Anita is a Peabody Award-winning filmmaker who has worked in documentary filmmaking for over a decade. She received a master’s degree from American University’s Documentary Program. She served as a Co- Producer of Mad Dog Film’s Joe Jackson’s Trail (2003). Womack served as the Managing Producer for WNET’s Running: The Campaign for City Council (2002). She served as an Associate Producer on HBO’s Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks (2000). Womack also worked as the Associate Producer for HBO Sports’ Ali-Frazier I: One Nation Divisible, earning a Peabody Award.

Denise is currently working in Development for Orlando Bagwell’s media company, LakeHouse Films. Denise most recently served as a producer on Shola Lynch’s Angela Davis documentary entitled Free Angela & All Political Prisoners, which opened to rave reviews at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival. Denise also produced two hours of Pioneers of Thirteen, an anniversary series celebrating fifty years of WNET/Channel Thirteen, one of PBS’ premiere channels. Prior to these recent releases, Denise was a consultant for the Ford Foundation’s Just Films Initiative, a $50 million grant program supporting social-issue films.

Rick is a multiple Emmy Award winning director and cameraman with over 25 years experience. Butler won an Emmy for his direction of the PBS documentary The Fillmore. His camera work has supported films for several flagship PBS series: Frontline (e.g. School Colors, 1995), American Experience (e.g. Freedom Riders, 2011), American Masters (e.g. Paul Robeson: Here I Stand, 1998). Butler has shot many independent documentary films that have aired on PBS and in general broadcast and educational distribution. Additionally, Butler has extensive experience in the corporate and entertainment fields, including direction of several documentary shorts that accompany Pixar films on DVD. Rick is most proud of films promoting positive social change such as his work on The Color of Fear, Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible and a project in progress with activist Van Jones that examines environmental justice, Green Shall Overcome.

Jessie Dorfman is a film editor based in New York City and Philadelphia. She began her filmmaking career in San Francisco amidst a thriving documentary film scene, and quickly gravitated toward post-production, editing her first feature documentary in 2001. Since then, Jessie has edited a wide range of both documentary and narrative work, and has created commercial spots for companies such as Weight Watchers, Gallo Wine and Stanford University. Jessie recently completed editing Cal Skagg’s documentary A Road To Home, a vérité film that follows six LGBT homeless youth in New York City.

Also a filmmaker, Jessie’s films have screened in festivals across the country, including the New York Jewish Film Festival and the Santa Cruz Film Festival. Jessie brings a director’s vision and a background in psychology and music to her editing work. She holds an MFA in Film Production from The University of Texas at Austin.

Mark is a 3D animator and art director with 16 years experience. He has contributed visual effects and animation for films by Spike Lee, Susan Seidalman and Todd Solondz.Mark has supervised and led teams of animators on award winning series, commercials and promos. Clients have included HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, ABC, NBC, CBS, Discovery, NatGeo, and many cable networks.

A graduate of Cooper Union, Mark came to animation from a sculptural back- ground. He has worked as a sculptor/mold maker for the American Museum of Natural History.