Director/Producer
Beth Poague is an independent producer and editor. Her most recent projects include Live to Learn, (co-producer), a film about The Randolph School in upstate New York and Into the Hearing World (producer). She has numerous credits in film and television, including Two Square Miles, which was part of the 2006 Independent Lens season on PBS; associate editor for Three of Hearts: A Post-modern Family, which was released theatrically and aired on Bravo; and researcher for the PBS series The Jewish Americans for David Grubin Productions. Before working in documentary film, Beth was a program and development consultant for foundations, nonprofit organizations and individuals in the arts and was Executive Director of The Soap Factory, a nonprofit gallery for emerging artists in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has a degree in Nonprofit Management from the University of St. Thomas and a BA in Psychology from the University of Minnesota.
Producer
Sarie Horowitz is the Director/Producer of the award-winning short documentary The Special Music School of America and the producer of the PBS short Orchestra 2001. She is the producer of the feature documentary Three of Hearts: A Post-modern Family, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, was theatrically released by ThinkFilm and aired on Bravo and the Sundance Channel. Sarie was also a producer on Fallout and is currently producing the documentary short Welcome to Shelbyville.
Editor
Toby Shimin is a documentary editor with over 20 years of experience. She has edited many diverse projects including The Children’s Storefront, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject Documentary, Aids Warriors for the PBS series Wide Angle and Seabiscuit, for which she was nominated for an Emmy in documentary editing. Her most recent projects include A Sea Change, which premiered at the 2009 San Francisco Film Festival, and Everything’s Cool, which premiered at Sundance in 2008. Toby is a principal of Dovetail Films. She studied film at Hampshire College, where she earned a Bachelors of Arts in film.
Cinematographer
Julia Dengel has worked as a documentary cinematographer since 1993. She's recently shot on films such as I Bring What I Love, a feature documentary on Senegalese superstar Youssou NDour, Team Lioness, a feature documentary on American women soldiers who have fought in Iraq, and I'm From Rolling Stone, an MTV reality series. Dengel was producer, director, and cinematographer for Cowboys, Indians & Lawyers and directed A Sense of Place and The Wild San Juans.
Cinematographer
Andrew Young, along with his wife Susan Todd, is an Emmy Award-winning, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and the founder of Archipelago Films, a New York-based production company. Together, the team has produced, directed, photographed and recorded sound for numerous award-winning films on social and environmental topics, including the '94 Academy Award nominated Children of Fate. As a cinematographer, his credits include numerous shoots for National Geographic, the BBC, Nova, Nature and Green Umbrella. Young graduated from Harvard College in 1983 and has a Master's degree in Anthropology from Yale University.