincoln Center. Mathieu has also exhibited his art at ICA London, the Bauhaus in Dessau, The Beijing Art Museum, White Box NY, and at Socrates Sculpture Park.

CAROLINE KIM • Cinematography

A working director of photography for documentaries and television, Caroline is a 2003 IFP Project Involve documentary filmmaker honoree. Television camera credits include the Emmy-award winning television show EGG and Cookin• in Brooklyn, for the Discovery Channel. Also a video artist, Caroline has also contributed to video installation projects for the Queens Museum and various dance and theater companies.