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Nancy Buirski is the director, producer and writer of award-winning films THE LOVING STORY; AFTERNOON OF A FAUN: TANAQUIL LE CLERCQ; BY SIDNEY LUMET; THE RAPE OF RECY TAYLOR; and A CRIME ON THE BAYOU. THE LOVING STORY, shortlisted for Oscar and winner of a Peabody Award was turned into the feature LOVING, co-produced by Buirski. Both DESPERATE SOULS and THE RAPE OF RECY TAYLOR premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where the latter was awarded the prestigious Human Rights Nights Award. Buirski has consulted on many documentaries, including Academy Award winner SUMMER OF SOUL. Prior to filmmaking, Buirski founded and ran the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. She is the former Foreign Picture Editor at The New York Times and wrote and photographed Earth Angels: Migrant Children in America. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Jennifer Salt began her career as an actress; for three decades she performed on stage, television and in movies. Her role as Annie in MIDNIGHT COWBOY was an early film breakthroughs. She is the daughter of screenwriter Waldo Salt, who survived the Hollywood blacklist and went on to win Academy Awards. In 1990, Salt changed her focus to screenwriting. She wrote on the series Sins of the City for USA Network and Nero Wolfe Mysteries for A&E. For FX, Salt wrote and produced eight seasons of Nip/Tuck and five seasons of American Horror Story. With Ryan Murphy, she co-wrote the screenplay of EAT PRAY LOVE, based on the book by Elizabeth Gilbert. Salt was an executive producer on season one of Ratched at Netflix.

Charles Kaiser is the author of 1968 In America, The Cost of Courage, and The Gay Metropolis, a New York Times notable book of the year and the winner of the Lambda Literary Award.  The latest updated edition of Metropolis covers eight decades of political, cultural and social history. He is a former reporter for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, a former press critic for Newsweek, and a current book critic for The Guardian (US.) He lives on the Upper West Side with his husband, the artist Joe Stouter.

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