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Sally Rubin is a documentary filmmaker and editor based in Los Angeles. Her career has included films for PBS’s Frontline, POV, Independent Lens, and American Experience series, as well as several other Sundance and Slamdance favorites, such as WGBH’s Africans in America (1996), and David Sutherland’s award-winning The Farmer’s Wife (1998). In addition, Rubin was the associate producer of Sutherland’s smash-hit, the 6-hour Frontline special Country Boys (2006). Her film The Last Mountain (2004) has aired on regional PBS stations, and Cut (2003) is used in universities across the country. She co-edited the fall 2006 release Iraq for Sale (2006), directed by Robert Greenwald, and three episodes of the ACLU’s Freedom Files, executive produced by Greenwald.

Jen Gilomen is director of public media strategies at the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC). Her 2005 documentary In My Shoes: Stories of Youth with LGBT Parents won the Audience Award for Best Short at the Frameline Film Festival and is now distributed to classrooms and communities nationwide. In 2007, she was the director of photography for Delta Rising, a feature length documentary about the blues starring Morgan Freeman and several well-known blues musicians. Her films have screened in the U.S., Mexico, Brazil, France, England, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Spain, and Italy.

Filmmaker David Sutherland has made a career of startlingly intimate documentary filmmaking. He is probably best known for Country Boys and The Farmer’s Wife for PBS. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, he created an impressive body of work, most of which aired nationally on PBS. George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn’t Be King, was produced for The American Experience, Jack Levine: Feast of Pure Reason, and Paul Cadmus: Enfant Terrible at 80, gave new life to two accomplished WPA painters, Feast of the Gods, was commissioned by the National Gallery of Art, and Halftime: Five Yale Men at Midlife, chronicles the experience of five members from the class of 1963. His 1995 film High Energy, a portrait of physicist Melissa Franklin, was the lead film for the PBS series Discovering Women, and Out of Sight, tells the sordid tale of a blind cowgirl addicted to independence and sex.

In addition to his own work, Sutherland has also executive produced two films for Marlo Poras, Mai’s America and Run, Granny, Run, and is currently doing the same for Lisa Olivieri’s upcoming documentary Helen Keller Had It Easy. Such a career does not come without recognition. In 1999 Harvard University Film Archives honored his work with a 10-day retrospective of David Sutherland films. In 2003 and 2004, he was invited to judge The Writer’s Guild of America, East awards for best documentary screenplay. And most recently, in 2007, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) honored him as the “featured director” in the Director’s Tribute at their annual international Documentary Fortnight series and, for the first time ever, screened 14 hours of one filmmaker’s work.

David Sutherland graduated from Tufts University and attended USC Film School.