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Born and raised in New York, Jeff Daniels is a multi-award winning independent filmmaker specializing in feature-length documentaries. Now based permanently in Melbourne, Australia, Jeff is best known for his first film, the controversial 10 CONDITIONS OF LOVE (2009), which made international headlines after being banned by the Chinese government for highlighting the plight of its Muslim minority, the Uyghur. He has since made MOTHER WITH A GUN (2016) about the Jewish terrorist group, the Jewish Defense League, and FAIR GAME (2017) which sparked a national debate in Australia after exposing systemic racism within the Australian Football League.

Ellen Anthony was raised in Lawrence, Kansas. In 1983, she appeared as Jolene Dahlberg in the ABC made for television movie THE DAY AFTER. Ellen continued to live in Kansas until she graduated from high school. She moved to New York where she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College (BA-English), Columbia University (MFA-Dramaturgy), and earned a Ph.D from The Graduate Center, CUNY in Renaissance Drama. Currently, she is a professor of Shakespeare and Theater History at Marymount Manhattan College, and serves on the English faculty  at The Collegiate School. Her son Jackson is currently a Theatre student at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Amy Taubin is a writer who has lived her entire life in New York City. She was a film and television critic at the Village Voice from 1987 to 2001, and a contributing editor for Film Comment and Artforum magazines for roughly 20 years. Her monograph Taxi Driver is in the BFI’s Film Classics series; she co-authored the monograph James Nares (Rizzoli); her writing is anthologized in many collections. Before she wrote very much, she was an actor, playing leading roles on and off Broadway, but her purchase on immortality is her appearance in Michael Snow’s WAVELENGTH.

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