Alma Har'el worked for several years as a live video-art performer which led her to directing music videos. Her work with singer Zach Condon of the band Beirut brought her several nominations in film and music video festivals around the world including the MTV VMA's and UK MVA.
Bombay Beach was directed, shot and produced entirely by Har'el. It won Best Documentary Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival and has continued to garner nominations and awards from more than thirty film festivals around the world. In 2011 she was chosen as one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Cinema. Her work is recognized for her expression through modern dance, landscape and character, and for her ability to create images with a striking balance of emotions that are heavy hearted as often as they are playful and joyous. She was born and raised in Israel.
Since 2006, Danfung Dennis has covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His still photographs have been published in Newsweek, TIME, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Le Figaro Magazine, Financial Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Der Spiegel, and The Wall Street Journal.
PBS's Frontline opened its 2009 fall feature program, Obama's War using Danfung Dennis's footage. The immersive nature of the footage prompted a flurry of comment and inquiry from the Pentagon, the White House, veterans groups, viewers and the program was nominated for a 2010 Emmy Award.
In 2010, Danfung Dennis won the Bayeux-Calvados Award For War Correspondents, was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine and one of the 30 New and Emerging Photographers by PDN Magazine.
Danfung Dennis directed and filmed his first feature-length documentary on the war in Afghanistan, Hell and Back Again and is the founder of an immersive video startup Condition ONE. His background is in Applied Economics and Business Management. Before working as a photojournalist and filmmaker, he consulted small and medium-sized enterprises in Uganda and South Africa.
Heather Courtney has directed and produced several documentary films including award-winners Letters From The Other Side and Los Trabajadores. With her current film, Where Soldiers Come From, she was a Sundance Edit and Story Lab fellow, and a 2009 recipient of the prestigious United States Artists fellowship. Her films have been funded by a Fulbright Fellowship, ITVS, the Sundance Documentary Fund, the Paul Robeson Fund, and the Texas Filmmakers Production Fund. She was recently named one of Film Independent's Top 10 Filmmakers to Watch.
Letters From The Other Side was the Closing Night film at the Slamdance Film Festival in January 2006, screened at numerous festivals around the world, and was broadcast on over 60 PBS stations. Los Trabajadores won the Audience Award at SXSW and the International Documentary Association David Wolper award, and was broadcast nationally on the PBS series Independent Lens. She was a co-director on Roger Weisberg's Critical Condition, which aired nationally on the PBS series POV in Fall 2008. She is also a member of the acclaimed film distribution cooperative New Day Films.
Prior to receiving her MFA in Film Production, she spent eight years writing and photographing for the United Nations and several refugee and immigrant rights organizations, including in the Rwandan refugee camps after the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Heather is from the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and is proud to call herself a Yooper.
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