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EDITOR, CO-PRODUCER: JONATHAN OPPENHEIM
Jonathan Oppenheim’s editing credits include Sister Helen, which won the documentary directing award at Sundance and Children Underground, a film he co-produced, which was nominated for an Oscar and won the Sundance Special Jury Prize, Gotham and IDA awards. He edited Paris Is Burning, awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and tthe New York Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Criticsand IDA Awards. His other credits include Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love, Out of the Shadow (PBS), Caught in the Crossfire (PBS), and co-producer as well as editor for Phyllis and Harold byCindy Kleine.

Oppenheim was the co-editor of Strongman, winner of the 2009 Slamdance Grand Jury award for Best Documentary Feature and Arguing The World, for which he and producer/director, Joseph Dorman received a Peabody Award. Oppenheim edited and co-produced The Oath. In 2011, Oppenheim lectured on the art of documentary at The New Museum and mentored Eastern European Filmmakers at the Ex Oriente Lab in Prague. He has served as an advisor at the Sundance Documentary Editing Lab and made numerous presentations to film students at NYU, Yale and Columbia.
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DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: TOM HURWITZ
Tom Hurwitz is a two-time Emmy Award winner. He received Sundance and Jerusalem Film Festival Awards for Best Cinematography and has directed photography in films that have won four academy awards and several nominations, including Dancemaker and Killing in the Name.

Over the last 25 years, his television programs have won Emmy, Dupont, Peabody, Directors Guild and film festival awards for Best Documentary. He won the Emmy award for Best Documentary Special Jerome Robbins and Best Documentary series for Franklin, both on PBS. Hurwtiz’s other award-winning films and programs include: Valentino: The Last Emperor, Harlan County USA, Wild Man Blues, My Generation, Down and Out in America, The Turandot Project, Liberty, Franklin, Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero, for PBS; I Have a Dream, for ABC; and Killing in the Name and Questioning Faith, for HBO. He won the Cine Golden Eagle for Bombs will Make the Rainbow Break. Hurwitz is a founding member of the faculty of the MFA Program in the Social Documentary, at New York’s School of Visual Arts.
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MUSIC: BRUCE ODLAND
Sonic thinker, composer, and sound artist — is known for his large scale, public space sound installations which transform city noise into harmony, real- time. In 2004 he and Sam Auinger (O+A) altered the harmonic mix of the World Financial Center Plaza using the moon, tides, harmonic tuning tubes, and cement loudspeakers (Blue Moon). Together they have changed the sonic character of many public spaces around the world. His many collaborations include work with Laurie Anderson, Dan Graham, Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Peter Sellars, Joanne Akailitis, Robert Woodruff, Tony Oursler, Peter Erskine, and the Wooster Group. He has contributed ideas and energy to projects in theatre, film, dance, public art, festivals, radio, and museums. His Sounds from the Vaults, a playable orchestra of virtual instruments for the Field Museum in Chicago, won the Gold Muse Award from the Association of American Museums. Recently his first indoor gallery show, Hearing Space was shown, O+A’s Requiem for Fossil Fuels was performed to acclaim at Judson Memorial Church in NYC, and he toured as musical director of Wooster Group’s La Didone to the Edinburgh Festival. Currently he is working on Harmony in the Age of Noise, a cross disciplinary project at Tufts University mapping the psychoacoustics of the campus.
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ANIMATION: LISA CRAFTS
Lisa Crafts is an award winning animator whose independent work has screened on television, and at museums, theaters and festivals worldwide. Her recent short, The Flooded Playground played the festival circuit, including Slamdance, and enjoyed a theatrical run at Film Forum in New York City. Her credits on feature documentaries include animation for Cindy Kleine’s Phyllis and Harold, Michel Negroponte’s Methadonia, WISOR, I’m Dangerous with Love, and American Masters documentary, Louisa May Alcott, The Woman Behind Little Women. She created animated segments for PBS’s Electric Company, American Movie Classics, music television, and Sesame Street, for which she received two Daytime Emmys.
Crafts has received grants and fellowships from The Guggenheim Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and The MacDowell Colony. She teaches in the Film/Video department at Pratt Institute.
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CO-PRODUCER: SUSAN LAZARUS
Susan Lazarus is one of New York’s first independent post-production supervisors, working on films including Mississippi Masala (Mira Nair), Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins), The Boxer (Jim Sheridan), and Naqoyqatsi (Godfrey Reggio), The Door in the Floor (Tod Williams), Inside Man (Spike Lee) and The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch). Her associate Producer credits include Phyllis and Harold (Cindy Kleine) and Before You Go (Nicole Betancourt, HBO).

Lazarus was Producer with Josh Waletzky of the documentary feature Image Before My Eyes, funded by The National Endowment for the Humanities. She was Co-Producer of the documentary Apache 8 and supervised post-production on Borderline Films’ Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin) and Simon Killer (Antonio Campos). She is a past Board Member of New York Women in Film & Television, and former Co-Chairwoman of the Women’s Film Preservation Fund.
Susan Lazarus on IMDB

SOUND RECORDIST: PETER MILLER
Peter Miller has recorded sound for many acclaimed feature documentaries and television programs. He has worked on four Academy Award winners, including Best Boy, The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table, Into The Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport and He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin’. Among Miller's other feature credits are Oscar-nominated Paul Taylor: Dancemaker, Barbara Kopple's Wild Man Blues, The Academy Award-nominated Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse, Best Man (the sequel to Best Boy), The Making of Turandot, Voices of Sarafina, and Dancing For Mr. B: Six Balanchine Ballerinas. Most recently he has completed work on Matt Heineman and Susan Froemke’s Escape Fire: the Fight To Rescue American Healthcare and Macky Alston’sLove Free Or Die. In addition, Mr. Miller has been nominated for eight Emmy Awards for best sound, winning one for his work on the children's series 3-2-1 Contact.
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RE-RECORDING MIXER: SEAN GARNHART
Sean Garnhart is a freelance sound designer and re-recording mixer working in Los Angeles and New York City for almost 20 years. His current resume lists more than 100 feature films and television shows. So far, he has won the colleague-voted Golden Reel Award for best sound design and mixing three times and received five additional nominations. In 2006 his sonic artistry helped an animated short receive the coveted Oscar Nomination. Some of Sean’s most notable projects are the movies Ice Age, Robots, Doubt, Julie & Julia, Hot Rod, and the Coen Brothers’ classic, O Brother, Where Art Thou?

In addition to his sound work, Sean has also written original music for more than five movies including Extreme Measures, Robots, and Boys Don’t Cry. In 1997 he released an instrumental compact disc showcasing his own original music. The CD, entitled Exact Indecision, is a cross between Jazz and Easy Listening. Sean followed that collection of work in 2006 with an all-acoustic-piano CD called, Thoughts From The Balcony. His most successful CD to date is his recently released Christmas album entitled, Christmas, a long time coming.
Sean Garnhart on IMDB

 

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