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MAX STEIN
Director
ADRIAN BURRELL
Producer
Adrian Burrell is an avid storyteller from Oakland, California. Adrian holds a BFA in Film from the San Francisco Art Institute, and an MFA in Documentary Film from Stanford University. | adrianburrell.com
EUGENE CORR
Consulting Producer
Eugene Corr is an Academy Award nominated filmmaker and screenwriter whose credits include Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter’s Journey (Feature Documentary Academy Award nominee, 1991) and Desert Bloom, a motion picture starring Jon Voight (Columbia Pictures, 1986). In the 80s and 90s, Corr directed episodic television, including Crime Story, Miami Vice, and Arli$$. In his teens and twenties, Corr was a factory worker. He started his career in film in 1973 as a member of Cine Manifest, a radical San Francisco film group. His documentary, Ghost Town to Havana (2015) premiered at the Hollywood Film Festival in September 2015.
ABBY GINZBERG
Consultant
Abby Ginzberg has been producing award-winning documentaries about race and social justice for the past 30 years. Her films have illuminated the lives of people whose steadfast commitment to justice is at the heart of their stories. Her most recent award-winning documentary, Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa just won a prestigious Peabody Award. The film has screened at film festivals around the world, winning two audience awards for Best International Documentary and the Grand Prize Humanitarian Award from the Accolade Film Awards. She was the Consulting Producer on The Barber of Birmingham, which premiered at Sundance, was nominated for an Oscar® in the Short Doc category in 2012 and aired on POV.
GARY WEIMBERG
Consulting Editor
Gary Weimberg has spent the last two decades making award-winning documentaries as an editor, director, and producer. He has won two national Emmy Awards (Earth and the American Dream (1992); Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob (1994)) Two other documentaries that he edited two were nominated for Academy Awards (Memorial 1989; and Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren (1989)). In 1999 he was nominated as Outstanding Documentary Director by the Director's Guild of America for his controversial political documentary, The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez-Gomez (1999), PBS 1999; a program that contributed directly to the Presidential Pardon and release of 12 political prisoners who had already served 19 years in prison. From 2004-2006, as part of Luna Productions, he has produced a series of documentaries for non-profit organizations that have helped to raise over $1.4 million for worthy causes and co-produced/directed/edited two feature documentaries: Three Women And A Chateau (a 100 year history of a 100 room mansion) and Soldiers Of Conscience (a look at the morality of killing in times of war, through the experiences of US soldiers in war in Iraq).
KEN SCHNEIDER
Consulting Editor
Ken Schneider is a Peabody award winner who believes in the power of film to affect hearts and minds. For 25 years, Ken has produced, directed and edited documentaries, focusing on war and peace, human rights, artists’ lives, unearthing buried American history, and contemporary social issues. Ken co-edited the Oscar-nominated Regret To Inform, a film the New York Times described as “unforgettable … exquisitely filmed, edited and scored.” His films have appeared on PBS’ American Masters, POV, Independent Lens, Frontline, Voces, on HBO, Showtime, Al-Jazeera, and in television and film festivals worldwide. He edits in English and Spanish. Films he edited have won Primetime and documentary Emmys, two Peabodys, a Columbia-Dupont, IDA (International Documentary Association) awards, an Indie Spirit, top awards at Sundance, other major festival awards, and have been nominated for an Oscar and additional Emmys.
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