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  Link   Amir Gera
amir-gera B.A in Humanities, Tel Aviv University, Israel - 1993. Graduate of Koteret school of journalism. Freelance director and producer of various documentaries and TV reports for Channels 2, 1 and 8 in Israel. His documentary "Brother Daniel - The Last Jew" won an honorable mention in Haifa International Film Festival in 2001. His documentary "More than a Dream" won an honorable mention in 1999 in the same festival. His documentary "The Submarine Children" participated in Jerusalem International Film Festival in 1998.
Other films: Wrinkle in the Soul,Holocaust Now and Then, Brother Daniel - The Last Jew, Fly Palestine, The War is Over, Settle - or Buy a Root, Doll on a Wire, Tandem, The Last Theatre Show, Dance in the Tempest, Ethiopia-Israel-Jamaica

Contact: Amir Gera, geragra@post.tau.ac.il
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  Link   Bill Woolery - Divertimento Productions
bill-woolery-divertimento-productions For two decades Bill edited dozens of trailers for major studio features working for top-rank trailer companies in Hollywood and for the trailer department at Paramount Pictures.

In 2004 Bill stepped away from commercial entertainment to open his own editing service. He soon became the go-to trailer expert for documentary and independent film producers. He is often asked to speak and critique trailers in seminars hosted by Carole Dean and other high-profile members in the documentary community. He holds “trailer clinics” for filmmakers and has written articles on the subject for trade publications.


Contact: Bill Woolery, bill@divertimento-prods.com
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  Link   Cynthia Wade
Cynthia Wade NYC-based documentary filmmaker. Her short documentary Freeheld won the 2008 Academy Award in the Short Documentary category as well as the 2008 Special Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, also film awards in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle and Denver. Wade directed and shot the award-winning HBO documentary Shelter Dogs, which was broadcast in seven countries, as well as the 1999 Cinemax Reel Life documentary Grist for the Mill. She was co-producer and the principal verite cinematographer for the 1998 PBS documentary Taken In: The Lives of America's Foster Children, which was awarded a Columbia-DuPont Award for Excellence in Journalism. She has been cameraperson for PBS, HBO/Cinemax, Bravo, AMC, MTV, A&E, Discovery, TNT, Oxygen, LOGO and The History Channel. Wade runs a documentary production company in New York City, where she lives with her husband and two children.

Contact: Cynthia Wade, cwade@cynthiawade.com
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  Link   Darin Basile
Darin Basile Educated as a mechanical engineer, self-employed as a video engineer/director, and self-taught photographer and documentary film maker. A mix of technical and creative. Fussy about details but not at the expense of the big picture.

Contact: Darin Basile, darinb@daflye.net
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  Link   Documentary Doctor
documentary-doctor Fernannda Rossi is a "Documentary Doctor" - story consultant and has consulted on more than 150 documentary films. From one-on-one to workshops and lectures, the covered topics are (among others): "Doctoring Your Doc" - How to structure your documentary, "Trailer Mechanics" - How to make your fundraising demo

Contact: Fernanda Rossi, info@documentarydoctor
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  Link   Ginger Gentile
ginger-gentile After graduating from Columbia University, long island girl Ginger moved to Buenos Aires in the midst of the financial crisis of 2001 and started working as a filmmaker. Extensive editing work and documentary filmmaking followed, including "Beef is Bueno" for Current TV, "Stenciling Buenos Aires" for IFC. She is now about to start her first feature documentary, Goals for Girls, about a group of slum girls who dare to play a sport off limits to them in Argentina: Soccer (football). She is the co-founder of San Telmo Productions, which specializes in creating original content and providing production services for a global audience. She also blogs at http://filminginargentina.wordpress.com the most widely read blog about the film and tv industry in Argentina (in English).

Contact: Ginger Gentile, info@santelmoproductions.com
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  Link   Irit Sharvit
irit-sharvit Film Director and director of photography. Born in israel in 1972 and a graduate of Tel-Aviv University Film School (BFA) in 1999. Worked as DP and documentary researcher on many TV shows and films for Channel 2,Channel 10 and niche channels in the cables and satellite TV in Israel. Also worked as DP in a Sama Station, a TV culture program in Japan.
Movies presented in DocMovies:
- Tokyo Dream: http://www.docmovies.com/movies%20database/search%20DMDB.html?view=movie&id=26-tokyo-dream
- Yael San: http://www.docmovies.com/movies%20database/search%20DMDB.html?view=movie&id=27-yael-san

Contact: Irit Sharvit, iritsun@gmail.com
Website Hits: 664
  Link   Kevin Tostado
kevin-tostado Kevin Tostado – Producer and Director
Kevin is the founder of Tostie Productions, a high definition film and video production company based in San Diego, California. He was a member of the inaugural class at Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Massachusetts. While in his senior year of college, he co-wrote and directed a full-length independent feature, Yellow Lights. This movie took home awards for “Best Feature” and “Best Cinematography” from Indie Fest USA 2007 as well as Telly and DV Awards.

