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YURIKO GAMO ROMER is an award-winning director who holds a Master’s degree from Stanford University, is a Student Academy Award winner, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Scholar, and American Association of Japanese University Women Scholar. Her previous film Mrs. Judo, about Keiko Fukuda (1913-2013), the first woman to attain the 10th degree black belt in judo, traveled to more than 25 film festivals and was awarded the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary at the 2013 International Festival of Sport Films in Moscow and broadcast on PBS nationally.
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MARC SMOLOWITZ is a multi-award winning independent filmmaker whose works have to touched 200+ film festivals and markets on 5 continents, yielding substantial worldwide sales to theatrical, television and VOD outlets, notable box office receipts, and numerous awards and nominations. His long list of credits includes films that have screened at top tier festivals such as Sundance, Berlinale, Venice, Chicago, Palm Springs, AFI DOCS, IDFA, DOC NYC, CPH: DOX, Tokyo, Melbourne, Viennale, Krakow, Jerusalem, among others.
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LOI AMEEERA ALMERON is an investigative producer and editor of award-winning documentaries in the United States and the Philippines. She has worked on at least 35 documentaries and features of diverse topics for national and international broadcast, including the update to the Emmy-nominated film Rape on the Night Shift; PBS Frontline’s Trafficked in America, a 2019 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting finalist; and Hale, which won the Student Academy Award for Documentary in 2017.
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KEN SCHNEIDER has edited over thirty feature-length documentaries about war and peace, human rights, art, American history and contemporary social issues and has been honored with Emmys, Peabodys, International Documentary Association awards, and an Oscar nomination for Regret To Inform.
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ANDREW BLACK’S work has been for theatrical and broadcast distribution and has shown in many festivals worldwide. His selected films include: Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 911 and Sicko, Sam Green’s The Weather Underground, Jake Kornbluth’s Inequality For All and Toby McLeod’s series, Standing on Sacred Ground.
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