Lucy Bruell directed “Speaking with Music,” “Beyond the Practice Room,” and “On A Personal Note,” feature documentaries on young classical pianists that aired on public television. She was a producer/reporter for Newsweek Television and directed segments in Egypt and Greece for China Central Television’s series, “One World.” “A Visit with the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit,” narrated by Paul Newman received a Grand Award at the New York International Film and Video Festivals.

Lucy is a recipient of multiple grants including support from the National Institutes of Health, the 911 Children’s Fund, and the Littauer Foundation. She received an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University where she was the William Wood Research Fellow in Broadcast Journalism. She is an Instructor in the Division of Medical Humanities at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

Jarred Alterman is an award winning cinematographer and filmmaker who has worked in documentary, music and arts-related projects for over twenty years.

He won best cinematography at Tribeca for Contemporary Color, featuring David Byrne. Last year he lensed two films that were NY Times critics picks: Bisbee ’17 and The Proposal.

He produced and lensed Walled Unwalled dir. by aural investigator and political artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan, which played at New York Film Festival and won a Turner Prize at the Tate Modern.

He has shot films for Charles Atlas and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, filmed Arcade Fire on the Everything Now tour and continues to shoot for Art:21 on PBS.

This year’s credits include Michelle Obama’s Becoming, NY Times: The Weekly on Hulu and the reboot of Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix.

Ali Musoke is a feature and documentary DP based in Kampala, Uganda. He was the DP and a Producer on “N.G.O. Nothing Going On” which won best feature film at the Mashariki African Film Festival and earned a special jury mention at the Cartage Film Festival in Tunisia. His documentary portfolio includes projects for HBO, National Geographic, Vitamin Angels, and Save the Children. He was also a camera assistant on Mira Nair’s feature “Queen of Katwe.”

Jay Miracle, Editor, won a Primetime Emmy and the American Cinema Editors’ Award for “Hearts of Darkness, A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse.” He was an Editor/Writer on such projects as: “20 Feet from Stardom” and “Spirit Game,” and he was an additional Editor on the ITVS program: “Meet the Patels.” Jay co-directed and edited a feature on Norman Cousins: “The Healing Force,” and has written and/or edited several TV Specials, including “Diamonds” (on New York diamond dealers, and “The Colonel Comes to Japan,” on Kentucky Fried Chicken in Japan, which won an Emmy for Best Documentary). Jay produced, directed and wrote “The Imposters,” the Discovery Channel documentary which was nominated for a Primetime Emmy. He co-produced and was the sound recordist on the feature documentary “The Gates of Heaven” with Errol Morris.

Photography by Adam Battaglia

Samite is a world- renowned musician, performer, and humanist. Now living on a farm in upstate New York, Samite is a Ugandan refugee who travels the world to spread the healing power of music. He is the subject of the documentary, “Song of the Refugee,” distributed by PBS in 1998. Samite has released nine CDs internationally and in 2009, the film “Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai,” which features his original score, debuted nationally on PBS. More recently Samite collaborated with the filmmakers of “Alive Inside,” an award-winning documentary on the power of music to awaken the memories locked away in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.

Website: www.samite.com

Pola Rapaport is a writer, director, and editor of many award-winning films. Her work-in-progress is “Marike: Death and the Racer,” about a Belgian Paralympic athlete planning euthanasia. Recent work includes “Nadia Comaneci: The Gymnast and the Dictator,” “Hair: Let the Sun Shine In,” “Family Secret,” the story of the discovery of the filmmaker’s secret Romanian brother, and “Blind Light,” a hybrid documentary/drama of a photographer’s peak experience in an Italian villa, starring Edie Falco.

She is the editor of several feature documentaries, including “Museum Town,” which premiered in 2019 at SxSW and “Grace Paley; Collected Shorts.” She also edited SxSW Winner, “A Woman Like Me,” about facing a terminal disease, and Kathy Leichter’s “Here One Day.”

Zohar is a media artist, editor, and cinematographer. She is a graduate of New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). Her latest work, “Testimony,” is an interactive documentary for virtual reality that shares the stories of survivors of sexual assault and their journey to healing. It premiered at Tribeca Film Festival.

Gal Nissim is an interdisciplinary artist who bridges art, science, and technology to create interactive work that explores the dynamic relationship between nature, culture, and human-made environments. Nissim received her master’s degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Moses attended Kampala Film School. He worked in the sound department of the Disney film “Queen of Katwe” directed by Mira Nair and was the sound mixer for “Kyenvu” (Kemiyondo Coutinou, 2017). In 2015 he produced the feature film “N.G.O. Nothing Going On” (Arnold Aganze, 2015). Moses was also a production coordinator for Peripheral Vision International.