Filmmakers
TODD WIDER and JEDD WIDER
Directors / Producers For over eighteen years, Jedd and Todd Wider have produced and/or directed numerous critically and commercially successful feature documentary films including Academy Award, Emmy Award, and Peabody Award winner for Best Documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side, directed by Alex Gibney, Academy Award nominated King’s Point, the multiple Primetime Emmy Awarding and Peabody Award winner Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, directed by Alex Gibney, the Emmy Award nominated Semper Fi: Always Faithful, directed by Rachel Libert and Tony Hardmon, the multiple Emmy Award nominated Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, directed by Alex Gibney, the Sundance favorite Kicking It, broadcast by ESPN, about the Homeless World Cup soccer tournament, the POV film A Dream in Doubt about the first post 9/11 revenge killing, Morgan Spurlock’s What Would Jesus Buy?, about our obsession with materialism and consumption, the critically acclaimed Beyond Conviction directed by Rachel Libert, about restorative justice and victim-offender mediation in the Pennsylvania prison system, broadcast on MSNBC, and Paul Cronin’s A Time to Stir about the Columbia University student uprisings in 1968. Jedd and Todd Wider have also directed and produced the critically acclaimed and Emmy Award winning God Knows Where I Am, which has won numerous awards, was widely distributed theatrically and was nationally broadcast by PBS and Netflix, as well as festival favorites, To The Edge of the Sky and The Winds of Downhill. In 2011, Todd Wider and Jedd Wider were each nominated by the Producers Guild of America for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures. The Wider’s commitment to social justice through film has been and remains informed by their respective professional endeavors. |
GERARDO PUGLIA
Cinematographer Gerardo Puglia is an international cinematographer and active member of the International Cinematographers Guild since 1990. Beginning his career at Age 16, he has gone on to work as Director of Photography for myriad film and television entities, including BBC, PBS, CBS, National Geographic, RAI (Italian Television), Imagine Entertainment, and Warner Brothers. Puglia is the recipient of two Emmys and a Peabody, along with two qualified Academy Award entries. He is an Eastman Kodak Company preferred cinematographer, consulting in the testing and development of Kodak film products. His work has been featured in numerous industry periodicals, such as iCOM Magazine and INCamera. |
MONA DAVIS
Editor Mona Davis, winner of Best Editor Emmy for The Farm, multiple award winning documentary on the notorious prison in Angola, Louisiana, has been editing documentaries since the early 1980s, when she doubled as Editor and Associate Producer of her first film, In Our Water, a study of the pollution problem in New Jersey's water supply. In Our Water, produced and directed by Meg Switzgable, won a Columbia DuPont Award and was nominated for both an Academy Award and an Emmy. The Farm, distributed theatrically and also seen on the A & E Network, was nominated for an Academy Award and was a Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner in addition to being voted Best Documentary of the Year by the New York Film Critics' Circle, the L. A. Film Critics' Circle and the National Society of Film Critics. Ms. Davis, a native New Yorker, is a graduate of the NYU film school and has edited many highly honored documentaries. |
COLIN NUSBAUM
Editor Colin Nusbaum is a documentary film editor based in Brooklyn, NY. Colin's work has screened at Sundance, South by Southwest, Tribeca, HotDocs, DOCNYC, Sheffield DocFest, Camden, Full Frame Doc Fest, Traverse City Film Festival and others. In 2014, Colin was awarded the prestigious Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship for emerging documentary editors. |
MARK ORTON
Composer Mark Orton is a composer working in the mediums of film scoring, concert music, and radio drama. He is both a multi-instrumentalist and a collector of antique and unusual instruments, performing on all manner (and era) of guitars, keyboards, and percussion. Mark is the co-founder of Tin Hat, an internationally renowned composer/improviser collective with seven critically acclaimed albums. He has written scores for dozens of films – documentary, narrative feature, and fine art – and has composed music for modern dance, theater, experimental radio, video/art installation, the circus, and the concert hall. |
BRIAN ARIOTTI
Associate Producer Brian Ariotti is an Emmy Award winning documentary editor and producer whose film credits include Delta Boys (2012), Madina’s Dream (2014), The Home Front (2015) Meru (winner of the 2015 Sundance Audience Award), God Knows Where I Am (2016), To the Edge of the Sky (2017) and The Winds of Downhill (2017). He began his career in 2007 as an intern for Nickelodeon, and has gone on to work for MTV, NBC, SCI-FI Channel, AMC, The Onion, Vogue, HGTV, The Food Network, Bravo, VH1, Logo, Overture Films, and National Geographic. |