About The Filmmakers

Laura Gabbert: Director, Producer
While in graduate school at UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, Laura Gabbert produced and directed the hour-long documentary, THE HEALERS OF 400 PARNASSUS. HEALERS aired on PBS, was distributed worldwide by Films Transit and won a 1997 National Educational Media Silver Apple Award. Laura also associate produced the ITVS feature TARANTELLA, starring Mira Sorvino. She produced the Joyce Carol Oates adaptation feature film, GETTING TO KNOW YOU (1999 Sundance and Venice Film Festivals), which premiered at the Film Forum in 2000 and had a limited theatrical run. Most recently she directed and produced the critically acclaimed, feature length documentary SUNSET STORY, which premiered at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival (Special Jury Award) and won the Audience Award at the 2003 IFP/Los Angeles Film Festival. She is currently co-writing and producing a second Joyce Carol Oates adaptation, LOVE MY WAY, and producing the feature film CHINESE BABY, starring Megan Mullaly. Laura is also developing SUNSET STORY into a narrative project.

Caroline Libresco: Producer
Caroline Libresco is feature film programmer for the Sundance Film Festival, where she coordinates the World Cinema program. Prior to joining Sundance, she was a programming and communications specialist for the Independent Television Service (ITVS). She was also associate director of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, senior publicist for the San Francisco International Film Festival and development director at U.C. Berkeley and the Library Foundation of San Francisco. She co-wrote and produced the gritty independent feature FANCIíS PERSUASION (directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld). She also produced BARRIER DEVICE, an award-winning featurette starring Sandra Oh and the ITVS-funded feature documentary, SUNSET STORY, which won the Audience Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival and will air on PBSís Independent Lens in March 2005. She is currently developing a documentary on the life and times of Detroit activist, Grace Lee Boggs. Caroline holds a B.A. from Oberlin College, an M.A. in History of Religion from Harvard and an M.F.A. from UCLAís School of Theater, Film and Television. She has served on juries at Silverdocs and the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, and on the funding panel for IFPís Radziwill Documentary Fund.

Eden H. Wurmfeld: Producer
Eden began her feature producing career in 1994 on her brother Charles Herman-Wurmfeld's experimental feature Fanci's Persuasion. From there she served as production manager on Doug Liman's directorial debut SWINGERS, released nationwide by Miramax in 1996 and went on to collaborate with Liman on See Jane Run. She is best known for producing the indie hit Kissing Jessica Stein, distributed in 2002 by Fox Searchlight. After its successful release, she was named one of Variety's "10 Producers to Watch" and was also a finalist for the IFP's Indie Spirit Motorola Producers Award. She was awarded UCLA Film School's Alumni Association Award in 2003. She is producing the family drama Son of A G-Man, written and to be directed by Will Geiger (Ocean Tribe) and Adam Corrolla's film debut The Hammer. Lastly, she and brother Charles Herman-Wurmfeld are developing a half-hour comedy pilot with Brillstein Grey called Bringing Up Mom. Wurmfeld co-authored the IFP West Independent Filmmaker's Manual (Focal Press), a "cookbook" on how to make an independent film.

William Haugse, A.C.E.: Editor
William Haugse A.C.E. has been nominated for both an Oscar ("Hoop Dreams," Fine Line) and an Emmy ("The Last Days of Kennedy and King," Turner) and has received the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award among many other prizes. His credits also include scores of shorter films as director and editor, including his short feature "Breakfast in Bed" starring John Ritter, which garnered several festival awards. He worked with Orson Welles and John Cassavetes editing shorter films, including making trailers for their films "F For Fake" and "Opening Night." Other editing work includes the Universal feature "Cattle Annie and Little Britches" featuring Rod Steiger and Diane Lane and "Paul's Case" starring Eric Roberts. Recent work includes "Stevie" (Lions Gate) directed by Steve James and "American Coup d'Etat," about the 2000 Florida presidential election, for Robert Greenwald. He is currently editing a PBS program about feudal Japan.

Shana Hagan: Director of Photography
Shana Hagan has photographed over 30 documentary and narrative films, shot countless hours of documentary and reality-based television programs, and has worked with such distinguished filmmakers as Michael Apted and Jessica Yu. Shana's work includes BREATHING LESSONS which won Best Documentary Short at the 1997 Academy Awards, an IDA Award and an Emmy. Shana also shot the award-winning documentary HOMELAND, a film about four Lakota families living on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. HOMELAND received several critical mentions for its cinematography. Shana's recent work includes CLOSE TO HOME, a look at survivors of child sexual abuse, which was in Documentary Competition at Sundance in 2002, and SHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARS, a year in the lives of a Shakespeare acting company comprised of inmates at a Kentucky prison. Credits also include THE LIVING MUSEUM for HBO, GEORGIA O'KEEFFE for A&E and two National Geographic Specials. Shana also shot the feature film INDEMNITY and BETTER LATE, a short narrative that played at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. Her work has been seen at major film festivals worldwide and in television broadcasts around the globe.

Peter Golub: Composer
Recent film credits include the Emmy-nominated THE LARAMIE PROJECT (HBO); SPEAKEASY (Miramax/Project Greenlight); U.S. SEALS (Nu Image); and independent films such as NIGHT OF THE WOLF, PLAY DEAD and STRAIGHT RIGHT. Theatre credits include: HEDDA GABLER (Broadway); BETTY'S SUMMER VACATION (Playwright's Horizon); THE IDIOTS KARAMAZOV (American Repertory Theatre); and CAMINO REALE (Williamstown Theatre Festival). His musical, AMPHIGOREY, with words and designs by Edward Gorey was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. He is the director of the Sundance Film Music Program.