PRODUCER: KURT PITZER is an author, journalist and producer whose Eating with the Enemy is being developed with Tribeca Productions; he wrote The Bomb in My Garden, which chronicles his efforts in Baghdad to help a nuclear scientist escape to the United States. He is recipient of the Lange-Taylor Prize for documentary work in the Balkans and is the author of many magazine and newspaper articles.
CINEMATOGRAPHER: HERMES MARCO is an award-winning Catalan cinematographer whose films (Toastmaster, Desierto Sur, Our Boys) have played festivals all over the world. Marco is currently shooting a feature documentary with director Paul Haggis. Marco also serves as the pedagogical director of Ciné Institute, Haiti’s only film school.
EDITOR: FRANCESC SITGES-SARDÀ is a Catalan editor based in Brooklyn, NY, who has received triple awards from the Málaga Spanish Film Festival and was nominated for an Emmy in 2013. He works with Harbor Picture Company and production companies all over the world.
EDITOR: MICHAEL TAYLOR is a veteran of the indie film scene.As an editor his films include Ira Sach’s Love Is Strange, Hateship Loveship starring Kristin Wiig, The Comedy and Freakonomics. Taylor’s career began as a script supervisor on films including Eat Drink Man Woman, Happiness, Monster’s Ball and American Splendor.
COMPOSERS: DANNY BENSI and SAUNDER JURRIAANS recently won a Genie, the Canadian Screen Award, for their original score for Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Their other credits include Martha Marcy May Marlene, Simon Killer, Magic Magic, Bluebird.
SOUND EDITOR: PAUL HSU of C5 Studios has designed and mixed sound for films including Bennet Miller's Foxcatcher, Life of Pi, Frances Ha, Red Hook Summer, and Robot & Frank
COLOR: NAT JENCKS of Outlier Post has done color for films including Barry Levinson’s The Humbling, starring Al Pacino and Greta Gerwig. Other credits include Fishing Without Nets, Thou Wast Mild and Lovely, and I Believe in Unicorns.
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: EMILIE RITZMANN was born in Tokyo, grew up in Japan and completed her MFA in production design from American Film Institute. She has worked in genres ranging from period pieces, horror, comedy, musical and drama. Her credits include Le Jeu des Soldats.
COSTUME DESIGNER: CARISA KELLY has collaborated with many Tony and Oscar winning actors, designers and directors. Her work has appeared internationally, including at Tribeca, Madrid, Dallas and Austin film festivals.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: PETER ASKIN is a director and producer known for Smithereens, Company Man, Trumbo, and the most recently the Stephen King adaptation, A Good Marriage, starring Kristen Connolly, Joan Allen, and Stephen Lang. He directed the original stage production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: WILL BATTERSBY is the producer of award-winning narrative and documentary films including The War Within and Trumbo. Will is currently in post-production on the documentary The Canal, produced in partnership with Steve Buscemi and Stanley Tucci. Other film credits include: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Steven Soderbergh’s Bubble and Diggers, and most recently the Stephen King adaptation, A Good Marriage, starring Kristen Connolly, Joan Allen, and Stephen Lang.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: JULIA CHASMAN is a veteran producer with more than a dozen films to her credit, including Quills, starring Geoffrey Rush and Kate Winslet; Antitrust; and Spike Lee’s 25th Hour. For many years, she also ran Industry Entertainment.