Jesse Moss (producer)
is the founder of Mile End Films (www.mileendfilms.com),
a New York-based
production company. His award winning documentaries include
“Full Battle Rattle,” about the US Army’s Iraq
simulation in California’s Mojave Desert. The film premiered
at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival, won the
Special Jury Prize at the SXSW Film Festival, and opened
theatrically at New York’s Film Forum. It is currently
screening at festivals around the world. His other films
include “Speedo: A Demolition Derby Love Story,
(PBS/POV), and “Con Man,” (HBO/Cinemax). Prior
to establishing his own production company, Moss worked
as a producer for Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple and
a speechwriter on Capitol Hill. He was named one of 25
New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine in
2003.
Susan Korda (producer)
has worked as a writer, director and editor on documentary
and narrative films, including The Sweetest Sound (2002), Trembling
Before G-d (2001), One of Us (1999), Vienna
Is Different (1989) and the Academy Award nominated For
All Mankind (1989). She was born in New York and
raised in New York and Vienna, Austria. Between 1979
and 1984 she studied at the City College of New York/Picker
Film Institute. She made her first film, Filial Dreams,
in 1983. Since then she has been working as a director
and editor and been teaching at NYU's Tisch School of
the Arts and the International Filmschule, Cologne.
Vanessa Hope (executive
producer) started her film career producing in China on Wang Quanan’s film The Story of Ermei which debuted in Berlin 2004. Vanessa collaborated with Original Media when they produced the Oscar-nominated films, The Squid and the Whale and Half Nelson. Returning to China in 2006, Vanessa produced a photography series about contemporary artists, Film Stills of the Mind, and a short film, Tombee de Nui Sur Shanghai by Chantal Akerman. Recently, Vanessa produced a narrative feature film set in New York, The Imperialists Are Still Alive! by Zeina Durra and associate produced another New York feature, Twelve by Joel Schumacher. She is currently directing a documentary in China about US-China relations past, present and future called Soft Power.
Tracy Bunting (associate
producer) graduated from the University of California,
Berkeley in 2005 with a BA in History and from NYU with
an MA in Archives and Public History in 2008. In 2005,
Tracy worked with co-artists Amy Larimer and Peter Bernheim
on their sculpture, 12151791, for the McCormick Freedom
Museum. Now an Associate Producer on the film, Tracy
joined the Disturbing the Universe team in 2007.
Andrew Lutsky (associate
producer) completed an M.A. in education at Columbia University's Teachers College in 2003 and has taught in New York City public schools for thirteen years. He is also a videographer. He joined Disturbing the Universe in 2007 and currently is coediting an oral history reader as part of the film's educational outreach.
Brett Wiley (director
of photography) has been a documentary cameraman since
1992. He was the Director of Photography on four special
editions for Bill Moyers, two of which were nominated
for Emmy Awards. Wiley was the cinematographer for three
documentaries accepted to the Sundance Film Festival: Sound
and Fury (nominated for an Academy Award), Let
the Church Say Amen and Why We Fight (winner
of the Sundance Jury Award for Best Documentary).
Martina Radwan (director of photography) has worked as a Director of Photography for feature films and documentaries since 1995. Ferry Tales, a documentary short she shot in collaboration with Katja Esson, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2004. Her current documentary projects include Through a Lens Darkly by award winning director Thomas Allan Harris and Poetry of Resilience and Skywalker, both by Katja Esson.
Shahzad Ismaily (composer) is a composer and performer living in New York City. He was recently artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, the Sundance Institute (film composer’s lab) and UC Berkeley. He composed the score for the film Frozen River, winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize. He performs and records regularly with Marc Ribot, Jolie Holland, Laurie Anderson, Will Oldham, John Zorn, Raz Mesinai, and Yoko Ono.
Jon Alpert (project
advisor) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and
has produced groundbreaking films on Cuba, Vietnam, Iran,
Afghanistan, Nicaragua, the Soviet Union, Tiananmen Square
in China and the homeless in America. In addition to
his work as a filmmaker and journalist, Alpert serves
as co-director of the Downtown Community Television Center
(DCTV) in New York City, a non-profit organization that
trains over 2000 students in video project each year.
Diane Christian and Bruce
Jackson (project advisors) are SUNY Distinguished
Professors at SUNY Buffalo, and have produced numerous
documentaries, many of which deal with race and criminal
justice: Afro-American Worksongs in a Texas Prison (30
min., 1966); Services Rendered (60 min., 1979); Death
Row (60 min., 1979); Robert Creeley: Willy’s
Reading (16 min., 1982) William August May (18
min., 1982); Out of Order (89 min., 1983); and Creeley (59
min., 1988).
Cast:
Herman Badillo
Dennis Banks
Harry Belafonte
Clyde Bellecourt
Father Daniel Berrigan
Phil Donahue
Jimmy Breslin
Alan Dershowitz
Elizabeth Fink
Jean Fritz
Karin Kunstler Goldman
Tom Hayden
Bruce Jackson
Gregory Joey Johnson
Ron Kuby
Margaret Ratner Kunstler
William Kunstler
Nancy Kurshan
Gerald Lefcourt
Rev. Vernon C. Mason
Bill Means
Michael Ratner
Paul Red
Yusef Salaam
Bobby Seale
Barry Slotnick
Michael Smith
Lynne Stewart
M. Wesley Swearingen
Madonna Thunderhawk
Len Weinglass
