Chana Gazit (Co-director/Co-producer)

Chana Gazit is an award-winning documentary producer/director/writer. Her films have been honored with multiple EMMY nominations and three EMMY Awards. Her work has also been recognized by the Alfred duPont- Columbia Journalism Awards, Peabody Awards, Writers Guild Awards, and Sundance Film Festival. Some of her career highlights include two Public Television series: a biography of Franklin Roosevelt and a biography of Lyndon Johnson; and seven films for the history series, American Experience: Chicago ‘68, Surviving the Dust Bowl, Meltdown at Three Mile Island, Fatal Flood, The Pill, Test Tube Babies, and The Forgotten Plague. Her work has also been featured in major stand-alone series including: Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers, Slavery & the Making of America, Destination America, and This Emotional Life. In 2019, she produced an exposé on the impact of captivity on the killer whales at SeaWorld. She completed two films in 2020: her eighth film for American Experience, The Codebreaker, which was broadcast on January 11th 2021, and the independent film Ballerina Boys.

Martie Barylick (Co-director/Co-producer)

Martie Barylick is on the faculty of NYU’s Graduate Program in Dance Education. She has taught dance since 1974, when she founded the PACE Program, an integrated performing arts elective program at Mamaroneck High School in Mamaroneck, NY. That program was named by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund as one of the ten best public school arts programs in the nation. At Mamaroneck, she produced 900 student-choreographed dances and was the subject of the Getty documentary “Teaching In and Through the Arts.” A graduate of Brown University and a Certified Movement Analyst, Martie has published articles in Daedalus, Movement Studies, and the Journal of Dance Education. The focus of her scholarship has been the intersection of adolescent development and dance education.

Claudia Raschke (Director of Photography)

Most recently the DP of Academy-Award-nominated RBG (Magnolia/Partisan/CNN), award-winning cinematographer Claudia Raschke is best known for her ability to bring the rich tones of the motion picture medium to a diverse spectrum of films, from highly stylized commercial endeavors to feature documentaries to lower-budget works of art. Among her many notable award-winning films are: Particle Fever (Bond), Oscar-nominated God is the Bigger Elvis (HBO), Peabody Award-winning Black Magic (ESPN), Oscar short-listed Mad Hot Ballroom (Paramount), Atomic Homefront (HBO), The Freedom to Marry (Argot Pictures), A Sea Change (Discovery), Oscar-nominated My Architect (add’l DP), Oscar-nominated Small Wonder (add’l DP), Oscar-nominated Sister Rose’s Passion (add’l DP) as well as indie features like Kiss Me Guido (Paramount), The Last Good Time (Samuel Goldwyn), No Way Home. She is currently completing a portrait of Anthony Fauci.

E. Donna Shepherd (Editor)

Donna is an award-winning editor whose work has been featured in some of the most prestigious series on the documentary landscape. These include for PBS: Soundbreaking (8 hour special); A Path Appears with Nicholas Kristof (3 hours); Carrier (10 hours); Circus (4 hours); Half the Sky (4 hours); Lincoln @ Gettysburg. For HBO: The Emmy-award winning Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present; Missing and Murdered, Atlanta’s Lost Children (5 hours). For Discovery: Why We Hate (6 hours Executive Producers: Steven Spielberg & Alex Gibney); All the President’s Men Revisited. For CNN: Soundtracks: Songs that Defined History (8 hours.) Additionally, her credits include numerous programs for A & E, MSNBC, Bravo, and VH1.