Lawrence Konner has had a long and distinguished career as a screenwriter and documentary filmmaker. With his partner, Mark Rosenthal, Konner has written the feature films "The Jewel of the Nile," "The Legend of Billie Jean," "Desperate Hours," "Mighty Joe Young," "Mercury Rising," and "Planet of the Apes." Their most recent film, "Mona Lisa Smile," starred Julia Roberts and was released in December 2003.

In television, Konner was the head writer on the series "Little House on the Prairie" and "Family." In 2001 Konner received an Emmy Award nomination for Best Dramatic Writing for his work on the HBO series "The Sopranos."

In 1995, Konner produced and directed a documentary short, "One Thing I Know," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, screened at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the Special Jury Prize at the U.S.A. Film Festival. In 2003 Konner produced "Persons of Interest", a feature length documentary about the illegal detentions of thousands of Muslims in the aftermath of September 11th.

Konner is a former member of the Board of Directors of The Writers Guild of America, and a former Creative Director at the Sundance Institute. He is a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Astra Taylor was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1979 and raised in Athens, Georgia. She currently divides her energy between scholarly pursuits and politically focused documentary filmmaking.

She holds an MA in Liberal Studies from the New School for Social Research and has been an instructor in sociology departments at the University of Georgia and State University of New York, New Paltz where she has taught classes on social theory, globalization, and the sociology of film. Her writing has appeared in the Monthly Review, the Nation, and Salon. In the spring of 2006 the New Press will publish her first book, an analysis of the contradictory and inspirational legacy of the 1960s for those who have come of age in the decade's shadow.

In 2001 she spent two months in southern Senegal with a partner producing and directing (and later editing) "The Miracle Tree: Moringa Oleifera", a 45-minute documentary shot on digital video. The project was commissioned by an international NGO to record efforts of a local sustainable development project to alleviate the plight of infant malnutrition.

In the summer of 2002 she joined the Documentary Campaign, a New York City based not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the production and distribution of documentary films that promote social justices and human rights, to associate produce the Campaign's first feature. Directed by Allison Maclean ("Jesus' Son"), "Persons of Interest" is about the round up and detention of Muslims and Arabs in the aftermath of September 11th. The film was an official selection at the 2004 Sundance, Rotterdam, and Human Rights Watch film festivals and won the Amnesty International Humanitarian Award at the Chicago International Documentary Film Festival.

In the fall of 2003, Astra began production of "Zizek!". The Documentary Campaign's third project, "Zizek!" is her feature directorial debut.

She founded Hidden Driver Pictures with Laura Hanna in early 2005.

Laura Hanna is a co-founder of Hidden Driver Pictures.

She has worked in film/television in New York City for the past five years doing post production mixing, editing, sound design, as well as installation and location recording. The following is a partial list of projects she has worked on in the previous mentioned capacities: "Road to Paris" (CBS 2002), "Shots in the Dark" (CTV 2002), "JustifiableHomicide" (2002), "A Day in the Life of Africa" (2003), "The Perpetual Life Of Jim Albers" (Sundance 2003), "Academy Awards Open" (Errol Morris 2003), "Hollywood High" (AMC 2003), "Some Kind of Monster" (DVD for feature Sundance 2004). She is the editor of the documentary "Zizek!". She currently plays music with Hannah Marcus (Bar-None).

Martina Radwan started in her native Germany in the film industry in 1987 as a Camera Technician at ARRI, Berlin. In 1988 she began to work in production as an Assistant Camera, where she worked with DP's like Robby Mueller, Juergen Juerges and Sophy Mantigneux and directors like Wim Wenders and Albert Maysles.

In 1995 she moved to New York where she attended the film program at NYU. She broke into the industry as an AC for Lisa Rinzler and Wolfgang Held and started to work as 2nd Unit DP or operator for high-end production. In 1999 she attended a workshop with Gordon Willis.

At the same time she started to work as a Director of Photography and shoot features, documentaries and shorts. Her documentaries, such as "Vertical Traveler" and "Ferry Tales", have been seen in numerous festivals and on PBS and HBO along with many of her shorts. Her work includes collaborations with directors like Rebecca Miller, Allison Maclean, Jenny Livingston, Pola Rappaport and Tina DiFeliciantonio.

In 2001 she worked with Ellen Kuras as 2nd Camera Operator on "Personal Velocity," a feature directed by Rebecca Miller and produced by InDiGent. The film won the Cinematographer Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and The Grand Jury prize for Best Film in 2002.

In 2002 she completed one feature in LA and one feature in New York. She has traveled around the world for human rights documentaries and started to shoot commercials.

Currently she is working on a longterm documentary about the Dalton school and prepping for a feature in Lebanon. In early 2004 "Ferry Tales," on which Radwan was DP, was nominated for an Academy Award.

Jesse Epstein received an MA in documentary film and gender studies from NYU. She has directed, produced, field produced, and filmed documentary projects nationally and in Africa, India, and the Netherlands. She has worked extensively with the Media Activist organizations Deep Dish TV, Papertiger TV, and the Independent Media Center. Her PSA on teenage girls and body image appeared at the Media that Matters Film Festival, in conjunction with the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, and on the Oxygen Channel for Women. Her film "Wet Dreams and False Images" about media manipulation and body received the Jury Award for Short Subject in the Online Section of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, and the Best Use of Technology Award from the Urban Literary Film Festival in North Carolina. The film has also been selected by other film festivals including the New Orleans Film Festival, The San Francisco Independent Film Festival and The Full Frame Documentary Festival. She is the founder of GSS. Productions, a youth video program in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Jesse has also worked with the International Rescue Committee and Global Action Project to produce film projects with refugee youth.

Molly Schwartz was born in New York City, raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and studied painting at the school of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has lived in Chicago, Los Angeles, Nepal and currently resides in Brooklyn where she works as a professional animator. In addition to being an animator, compositor and designer, she is also a painter, potter and photo-taker.

Jeremy Barnes has played with Neutral Milk Hotel, Broadcast, Bablicon and Guignol. He is, like his music, nomadic. In the past year alone, has lived in England, Prague and New Mexico, gradually gathering the many instruments, musicians and ethnographies that would ultimately appear on "Darkness At Noon", his most recent album released under the moniker A Hawk And A Hacksaw (released on The Leaf Label).