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| Andrew Levine, Director and Producer Geralyn White Dreyfous, Producer and Executive Producer Winona Ryder, Producer and Narrator Tim Robbins, Narrator Tamera Martin, Editor and Assistant Producer Cari Beauchamp, Writer Basil Katsaounis, Director of Photography David Robbins, Musical Director Congressman Jim McDermott, Advisor Matthew S. Friedman, Advisor Laura J. Lederer, Advisor Andrew Levine, Director and Producer After graduating from the University of Utah, Andrew traveled the world and spent 3 years working on the film , The Day my God Died. Andrew has worked in Hollywood, Sundance Film Festivals and directed and produced The Price of Youth, a ten-minute expose chronicling the slave trade between Nepal and India. The short was produced with Witness, a human rights media organization founded my musician/activist Peter Gabriel. The film was released on the internet and Andrew presented clips from the film on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Since its inception, The Day My God Died was nominated for an Emmy, won multiple film festival awards, was purchased by PBS, HBO Latin America, played in venues all over the world with UNICEF and continues to be watched in homes and universities across the globe. The documentary continues to tug at hearts and drive awareness on this horrific human rights violation. Andrew is extremely grateful for it's continual success and appreciates all the feedback received over the years. His hope is that people continue to watch the film, learn and spread the word. After the film's completion, Andrew continued to pursue a career in land development taking a break from the film world. During that 5-year break, he continued to travel and speak as an expert on trafficking issues. For the last 2 years, he sat on the board of the Daywalka Foundation and continues to work with the Friends of Maiti Nepal. Both non-profits are dedicated to working on fighting against the child sex slave trade. Geralyn White Dreyfous began her career at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University as a special assistant to Dean Graham Allison. In this capacity she helped raise of $22m for three new public policy initiatives, THE TAUBMAN CENTER FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT, THE WEINER CENTER FOR SOCIAL POLICY and Marvin Kalb‚s MEET THE CANDIDATES, Press and Politics Initiative. While working at the Kennedy School she began exploring the unique relationship between philanthropy, non-governmental organizations and social innovation. At the invitation of Alfred Taubman, philanthropist and real estate entrepreneur and Frank Stanton, founder of CBS, Geralyn began consulting privately on special philanthropic project initiatives in New York City in 1988. For Stanton she served as a special liaison to THE CENTER FOR COMMUNICATIONS, a non-profit he and Thorton Bradshaw started to examine the policy and ethical implications generated by rapid technology changes in the communication industry. For Taubman, she helped incubate the first public private school reform initiative in his home state of Michigan. In 1989, she and Peter Karoff founded THE PHILANTHROPIC INITIATIVE, a consulting business for people of wealth and corporations interested in strategic advice and staffing for their philanthropy. The Rockefeller Foundation financed the company. Today TPI represents over 40 family foundations and 20 Last year it helped deploy over $50m of new philanthropy. In 1992 Geralyn was awarded a Lyndhurst Prize for her work in philanthropy. The prize, modeled after the MacArthur award, was a three-year no strings attached‰ grant of $40,000. Geralyn used that grant to be trained as an Outward Bound instructor, and teach with Robert Coles at Harvard University. In 1994 she left TPI, taking two private foundation clients and began devoting half of her time to working with Dr. Robert Coles on establishing a Center for Community Service and Documentary Studies. This work was the precursor to what is now the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, which birthed DOUBLETAKE Magazine and the DoubleTake Film Festival. In 1995 Geralyn was married and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah where she continued to consult with her private foundation clients and DoubleTake Magazine and Institute. In 1998 the Institute for Civil Society, a private foundation, hired Geralyn to help spin DoubleTake Magazine out of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. DoubleTake Magazine has won every coveted literary and photographic award, including the General Excellence Award. In 2001 she launched a DoubleTake Summer Institute for teachers, activists and emerging documentarians. The Institute was held at Hampshire College and led by Ken Burns and Robert Coles. In 2002 she and Nicole Guillemet founded THE SALT LAKE CITY FILM CENTER where she currently serves as its Executive and Artistic Director. As a film producer she has produced a documentary of the child sex salve trade narrated by Tim Robbins called THE DAY MY GOD DIED, which was broadcast on PBS and Executive Produced the Academy award winning BORN INTO BROTHELS FILMS. Other documentaries produced include PROJECT KASHMIR, KICK LIKE A GIRL, IN A DREAM and CONNECTED: A DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE. In 2007 she and Dan Cogan started a social impact film fund called IMPACT PARTNERS. IMPACT partners has financed 20 documentaries and looks for innovative ways to have these stories distributed. Geralyn lives in Salt Lake City with her husband Jim Dreyfous and two children McKarah and Jake. She graduated with honors from Harvard College.
With two Oscar nominations and a Golden Globe award, Winona Ryder is one of Hollywood's most respected actors. As ?Jo? in Gillian Armstrong's highly acclaimed version of the Louisa May Alcott classic, Little Women, Ryder received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. The previous year she was Oscar nominated, and won the Golden Globe and National Board of Review Awards for Best Supporting Actress, for her performance in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence. Ryder also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Richard Benjamin's Mermaids.In 1999, Ryder starred in and served as Executive Producer on the critically acclaimed Girl, Interrupted, directed by James Mangold and based on the best selling memoir of the same title. Tim Robbins made his acting debut in 1972 at the Theatre for the New City in New York City. In 1992, Robbins received critical acclaim for his portrayal of the amoral studio chief in Robert Altman’s THE PLAYER, a performance that earned him the Best Actor Award At the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Globe Award. His starring performance in BOB ROBERTS also earned him a Golden Globe nomination. Other notable acting performances include: THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION for which Robbins’ received an Screen Actors Guild Award nomination; Robert Altman’s SHORT CUTS giving Robbins his second Golden Globe Award; the Coen Brothers’ THE HUDSUCKER PROXY; and Ron Shelton’s BULL DURHAM. He is currently filming Clint Eastwood’s MYSTIC RIVER, co-starring with Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon.
