Director/Producer: Director/Producer: Cecilia Rubino wrote and directed the documentary play Gage County NE with community members in Beatrice, Nebraska which is featured in each episode of HBO’s Mind Over Murder true-crime series directed by filmmaker Nanfu Wang. The series has been nominated for multiple awards and Gage County NE is highlighted in numerous reviews including the Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Guardian and American Theater Magazine. She recently directed the short whimsical film Menstrual Rosary with a score by Stefania de Kenessey (text by Chiara Bottici & Vanessa Place, edited by Anomie Williams) which has won citations and awards at an array of film festivals worldwide. Rubino has also created theater pieces which have performed at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater, The New Victory @ 42nd Street, Jefferson Market Playhouse, and the New York and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. Her chapter, “If It Live In Your Memory” appears in The Whirlwind of Passion: New Critical Perspectives on William Shakespeare (Cambridge Scholars Press). Rubino also wrote and directed From The Fire, which won the UK/Music Theater awards for best music, best production and best new musical at the Edinburgh Fringe Theater Festival. She is an Associate Professor of Theater at Lang College/The New School, where she has recently directed The Tempest and As You Like it. http://www.ceciliarubino.com
Producer/Creative Producer: Peter Lucas teaches at the New School and NYU. As a filmmaker, he works as a director, creative producer, and producer on shorts and feature-length documentaries. In 2012, he won the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for his film projects. In 2015 he was a Documentary Fellow at the Sundance Institute for his creative producing on the film Hooligan Sparrow directed by Nanfu Wang. Hooligan Sparrow was the opening night film at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival and was short-listed for the 2017 Oscar for best feature documentary. He was also the creative consultant on Nanfu Wang’s One Child Nation, short-listed for the Oscar in 2019. He is currently working on a trilogy of a documentary films on Dante’s Divine Comedy: www.thedanteproject.net
Cinematographer/Editor/Sound Design: Will Lucas is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn. His work spans a broad range of styles and genres from street photography, experimental 16mm, aerial cinematography, music videos, sound design and documentary film.
Motion Graphics: Garry Waller is an award winning motion designer working in New York City whose art direction and graphics work on documentaries has helped secure numerous accolades. His work for the documentary Watchers of The Sky received the Special Jury Award for Animation at the 2014 Sundance premiere. The documentary Trashed, which Garry Art Directed, received a Palme d’Ore nomination at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012. Garry's film work can be seen at: http://www.momentist.com