Greta Schiller (Director) Greta Schiller is an internationally acclaimed documentary filmmaker and co-founder of Jezebel Productions. Since 1984 she has produced over a dozen films, unearthing lost histories of marginalized groups and writing them into the cultural narrative. Her work includes international favorites such as: Before Stonewall (1984 Emmy Award, 2019 National Film Registry), International Sweethearts of Rhythm (PBS, 1986 Best Doc, Philadelphia Film Festival), Paris Was a Woman (1995 Audience Award Winner, Berlinale), and The Man Who Drove with Mandela (PBS, 1998 Best Documentary at Berlinale). Her films have screened at the most prestigious international film festivals over the last 35 years, making her one of the most respected, longest-producing independent filmmakers of her generation. After earning her M.Ed in Science Education, Schiller’s investigations shifted to science, society, and the environment. Her latest film, The Land of Azaba (2020) tells a tale of epic proportions set in an ecological reserve on the Spanish-Portuguese border. An awardee of two Fulbright Fellowships: the first ever US/UK Fulbright Arts Fellowship in Film in 1989-90, and a Global Fulbright Award in 2016, Schiller is also the recipient of a Rachel Carson Fellowship, the Townsend Harris Medal: Distinguished Alumni Award, and in 2018 she was inducted into the CCNY Alumni Hall of Fame. Greta’s films have been funded by PBS, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Suffolk County Film Commission, Eurimage, VPRO, ARTE, Channel Four UK, South African Arts Council, London Production Fund, European Media Fund and The Arts Council of England.

Andrea Weiss (Writer/Producer) is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and founder, with Greta Schiller, of Jezebel Productions. Most recently, she is Producer/Director/Editor of Bones of Contention, a feature documentary delving into the historical memory movement in Spain and the unknown story of LGBT repression under the Franco dictatorship. Bones of Contention premiered in the 2017 Berlin Film Festival, screened on the film festival circuit around the world, and had an art-house cinema release in Spain. It won several jury and audience awards, including in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Valladolid, Spain. Her many other film credits include the award-winning documentaries Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story, Seed of Sarah, Paris Was a Woman, Before Stonewall, A Bit of Scarlet and International Sweethearts of Rhythm, among others. A nonfiction author as well, her books include Paris Was a Woman (Harper Collins, 1995; reissued by Counterpoint Press, 2013) which won a Lambda Literary Award, Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film (Penguin, 1992) and The Shadow of The Magic Mountain: The Erika And Klaus Mann Story (University of Chicago Press, 2008) which won the Publishing Triangle Award for Best Nonfiction. Her books have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Korean, Swedish, Japanese, and Slovenian. Weiss has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, the U.S./Spain Fulbright Commission, and the D.A.A.D. Artist Program in Berlin. She holds a Ph.D. in U.S. History and is Professor of Film at the City College of New York, where she co-directs the MFA Program in Film.

Tracy Daniels (Writer/Producer) is an independent producer whose passion for storytelling has taken her around the globe from New York to New Delhi. She has specialized in branded content for clients including Paramount Pictures, Campbell Soup Company, and Lifetime Television. Her work as a Production Assistant on Great Performances' The Colored Museum, Warner Bros.’ New Jack City, and Alma’s Rainbow directed by Ayoka Chenzira inspired her to collaborate with filmmakers bringing untold stories from the margins to the screen. She served as Deputy Director for the Rainbow Push Coalition’s Wall Street Project initiative headed by Founder and President Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., supporting non-profit economic development-focused initiatives that challenged corporate America to create a more balanced playing field for under-served communities. Her desire to showcase women's voices in film and television informed her advocacy work with New York Women in Film and Television where she served on the Board of Directors and Special Events, Archive and Documentary committees. Tracy co-produced the award winning short After Words: The Opposite of Foreplay which premiered at the 2017 NY International Shorts Film Festival and won the 2017 Audience Choice award at the Flicks X Chicks festival in Dallas. She recently served as Production Manager for The Heart Stays, an original Native American feature and winner of the Made in New York Women's Fund Award. Tracy holds a Master of Science in Comparative Media Studies from MIT.