DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS

Janet Goldwater and Barbara Attie are EMMY® nominated producers/directors who have collaborated on award-winning documentaries for national and international broadcast for more than three decades. Abortion Helpline, This is Lisa (2020) screened at Sundance, won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Doc at AFI Docs, and was short-listed for an Oscar in 2021. Their feature-length documentaries BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez (EMMY® nominated 2015), Mrs. Goundo’s Daughter (ITVS co-production 2009) and Maggie Growls (ITVS co-production 2003) were all broadcast nationally and internationally.

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER

Mike Attie is a former Sundance Documentary Film Fellow. His short, The Field Trip (with M. O’Hara and R. Ojeda Beck) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He co-produced and directed Abortion Helpline, This is Lisa (2020) with B. Attie and J. Goldwater. His feature documentary, In Country , had a world premiere at Full Frame and an international premiere at Hot Docs. Mike is also currently directing/producing a Ford Fdn-funded documentary: Untitled Pennhurst Documentary.

PRODUCER

Eliza Licht was consulting producer on Battleground (2022), co-producer of Disclosure (2022), and impact producer for Abortion Helpline, This is Lisa (2021). She worked in the social issue documentary field for more than twenty years as a television executive at PBS’ POV, a position she left in 2018 to found Red Owl Partners, which creates impact and engagement campaigns for documentary films.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Rachel Bloom is best known as the co-creator and star of the CW musical dramedy, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015-2019). For her performance as “Rebecca Bunch,” Rachel won the 2016 Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Series – Musical or Comedy, the 2016 Critics’ Choice Award for Best Actress in a TV Comedy, and the 2016 TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Philanthropist and coach Ruth Ann Harnisch serves as the president of the Harnisch Family Foundation, a nonprofit foundation she co-founded in 1998. In this position she has been instrumental in steering both foundation resources and major gifts from other philanthropists toward nonprofits dedicated to promoting women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, and diversity in the media.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Angela Tucker is an EMMY® and Webby Award-winning director, writer and producer. She directed the ITVS-funded program The Inquisitor , about the life of Barbara Jordan. Prior work includes All Styles : A Showtime original, A New Orleans Noel , All Skin-Folk Ain’t Kinfolk , and Black Folk Don’t .

EDITOR

Jamie Boyle is a two-time EMMY®-winning producer, writer and editor. Her work includes Breaking the News (editor), Anonymous Sister (director, writer, editor), and Jackson (producer, editor, cinematographer).

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Melissa Langer was nominated for a Primetime Emmy in Cinematography for Cheer. She was DP for Pray Away and Principles of Pleasure (Netflix), and producer/cinematographer for Attla (ITVS and Vision Maker Media).Description goes here

COMPOSER

Saul Simon MacWilliams is an EMMY® nominated composer whose previous documentary collaborations include HBO's Jim: The James Foley Story ; Amazon's Gleason ; Becoming Warren Buffett ; Amazon's A Suitable Girl ; Netflix's Chasing Coral ; and Anonymous Sister.