Esther Podemski is a visual artist who produced and directed the acclaimed documentary House of the World about the Holocaust’s aftermath in Poland. This film premiered at Lincoln Center in New York. Since then, it has been screened in Europe, traveled throughout the United States with the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, and screened at the Los Angeles International Jewish Film Festival. The Discovery Channel and the Jewish Broadcast Network purchased the film. As a painter, Esther Podemski has exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in public and private collections. She is a recipient of a painting fellowship from the New York State Council on the Arts and twice participated in the Yaddo residency program.
Chuck Schultz is a filmmaker whose documentary “The Rural Studio” (2002) celebrates the work of Samuel Mockbee, the late American architect, MacArthur Foundation Award recipient and founder of Auburn University’s Rural Studio. “The Rural Studio“ was broadcast throughout the United States and was presented at the 2002 Whitney Biennial in New York and Shenzhen 2006 Architecture/Urbanism Biennial in China. Schultz was the associate producer on the documentary “House of the World” (1999). He was the co-producer of “A Day At A Time”, a candid portrait of parents raising twin girls with cerebral palsy, winner 1992 Heartland Film Festival’s Crystal Heart Award.
Judah Lev Dickstein is a filmmaker and an editor. He was the first assistant editor on "Shut up & Sing", A Cabin Creek Films Production, directed by Barbara Kopple. He has edited "The Calling"; DVD extras, a David Ranghelli production. He is the co-editor, "Battle for the Barnes", a 9.14 pictures production directed by Don Argott.