JESSE MOSS (PRODUCER)
Jesse Moss 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)
Susan Korda 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)
Vanessa Wanger collaborated as a producer with award-winning Chinese director Wang Quanan on Jingzhe a film that debuted at the Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama in 2004. Vanessa then joined Antidote Films in New York as Head of Development, and later collaborated with Original Media, when they produced the Oscar-nominated films, The Squid and the Whale and Half Nelson. In 2006, she produced a photography series about contemporary Chinese artists called Film Stills of the Mind. In 2007, she produced a short film in China, Tombee De Nuit Sur Shanghai by the Cesar nominated avant-garde filmmaker Chantal Akerman. In February 2009, Vanessa recently produced the narrative feature film directorial debut of Zeina Durra, The Imperialists are Still Alive!
TRACY BUNTING (ASSOCIATE PRODUCER)
Tracy Bunting 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.
BRETT WILEY (DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY)
Brett Wiley 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)
Martina Radwan began her career in the film industry in her native Germany. Ferry Tales’, a documentary she shot in collaboration with Katja Esson, was nominated for the 2004 Academy Award. Her current documentary projects include Through a Lens Darkly by the award winning director Thomas Allan Harris and Poetry of Resilience and Skywalker, both by Academy Nomine Katja Esson.
DIANE CHRISTIAN & BRUCE JACKSON (PROJECT ADVISORS)
Diane Christian and Bruce Jackson 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).
