GEETA GANDBHIR (Director) is an award-winning director, producer and editor. Her most recently directed short documentary CALL CENTER BLUES (SXSW 2020) was shortlisted for an Academy Award. In 2019 she directed the series WHY WE HATE with Amblin Entertainment and Jigsaw Productions for Discovery. Also as director, she won Best Documentary at the News and Doc Emmys for I AM EVIDENCE (2017, HBO), and Best Government and Politics Documentary for ARMED WITH FAITH (2018, PBS). Other award-winning feature docs she co-directed include PRISON DOGS (Tribeca 2016), and A JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES: PEACEKEEPERS (TIFF 2015, PBS). She also co-directed and edited the film, REMEMBERING THE ARTIST: ROBERT DENIRO SR. with Perri Peltz (Sundance 2014, HBO). As editor, she won a Primetime Emmy for Best Editing for Spike Lee's HBO documentary series WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE (2006) and also for the HBO film BY THE PEOPLE, THE ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA (2009). A documentary film she co-produced, THE SENTENCE (2018, HBO), also won a Special Jury Primetime Emmy. Geeta created, co-directed, and co-produced a series on race with The New York Times Op-Docs titled THE CONVERSATION which won the AFI Documentary Film Festival and a MacArthur Grant. She has also been the recipient of a Ford Foundation grant and Chicken and Egg’s prestigious Breakthrough Filmmaker Award.

RUDY VALDEZ (Director and Director of Photography) is an Emmy Award-winning Michigan-raised, New York City-based filmmaker committed to creating social, cultural, and political stories through a cinematic and meaningful lens. He got his start in film as a Camera Operator on the Peabody Award-winning, Sundance series BRICK CITY and went onto direct a true passion project, THE SENTENCE (HBO). Shot and directed by Valdez over the course of a decade, this feature documentary tells the very personal story of his sister’s plight in the criminal justice system while tackling subjects like mandatory minimums and sentencing reform. For this work, the filmmaker won the 2019 Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, US Documentary Audience Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was a 2018 Critics Choice Documentary Awards Best New Director nominee. Most recently, Valdez’s 4-part docu-series WE ARE: THE BROOKLYN SAINTS (produced by Imagine Documentaries), is currently streaming on Netflix and he recently sold a genre TV series he created to Amazon that is loosely based on his family and life experiences.

VIRIDIANA LIEBERMAN (Editor) is a filmmaker and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She edited the feature documentary I AM EVIDENCE (Tribeca 2017, HBO), which won a 2019 News & Doc Emmy for Best Documentary and the short documentary LOVE THE SINNER (Tribeca 2017). She also co-directed FATTITUDE, a feature documentary that exposes how popular culture fosters fat prejudice and then offers an alternative way of thinking. She edited SPECIAL OLYMPICS: 50 YEARS OF CHANGING THE GAME which aired in 2018 on ABC and ESPN and THE SENTENCE (HBO), which won the 2018 Sundance Film Festival US Documentary Audience Award and the 2019 Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. In 2019, she edited STONEWALL: THE MAKING OF A MONUMENT for New York Times Op-Docs.

Producers
Anya Rous
Jess Devaney

Co-Producer
Lisa Valencia-Svensson

Associate Producers
Colleen Cassingham
Paulette Marte
Jot Sahi

Finishing Artist
Juan Salvo

Supervising Sound Editor
Filipe Messeder

Assistant Editor
Victor Artesona

Original Music By
Laura Heinzinger