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Molly Bernstein is the director and producer of DECEPTIVE PRACTICE: THE MYSTERIES AND MENTORS OF RICKY JAY, a documentary that premiered at the New York Film Festival, followed by a theatrical opening at Film Forum and subsequent wide release. The film was named one of Entertainment Weekly’s top 10 films of 2013 and aired on the PBS series American Masters. She also directed AN ART THAT NATURE MAKES: THE WORK OF ROSAMOND PURCELL, which also opened at Film Forum before playing in over 20 theaters nationwide and released on DVD by Kino Lorber. Bernstein has had an extensive career as an editor with credits including the 2009 Emmy and Peabody Award-winning JEROME ROBBINS: SOMETHING TO DANCE ABOUT, also featured on the American Masters series. She has recently produced and directed many short films with Particle Productions on various subjects such as contemporary artists and art collectors around the world for the James Cohan Gallery, VIP Art Fair and Christie’s. Most recently, she produced and directed, a feature documentary about the creation of the live rock show in the late ‘60s and ‘70s. This film premiered at DOC NYC.

Philip Dolin has produced and directed over 100 films about art, architecture, dance, the environment, and many other subjects. His clients have included universities, non-profit organizations, art galleries, museums, and a variety of businesses. He started out producing hip-hop videos in the early ‘90s for rap artists Salt-N Pepa, MC Lyte, Hurby “Luv Bug” Azor and many others. He was the executive producer and cinematographer of two previous AN ART THAT NATURE MAKES: THE WORK OF ROSAMOND PURCELL and producer of DECEPTIVE PRACTICE: THE MYSTERIES AND MENTORS OF RICKY JAY, both or which premiered at Film Forum. He recently directed and produced the feature documentary THE SHOW’S THE THING: THE LEGENDARY PROMOTERS OF ROCK, which The Hollywood Reporter called “essential viewing for anyone interested in music industry history.”

Olivia Rutigliano is an Editor at Lit Hub and its vertical CrimeReads. She was a Contributing Editor at the film magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room, and has written essays for Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham's Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Baffler, Politics/Letters, The Toast, Truly Adventurous, and elsewhere. She, a specialist in the history of mass entertainment from the late 19th through the 20th centuries, has a PhD from the departments of English/Comparative Literature and Theatre at Columbia University, where she was the Marion E. Ponsford fellow.

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