Miriam Bale — Miriam Bale is a New York-based film programmer and writer. Before working in film, she was a music industry talent scout in London and a museum arts educator in California. She has organized film programs at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Maysles Film Institute, 92Y and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Her criticism and interviews have appeared in Film Comment, Moving Image Source, GQ.com, Filmmaker and The L. She edits the online feminist film journal Joan’s Digest, and the founding director of the La Di Da Film Festival.

Livia Bloom — Livia Bloom is the Director of Exhibition and Broadcast at Icarus Films, a leading distributor of documentaries for over 35 years. She is also the curator of “Documentary in Bloom,” a series of U.S. Theatrical Premieres at the Maysles Institute. Bloom edited the book Errol Morris: Interviews and her writing regularly appears in the journals Cinema Scope and Filmmaker Magazine. She has presented programs at institutions including the Museum of the Moving Image, the Nantucket Film Festival, The Museum of Modern Art and The Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Kirby Dick — Kirby Dick is an Academy- and Emmy Award-nominated documentary director. His most recent film, “The Invisible War,” a groundbreaking investigation into the epidemic of rape in the U.S. military, won the Audience Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and has been nominated for an Academy Award.  In 2009, Dick was nominated for an Emmy for Outrage, a searing indictment of the hypocrisy of powerful, closeted politicians and the political and media institutions that protect them. His previous work also includes “This Film Is Not Yet Rated” (2006) and “Twist of Faith” (2005), which was also nominated for an Academy Award.

Adam Nayman — Adam Nayman is a film critic for the Grid and Cinema Scope in Toronto. He has contributed articles to the Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Village Voice, LA Weekly, Reverse Shot, EYE Weekly, and the Walrus. He is a programmer for the Toronto Jewish Film Society and has his M.A. in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto. He teaches documentary film courses at Ryerson University.

Jason Osder — Jason Osder's first documentary feature, “Let the Fire Burn,” was awarded funding by the Sundance Institute and will premiere in 2013. Osder is an assistant professor of media and public affairs at The George Washington University and president of Amigo Media, a postproduction and consulting company. He is the author of several titles on the Lynda.com online training library and co-author with Robbie Carman of Final Cut Workflows: The Independent Studio Handbook.  

Nicolas Rapold — Nicolas Rapold is senior editor at Film Comment magazine and a contributor to The New York Times. His writing on documentary and other cinema has also appeared in Sight & Sound, the Village Voice, and Artforum. He co-programs the Overdue series at the 92YTribeca and programmed a 10th-anniversary screening of “Love & Diane” at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Tom Roston — Tom Roston writes about movies, pop culture, and life in his hometown, New York City. He started out at The Nation magazine, worked at Vanity Fair for three years, and then spent ten years, mostly as a senior editor, at Premiere magazine. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York, Food Republic, Spin, Elle, The Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, Manhattan, and The Hollywood Reporter, among other publications. In addition to freelance work, he writes a weekly blog about documentaries for PBS’ award-winning POV website.

Richard Rowley — Over the course of fifteen years, Richard Rowley, co-founder of Big Noise Films, has made multiple award-winning documentary features including Fourth World War and This Is What Democracy Looks Like. His shorts and news reports are also regularly featured on and commissioned by leading outlets including Al Jazeera, BBC, CBC, CNN International, Democracy Now!, and PBS. Rowley is a co-founder of the Independent Media Center.

Jeremy Scahill — Jeremy Scahill is National Security Correspondent for The Nation magazine and author of the international bestseller Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Nation Books, 2007). Scahill will release his second book, Dirty Wars, simultaneously with the film. He has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Nigeria, Yemen, the former Yugoslavia and elsewhere across the globe. Scahill’s work has sparked several Congressional investigations and won some of journalism’s highest honors, including the prestigious George Polk Award, in 1998 for foreign reporting and in 2008 for his book Blackwater.

Martha Shane — Martha Shane is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker whose second feature documentary, “After Tiller,” was an Official Selection at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. She co-directed, produced and co-edited the feature documentary “Bi the Way,” which had its premiere at the SXSW film festival in 2008 and debuted on MTV’s LOGO channel in summer 2009. She recently completed a short documentary, “Make the People Happy,” about New York’s only animal-costumed, xylophone-playing, subway-busking ragtime band and is working on the feature-length “Island of Destruction.”

Lana Wilson — Lana Wilson is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. “After Tiller,” about the experiences of the four doctors in the U.S. who perform third-trimester abortions, is her feature documentary debut. Wilson was previously the Film and Dance Curator for Performa, the New York biennial of new visual art performance. She has also organized several film retrospectives, including Not Funny: Stand-Up Comedy and Visual Art, The Polyexpressive Symphony: Futurism on Film, and Dance After Choreography. Her film programs have been presented by the Jerusalem International Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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