KEY PERSONNEL

Rory O'Connor - Director/Producer/Writer

Author, blogger, journalist and filmmaker Rory O'Connor is co-founder and president of the international media firm Globalvision, Inc, and Board Chair of The Global Center, an affiliated non-profit foundation. O'Connor has directed, written and/or produced hundreds of television programs and films, and served as executive in charge of the award-winning broadcast newsmagazines "South Africa Now" and "Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television". His articles have appeared in many leading periodicals, and he is the author of the recently published Shock Jocks: Hate Speech & Talk Radio, as well as co-author of the "Nukespeak: The Selling of Nuclear Technology in America". His broadcast, film and print work has been honored with a George Polk Award, a Writer's Guild Award, and a George Orwell Award, among others. Most recently, he was a Fellow at The Shorenstein Center at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Gerald Barad - Producer/Writer

Producer - "Loverboy" - 2006 Directed by Kevin Bacon, Starring Kyra Sedgwick, Matt Dillon, Oliver Platt, Kevin Bacon, Sandra Bullock.

Co-Executive Producer - "Prey for Rock & Roll" - 2003 Starring Gina Gershon, Drea de Matteo.

Principle, Second Generations Films LLC - an independent film production and funding company.

Linda Hattendorf – Editor

Linda Hattendorf has been working in the New York documentary community for more than a decade. Her editing work has aired on PBS, A&E, and The Sundance Channel as well as in theatrical venues and many festivals. She edited the award-winning documentary 7th Street, directed by Josh Pais; Julia Pimsleur's Brother Born Again; Christina Lundberg's On the Road Home: A Spiritual Journey Guided by Remarkable Women, Nancy Recant's Jin Shin Jyutsu, and Danny Schechter's In Debt We Trust. She was Associate Editor on Frontline's The Choice '96, and on Barbara Kopple's Bearing Witness; Contributing Editor on POV's American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawaii; a cameraperson on William Greaves' Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take 2 1/2, and a researcher on the Ken Burns series The West. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and holds degrees in Literature, Art History, and Media Studies.

Eric Forman - Supervising Producer

Eric is a documentary producer/shooter currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Forman began his career in documentaries while a sophomore at Boston University when he spent a summer internship at Public Policy Productions working on Academy Award nominated film SOUND AND FURY. He graduated cum laude from BU in 2001 with a degree in Philosophy and Religion. After working for various independent filmmakers in Boston, Forman moved to New York in 2005. His first job in New York was to both associate produce and assistant edit Ambrica Productions' award-winning film YOUNG & RESTLESS IN CHINA which aired on PBS FRONTLINE. After that he was the coordinating producer on Globalvision's BARACK OBAMA: PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT. In addition to a variety of doc-related freelance work, during his spare time he started Forman Films in 2006 to produce his own films of social importance. He is currently directing his first feature, ACTUAL INNOCENCE, about a man on Alabama's death row.

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