Barbara Bird is a documentary filmmaker concerned with issues of social justice and political consciousness–raising. Her work (Handmaidens, 1995, and Album, 2002) has been recognized and juried in prominent festivals such as The Women in the Director's Chair International Film Festival and The American Film Institute National Video Festival in Los Angeles.
With an MFA in Radio⁄TV⁄Film from Northwestern University, she is an associate professor of film at Penn State University.
Contact: Barbara Bird. Web site: luckyduckfilm
Judy Maltz served as a senior correspondent in Jerusalem for Ha'aretz, Israel's most respected newspaper, and was one of the founding editors of the Ha'aretz English edition. She has reported for the Jerusalem Post and Reuters and has written extensively for the Financial Times of London and other British, American and Israeli newspapers.
She currently holds an appointment as a lecturer in Journalism in the College of Communications at Penn State University.
Contact: Judy Maltz
Richie Sherman is an independent filmmaker whose work emphasizes an expressionistic personal approach to the medium and is likely to include hand–processed or digitally manipulated material. He has been awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Va., and an Individual Artist Fellowship by the Ohio Arts Council in Columbus, Ohio. His most recent film, (demolition 7, 2005) received a Directors Choice Award at the Black Maria Film Festival and has screened worldwide at such juried festivals as the Festival Signes de Nuit in Paris, France, and the Kurz Film Festival in Hamburg, Germany.
His professional cinematography experience includes three narrative feature films, two feature documentaries and more than 40 shorts. His work has appeared in national and international festivals, been broadcast on the History Channel and PBS and distributed through Blockbuster, Film Threat and Netflix. His photographic work has been published in Wired magazine, Black Enterprise magazine, The Photo Review and featured on the cover of a Pulitzer–Prize nominated book of poetry.
With an MFA in film from Ohio University, he is an assistant professor of film at Penn State University.
Contact: Richie Sherman