PRODUCER/DIRECTOR
Sarah Feinbloom is an award-winning filmmaker whose work includes documentaries, dramatic narrative, and fundraising videos. She received a California Council for the Humanities Grant, The Paul Robeson Grant for Independent Media, and the Pacific Pioneer Award for her 50-minute documentary What Do You Believe? - the religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers. What Do You Believe aired on PBS stations WGBH and KCET and has been screened nationally and internationally at venues including the Mill Valley Film Festival, the Toronto Children’s Film Festival, the Religion Today Film Festival in Italy, and at conferences including the National Association of Multicultural Educators the American Academy of Religion. It was voted "One of Ten Best Videos for Young Adults in 2003" by the American Library Association, and is being distributed nationally by New Day Films. She leads workshops and made presentations nationally and internationally on interfaith dialogue and religious diversity.

Her other projects include Youth to Youth-a video about violence, which examines racism, rape, war, growing up with violence, and police brutality through young people’s eyes. This 30-minute documentary was featured on National Public Radio, in the Boston Globe, and the School Library Journal. Which Way, Por Favor? - an independent feature film, which she produced in Mexico, is being distributed in video stores by Ardustry Entertainment and was the audience favorite at the San Francisco Indie-Fest and the Ajijic Festival International de Cine.

Sarah has been responsible for fundraising and grant writing for her films, and she developed successful marketing and distribution strategies for What Do You Believe? and Youth to Youth. In addition she created extensive curriculum guides for these projects. She also writes grants and has authored guides for other filmmakers. As a member of New Day Films, Sarah is involved in with the marketing team to distribute over 100 social issue documentaries nationally. She has worked as the catalog editor and has developed several new marketing initiatives. Recently Sarah was elected to the steering committee and will head up the marketing team.

In April 2005 she finished Daughters and Sons - Preventing Child-trafficking in the Golden Triangle, a half hour documentary that she produced, directed and shot. Daughters and Sons is being used to raise money to support the Development and Educational Program for Daughters and Communities in Thailand, which rescues children before they are trafficked into the sex-industry and other forms of forced labor. Daughters and Sons premiered at the Boston International Film Festival and was featured on NPR’s The World, a co-production of the BBC and WGBH. To date the film has raised over $80,000.

Sarah has a B.A. in Political Science from Barnard College, Columbia University and an M.A. in Education from Tufts University. In addition to filmmaking for the past eighteen years, she has worked as a public school teacher and a coordinator of youth programs committed to social justice and cross-cultural understanding with organizations including the American Friends Service Committee and the San Francisco Volunteer Center. She also has traveled widely and speaks French and Spanish.

EDITOR
Anne Flatté is a San Francisco-based documentary film editor who has been has editing independent films, videos, and television programs since 1994. Recent works include Seizing Power (PBS), What Do You Believe? (PBS) and Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America, (Theatrical release scheduled for Fall, 2004; www.loterialfilms.org). Flatté directed and edited Interlove Story, which was broadcast on PBS and won numerous festival awards. She is a graduate of Stanford University's masters program in documentary film and video and holds a bachelor of arts in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. aflatte@earthlink.net

EDITOR
Nathaniel Dorsky has been making avante garde films since 1964. His films have had special exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Biennial in New York, The Louvre, Lincoln Center, and at prestigious festivals including the New York, Toronto and Rotterdam Film Festivals. Dorsky has received an Emmy Award for cinematography, and four grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. His editing credits include several PBS documentaries, and work as a consulting editor on numerous projects including Barbara Sonnenborn's Regret to Inform, which was nominated for an Oscar.

MUSIC COMPOSER
Paul Scriver

SOUND DESIGNER/MIXER
Mark Escott from Robert Berke Sound

STILL PHOTOGRAPHER
Jason Harris www.jason-harris.com

DESIGNER
Rainey Straus of Whirligirl Studio

WEBSITE PRODUCTION
David Wisz www.wisz.com