The war is over, a trial begins
“A cinematic dream team”
— Pamela Cohn, Still In Motion
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER  Rebecca Richman Cohen is an award-winning filmmaker and a law school graduate with experience in international human rights and criminal defense. She interned as an investigator at the Bronx Defenders and continued to do investigative work at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, working on a legal defense team for Alex Tamba Brima in the AFRC-accused case. Five months after leaving the Brima defense team, she returned to Sierra Leone to begin production on WAR DON DON, which profiles the trial of a leader of a separate warring faction. Between trips to Sierra Leone, she has been adjunct faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where she taught an undergraduate seminar entitled "Human Rights, Mass Atrocity, and Documentary Film" and at American University’s Human Rights Institute where she taught "Criminal Justice Stories in Film." Rebecca graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and with a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. For her work on WAR DON DON she was awarded the the Cinereach Award for excellence in vital, artful storytelling. WAR DON DON also won the Special Jury Prize at the SXSW Film Festival.

PRODUCER / EDITOR  Francisco Bello is an OSCAR® and EMMY Nominee. He studied at the Cooper Union School of Art, and has worked in the post-production of films by Kevin Smith, Michael Moore, and George Butler among others. His recent editorial work includes SUMMER SUN WINTER MOON (ITVS), NEITHER MEMORY NOR MAGIC (MoMA Documentary Fortnight), BETTY LA FLACA (HBO), and JULIETA Y RAMON (Showtime). He launched Ropa Vieja Films in 2007 with SALIM BABA (HBO, Canal+, EBS), which he shot and produced in Kolkata, India. SALIM BABA has screened in over 75 festivals worldwide including Sundance, Telluride, IDFA, Woodstock and Tribeca, and in 2008 was Nominated for an ACADEMY AWARD® for Best Short Documentary, followed by a News & Documentary Emmy Nomination in 2009. Most recently, Francisco was awarded the first Karen Schmeer Award for Excellence in Documentary Editing at IFFBoston for his work on WAR DON DON. Francisco also recently completed his directorial debut commissioned by HBO Documentary Films, "The Spirit of Salsa" which premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival. He has been awarded fellowships from the PBS/WGBH Producers Academy, the NALIP Producers Academy, Tribeca All Access, and a grant from the Urban Arts Initiative.

LINE PRODUCER  Abu-Bakarr Jalloh is a stringer for Associated Press Television News and a documentary filmmaker and producer based in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He has worked with ABC-TV, a private television company in Freetown, as Director of News and Current Affairs and has contributed to the publication of Salone Times Newspaper in Freetown. A number of his recent projects have appeared on Current Television and excerpts of his work were screened on “Unreported World” a British Foreign Affairs program on Channel 4 TV.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER  Jim Butterworth is the Founder and President of Naked Edge Films, a Producer and Director of SEOUL TRAIN, as well as a technology entrepreneur. Jim’s first film, SEOUL TRAIN, has been in competition at more than 90 international film festivals (winning more than a dozen awards), was broadcast in 20 countries (including PBS in the U.S.), and has inspired countless grassroots and policy-level actions worldwide. In 2007, SEOUL TRAIN was bestowed the Alfred I. duPont – Columbia University Award, and was also runner-up for the National Journalism Award. Jim also founded and has led several successful companies, among them an early Internet company and a venture capital firm. He is also one of the pioneers in the development of streaming audio and video over the Internet, and holds 10 issued and numerous pending patents in this field. Jim holds a Bachelor of Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College. He is an inductee into the Georgia Tech Academy of Outstanding Engineering Alumni and also the recipient of the Dartmouth College Social Justice Award for significant contribution to social justice.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER David Menschel is a criminal defense lawyer and a director of the Vital Projects Fund, a charitable foundation with an interest in human rights and criminal justice reform. Through the Vital Projects Fund, Menschel has helped to fund several documentary films that advance progressive messages, including: No Impact Man (2009) about a New York City family's year-long experiment in carbon neutral living; and the Oath (2010) Laura Poitras’ intimate psychological portrait of a cab-driving Yemeni jihadist and his Guantanamo-imprisoned brother-in-law. Formerly, Menschel was an attorney and the Arthur Liman Fellow at the Innocence Project in New York City and the legal director of the Innocence Project of Florida in Tallahassee. He is the author of Abolition Without Deliverance: The Law of Connecticut Slavery,1784-1848, published in the Yale Law Journal. Before attending law school, Menschel taught American history to high school students. He received a B.A. from Princeton University ('93) and a J.D. from Yale Law School ('02).

CO-PRODUCER Daniel J. Chalfen is a Founder of and producer at Naked Edge Films, established in 2009 to support filmmakers through capital investment and co-production. Previously, Chalfen worked as an independent producer and consultant. His producing credits include the feature-length documentaries MEETING RESISTANCE, ENCOUNTER POINT, 39 POUNDS OF LOVE, and PULLED FROM THE RUBBLE, and the verite television series HAPPY FRANCE and ORDINARY PEOPLE. Chalfen’s films have been shown in festivals across the globe, have been theatrically released and broadcast worldwide (including on Al Arabiyya, Arte, Canal Plus, CBC, HBO, and ZDF), have featured on some of the world’s leading networks including ABC, Al Jazeera, CNN and PBS, and have received a multitude of awards and accolades. His films also have screened for United Nations, military and government audiences as well as for Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and for NGOs and on university campuses on six continents. Chalfen is a founder of Cine-Peace Film Festival (LA), an Advisory Committee member of the Other Israel Film Festival (NY), and a full voting member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY  Nadia Hallgren is a Cinematographer from the Bronx, New York. Her credits include the ACADEMY AWARD® Nominated and 2008 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner TROUBLE THE WATER. She has worked with Directors from Michael Moore to Morgan Spurlock. Nadia has traveled over five continents making films, and has filmed with noted figures from Dan Rather to Desmond Tutu, as well as celebrities including Britney Spears and Cameron Diaz. Nadia Hallgren is a 2009 recipient of the prestigious Cinereach fellowship.

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY  William Charles Moss is a cinematographer and photographer whose work has appeared on HBO, Discovery, PBS, BBC, VH1, MTV, Outdoor Life Network, and others. Most recently, his work as the primary DP helped create the look of the popular HISTORY DETECTIVE series on PBS. Moss has served as DP on the award-winning feature film THE NEW GUY, as well as the short documentary THE OLD MAN AND HEMINGWAY which was designated by MoMA an outstanding short film in 2005. He has also served as the DP on the feature-length documentary, NEITHER MEMORY NOR MAGIC, which chronicles the life of Hungarian poet, Miklos Radnoti and ITVS funded SUMMER SUN, WINTER MOON. Moss also shot and co-produced BETTY LA FLACA, which was the recipient of the 2006 HBO/New York International Latino Film Festival (NYILFF) Short Film Award and has since aired extensively on HBO.