Recently, Kevin has worked as a camera operator, director of photography, and assistant director on music videos, promos for NBC's Heroes, police training videos, webisodes for AT&T featuring paralympic athlete April Holmes, Disney Channel commercials, independent short films, and telenovelas for My Network TV.

Kevin is currently producing and directing "Under the Boardwalk" - a MONOPOLY Documentary coming to theaters in 2010. Find out more at http://www.MonopolyDocumenta

Contact: Kevin Tostado, kevin@tostieproductions.com
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  Link   Maryanne Galvin
Maryanne Galvin Maryanne Galvin is a documentary filmmaker as well as a practicing forensic psychologist in Boston, Massachusetts. Over the past several years, she chronicled the heated debate amongst her colleagues about their work as consultants to interrogations in U.S. national security detention centers. Interrogate This: Psychologists Take on Terror, premiered in September 2008 at The Thin Line Film Festival in Texas.

Her films have won awards at numerous independent film festivals and have been broadcast and distributed widely. Galvin has also written, directed, and produced three educational training videos for mental health and law enforcement professionals. She holds a doctorate in psychology from UMass Amherst and is a licensed and Board Certified (ABPP/Counseling) psychologist. She also earned the MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College, Boston.

Contact: Maryanne Galvin, info@mgproductions.biz
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  Link   Roi Ben Ami
roi-ben-ami Film Director, editor and scriptwriter. Born in Israel in 1972 and a graduate of Hadassah college Film School in 1998. Worked as director and editor on many TV shows and films for Channel 2,Channel 10 and niche channels in the cables and satellite TV in Israel.
Selected titles:
"It's Probably me" (Director) http://www.veoh.com/channels/docmovies

"Wall in their hearts" (Editor)
http://yes.walla.co.il/?w=2/7801/1199242

"I started so I'll finish" (Editor & scriptwriter)
http://www.haifaff.co.il/Movie%20Info.php?id=IStartedsoIWillFinish

"You name it" (2nd editor)
http://ticketnet.co.il/ticketNet/jsp/Cinema/movie_details.jsp;
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Contact: Roi Ben Ami, roiclive@hotmail.com
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  Link   Tom Cappello
tom-cappello Tom Cappello served as supervising producer on The History Channel series Deep Sea Detectives.
He also wrote and directed multiple episodes. He produced National Geographic Explorer: Super Sub, about the submarines of navies around the world. Subsequently, Cappello wrote and field produced an episode entitled "Home Base," about the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, for the American Public Television series Great Museums.
Cappello began his career at Turner Entertainment, producing commercial and interactive
television for TNT, TBS, The Cartoon Network, and Turner Sports.
In 2008 he completed the documentary film A Powerfil Noise which had its world Premiere in Trbeca Film Festival.
Watch the film's trailer in DocTrailers.com - http://www.doctrailers.com/media/118/A_Powerful_Noise/
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  Link   Tomislav Žaja
Born in 1967 in Zagreb, Croatia. Got his Masters degree in documentary film directing from the film academy FAMU in Prague (Czech Republic).

Wrote and directed two TV dramas and around thirty documentary films (internationally). Has worked as producer on the majority of his documentary films, as well as on one short and two feature films ("Headnoise" by Andrej Košak, "Bare Ground" by Ljubiša Samardžić - Berlinale, Panorama 2003 + Montreal 2003). Has won festival awards with several of his films. Started up his own production company in 1995 under the name Gral Film. The company has produced shorts, features, documentaries, TV doc series, TV dramas, most of it in association with co-production partners from the Czech Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Italy, Holland and the United States. At the moment (2005), in Slovenia preparing his first feature as director (and co-producer). It's based on script "Gravity" by Slovenian writer Blaž Kutin (presented by Script House at European Pitch Point during Berlinale 2002 / presented by CineLink at Sarajevo 2004 / presented by East Meets West Forum at Cottbus 2004).
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