Kristin Lesko (Los Angeles, CA) began her film career working with documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson on a variety of award-winning projects for public television including The Murder of Emmett Till, A Place of Our Own and Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice. In 2005, she worked with Nelson as associate producer on Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, which went on to be short-listed for a 2006 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Her contributions as associate producer and archival researcher also helped the film win the 2006 IDA/ABC News VideoSource Award for best use of news footage. Most recently, Lesko was a co-producer on Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience for The Documentary Group.
Ben Selkow (New York, NY) is the director/producer/director of photography/writer of A Summer in the Cage, which aired on Sundance Channel in October, following an international film festival tour and an educational/institutional outreach campaign. He also is the co-producer of The North Carolina Project, a feature-length documentary about fugitive bomber Eric Robert Rudolph for director Jim Chambers' Field Hands Productions. The film is intended for theatrical, cable and DVD release in 2008. Along with running Field Hands Productions, Selkow is overseeing all phases of pre-production, production and post-production for The North Carolina Project. Before producing at Field Hands, he associate-produced for Fox SportsNet's Beyond the Glory (2000-2001). Selkow also was a field producer/camera operator for a series of street basketball DVDs entitled Straight from the Streets (2000). Prior to that, he was a production assistant and assistant director on feature films such as Meet the Parents (2000) and What Lies Beneath (2000) and television shows such as Sex in the City and The Sopranos. Selkow began his film career interning at Tribeca Productions and Warner Brothers story departments. He first became interested in film after seeing his mother, a psychologist, being featured in the National Film Board of Canada documentary L'Interdit (1976), about an alternative commune for treating schizophrenics in Canada. Selkow was born in Montréal, Canada. He holds Honors BAs in Film Studies and African-American Studies from Wesleyan University, where he received the W.E.B. DuBois Academic Award for Overall Excellence and a certificate from the School for International Training in Tanzania, East Africa. bselkow@gmail.com; www.cagethemovie.com.
Roger J. Zou (Shanghai, China). Zou's many years of film production experience include working as a producer with major film studios in China such as Beijing Films Studio and Shanghai Films Studio, among others. In addition to his film production career, he has also been involved in television commercial production as a director, writer and producer. Zou produced the mini-series My Teacher, of which there are over 100 episodes; the television dramas Madam Channeult and The Poetry of Jiangshang Qin; and an eight-part documentary series, A Walk in Tibet. Recently, he completed post-production on the feature documentary Kingdom of Women in the United States. This film documented the Mosuo people, who live near Tibet. After nearly 3,000 years of isolation, the Mosuo society remains the most complete and intact matrilineal system in the world.