Tamera has been a documentary producer and Avid editor for over 10 years, editing/co-producing feature-length documentaries for PBS, Turner and Discovery and over 50 short-form/commercial programs for Fortune 100 clients and studios. Tamera’s 2000 centerpiece documentary, Without Lying Down: The Francis Marion Story was nominated by the Writers Guild of America and the Director’s Guild of America. Cari Beauchamp, Writer Cari Beauchamp is the award-winning author of Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood published by Scribner and University of California Press. Without Lying Down has been named Outstanding Book of the Year by the National Theater Library Association, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, one of the 100 Best Books of the Year by the Los Angeles Times and one of the Top Ten Biographies of the Year by Amazon.com. Cari co-wrote and co-produced the film based on the book, and was nominated for a Writers Guild Award for the documentary which is narrated by Uma Thurman and features Kathy Bates as the voice of Frances Marion. Cari also co-wrote the book Hollywood on the Riviera: The Inside Story of the Cannes Film Festival published by William Morrow. She is currently writing Joe Kennedy’s Hollywood for Knopf which will focus on the family patriarch’s running of three studios simultaneously in the late 1920s. Return to top Basil M. Katsaounis received a degree in Film Studies at the University of Utah. His director of photography credits include four feature films: This Ain’t Kansas, Breaking and Entering, She Lives By Night and An American Diner. He has shot innumerable short films, industrial and commercial projects, and his work has competed in many festivals, including the Milan International Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival. The Day My God Died is his first feature length documentary. He lives in New York City. Return to top David Robbins has been immersed in music all his life. The son of Gil Robbins, a member of the folk group "The Highwaymen,” David grew up in Greenwich Village in the midst of many artists and performers that lived and worked there in the 60's and 70's. David has worked as a guitarist, songwriter, concert and studio engineer, composer, and theatrical sound designer in Los Angeles and New York. He brings all of those experiences and an ample reservoir of musical styles which he evocatively weaves into his compositions. His film scores have included orchestral, jazz, rock and ethnic/world music. Among other notable projects, David scored the music for "Bob Roberts," "Dead Man Walking" and “The Cradle Will Rock.” Return to top Jim McDermott made his first run for public office in 1970 and was elected a state representative from the 43rd legislative district in Washington. In 1974, he ran for state Senate, and subsequently was re-elected three times. In 1980, he received the Democratic nomination for governor, defeating the incumbent in the primary. In 1987, after 15 years of legislative service, Rep. McDermott decided to leave politics and continue in public service at a Foreign Service medical office based in Zaire, providing psychiatric services to Foreign Service, AID, and Peace Corps personnel in sub-Saharan Africa. In 1988, he returned from Africa to run for the U.S. House of Representatives and is currently serving his fifth term. Return to top
Beginning in June 1991, Mr. Friedman worked as an international counter-trafficking activist, fund-raiser, program designer, evaluator and manager. He has designed and managed both country and regional counter-trafficking programs (South and Southeast Asia, Bangladesh and Nepal), helped to establish a counter-trafficking regional training center, and participated in resource mobilization and production of two award-winning films on the subject. In addition, he has participated and presented at many of the major counter trafficking conferences in both South and South-east Asia, facilitated and offered training support within numerous counter-trafficking workshops and training programs, and helped to develop a human trafficking paradigm that offers conceptual clarity to technical staff working in the sector. He has also published an array of articles, manuals, books and periodic papers on the subject. At present he manages a major regional counter trafficking project for the United Nations covering China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and Malaysia. This project is based in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Laura J. Lederer received her B.A. magna cum laude in comparative religions from the University of Michigan. After 10 years in philanthropy as director of community and social concerns at a private foundation, she continued her education at the University of San Francisco Law School and DePaul College of Law and received her juris doctorate in June 1994. She was the recipient of the University of San Francisco Alumni Women’s Association scholarship in 1991. In 1992 she was Mansfield Fellow of Law at DePaul College of Law. In 1997, she received the Gustavus Meyers Center for Study of Human Rights Annual Award for Outstanding Work on Human Rights for her work on harmful speech issues. In 2008 she received a Distinguished Service Award from the U.S. State Department. In September 2009, she received the University of Michigan College of Literature Science and Arts Humanitarian Service Award for her work on human trafficking. Lederer founded and directed The Protection Project at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1997. In 2000, she moved The Protection Project to Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She is adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law Center, where she has taught for six years, including the first full course on international trafficking in persons offered at a law school. For five years she served as Senior Advisor on Trafficking in Persons to Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs. She was Senior Director of Global Projects on Trafficking in Persons in the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. Department of State. For seven years, she held the Executive Directorship of the Senior Policy Operating Group on Trafficking in Persons, a high level interagency policy group that staffed the President’s cabinet-level Inter-agency Task Force on Trafficking in Persons. She is the editor of Take Back the Night, published in 1980 by William and Morrow (hardcover) and Bantam Books (paperback), and The Price We Pay: The Case Against Racist Speech, Hate Propaganda, and Pornography, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1995, and the author of numerous articles on trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of women and children. Currently she is Vice President for Policy and Planning for Global Centurion, a new NGO dedicated to fighting child sex trafficking. |
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