Blair Doroshwalther, Producer/Director
Blair Doroshwalther has directed two award-winning documentary shorts. In 2004 Blair was nominated for the Directors Guild of America’s East Coast Female Student Award and won New York University’s Adam Balsono Award for Social Significance at the First-Run Film Festival for her documentary Metsi. Hir documentary Cry Don’t Cry is distributed worldwide through Aquarius Videos and won the National Health Information Awards’ Silver Award in 2005. Blair’s passion is to create media that incites action dedicated to achieving social justice. Blair identifies as gender non conforming and goes by gender neutral pronouns.

Yoruba Richen, Producer
Yoruba Richen has been working as a journalist and a documentary filmmaker in New York City for the past ten years. Her film Promised Land – a documentary about race, reconciliation and land reform in post-apartheid South Africa- will be broadcast on the PBS series P.O.V in 2010. In 2007, Yoruba won a Fulbright award in filmmaking and traveled to Salvador, Brazil where she began production of Sisters of the Good Death – a documentary uncovering the origins of the oldest African women’s association in the Americas and the annual festival they hold celebrating the end of slavery. Before going to Brazil, Yoruba was a producer for the independent television and radio program Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman. She was also an associate producer in the investigative department of ABC News for four years. In addition, Yoruba was the co-producer of Take it From Me, a documentary exploring the effects of welfare reform on New York City women. The film was broadcast on P.O.V in 2001.

Giovanna Chesler, Transmedia Producer
Associate Producer and Transmedia Producer, Giovanna Chesler directed and produced the hour-long documentary PERIOD: THE END OF MENSTRUATION, the early transmedia project TUNE IN HPV, and the award winning short film trilogy BEAUTEOUS. She is Director of the Center for Producing at Marymount Manhattan College where she is an Associate Professor of Communication Arts, teaching documentary and web media activism.
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Scott Gracheff, Co-Producer
Scott Gracheff is an Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker who is dedicated to highlighting voices seldom heard in the mass media. He has produced and directed numerous documentaries for PBS over the last decade, including, Soldados – a film exploring the experience of Latino WWII soldiers – which earned a 2008 Emmy Award Nomination. In 2006 he directed Dave Tatsuno, Movies and Memories. This film won a 2006 San Francisco Peninsula Press Club documentary award. In 2003, Scott directed the Emmy Award winning, Return To The Valley – a documentary that explores the Japanese-American struggle to rebuild their community after WWII.
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Daniel Patterson, Director of Photography
Daniel Patterson received his first film internship on Spike Lee’s film 25th Hour. While at New York University, Daniel was the cinematographer on more than twenty short films, many of which won awards. He has worked for Oprah Winfrey, Spike DDB, and, most recently, the American Cancer Society. Daniel was the director of photography on three recent feature-length documentaries, Generation Crack, 25 to Life (Tribeca All Access Participant), and Evolution of a Criminal (Spike Lee Production Fellowship Award Recipient).
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