Cynthia is the co-founder of Next Generation Productions, an organization that gives inner-city students direct mentoring experience with film professionals. Inspired by this experience, Cynthia pursued her film studies at UC Santa Cruz where she directed several short films and produced a documentary on drug and alcohol use on the UC campuses, which was used as a learning tool for residential staff nation wide. After college, Cynthia taught an art therapy program for mentally ill and recovering addicts in Brooklyn, NY. Cynthia has also worked with HBO Documentaries and such films as: Rikers High, Annapolis, Elvis By The Presleys, and The Fountain. My Mothers Garden is her feature length directorial debut which will be completed by the end of 2007. Cynthia is also currently working with GEMS, (girls educations and mentoring services), as a supportive services coordinator helping girls on the street get a chance at a better life. www.gems-girls.org
The Sundance Institute recognizing her as a visionary independent producer, named Susannah Ludwig the 2003 Mark Silverman Fellow. She is the owner/producer of Flourish Films a New York Based company that produces documentary and narrative films. Her current slate of projects includes MY MOTHERS GARDEN, directed by Cynthia Lester, MEAT WORLD, directed by Stephanie Black and RECLINING NUDE, directed by Rebecca Dreyfus. The story of the largest unsolved art heist in American history is the subject of Ludwigs most recent documentary film, entitled STOLEN. STOLEN opened theatrically in over 50 cities and was aired as part of PBSs acclaimed Independent Lens series, in March 2007. Ms. Ludwig has been a major force in the realization of numerous critically acclaimed films including Our Song, directed by Jim McKay, The Ballad of Ramblin Jack, directed by Aiyana Elliott, Spring Forward, directed by Tom Gilroy and La Ciudad, directed by David Riker. In addition to her feature and television work, Ludwig often acts as producer on corporate videos and commercials. She is on the adjunct faculty at Long Island University where she teaches documentary film production.
Elisabeth studied documentary film in high school, as a major at Vassar College, and for a Masters Degree at City College in New York. She has worked steadily in the industry for ten years, transitioning quickly from production assistant to associate producer for several documentaries about topics including Arafat & Sharon, 9/11, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, and Paul McCartney, which have aired on The Discovery Channel, NBC, ABC, and PBS. She has worked as an associate producer on 48 Hours at CBS and also produced an online series called Jericho Countdown which has recently received a special Emmy nomination. Her independent film The Hermit Of Manana won Best Documentary Cinematography and Best Documentary Editing at the 2006 CityVisions Film Festival in New York, and has travelled to numerous film festivals. Elisabeth produced a two-hour CBS documentary special, and best selling DVD, called Elvis By The Presleys and is developing several new long form projects in addition to completing My Mothers Garden.
Co-founder/owner of SeeThrough Films, located in Tribeca Manhattan. Born and raised in Israel, Adi got her start producing films in her home country, including numerous productions for the Israeli Defense Forces. Adis film, Dead Stars was nominated for Best Achievement by a Female Director by the Directors Guild of America, nominated for Best Directed Film at the 2001 Dusty Film Festival in NY, and was an Official Selection at the LA International Film Festival, the Tel Aviv International Film Festival, and the NoDance Film Festival in Utah.
Jeremy Stulberg is an American film director and editor whose most recent film "Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa" premiered at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival, and is currently playing at film festivals throughout North America and Europe. The film recently won The Michael Moore Award from the Film Society of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Previously, Jeremy was the Editor and Associate Producer for "The Education of Shelby Knox" (PBSs POV), which premiered in competition at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. The film also won the audience award at SXSW and the Full Frame Documentary Festival. Jeremy edited the narrative feature film Another Gay Movie starring Graham Norton and Scott Thompson, released theatrically in the summer of 2006. He was also the associate editor of In Memoriam: New York City: 9/11/01 (HBO), which won an Emmy for Outstanding Picture Editing for Non-Fiction Programming. Jeremy is a 2006 New York State Council on the Arts grantee. He is a graduate of the Institute of Film and Television at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
Co-Founder/owner of SeeThrough Films located in Tribeca, Manhattan, Alessandra was raised in the Netherlands and moved to new York to study film at the School of Visual Arts. Her directorial/editorial debut, a film entitled Anduin & Lorien received nominations in Best Film, Best Use of Technology and has featured in festivals such as The Dusty Film Festival, Seaside Film Festival, International Festival of Cinema & Technology, in New York, Los Angeles, London, and Paris. Her most recent credits include lead editor on the CBS TV special Elvis By The Presleys
T. Griffin is a composer, producer and songwriter based in Brooklyn New York. He has released four critically acclaimed CDs of songs on the Shiny Little record label, most recently Lit By Your Phone under the band name The Quavers. Griffin has contributed his immersive and intricate scoring to many projects, including films by Jem Cohen (NYC Weights and Measures), Esther B. Robinson (A Walk into the Sea), Peter Sillen (Alices House), Michael Almereyda (New Orleans, Mon Amour) and Daniel Lohaus (When I Came Home) as well as a full score for Anne Bogarts radical staging of A Midsummer Nights Dream. He has also collaborated with musical luminaries such as Patti Smith, Vic Chesnutt, Tom Verlaine, members of Fugazi and godspeed you! black emperor, and The Ex. He has created live film and music events with Jem Cohen, Lance Weiler, animator Brent Green, photographer Michael Ackerman, and with Esther B. Robinson for the 60s Factory films of Danny Williams.
Eric Watson studied Motion Picture Production at the American Film Institute. In 1997 produced his first feature, which debuted at the Sundance film Festival in 1998 and earned Watson an IFP/West Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature. Watson also produced Requiem for a Dream, which was named one of the Top Ten Films of 2000 by the The New York Times, Rolling Stone and Entertainment Weekly. Watson also served as executive producer on Rob Schmidt's feature debut, Saturn, and producer on David Twohy's Below and producer on Darren Aronofksy's The Fountain.