FILMMAKERS' BIOGRAPHIES BEN SELKOW, Director/Producer/Cinematographer Ben Selkow recently was honored as one of 50 Non-Fiction Filmmakers at the Current TV/Fader Films Symposium “A Day of Dialogue and the Future of Non-Fiction Film” on November 6, 2007 featuring keynote speaker former Vice President Nobel Prize honoree, Academy Award winner and Current TV founder Al Gore, as well as luminary filmmakers Barbara Kopple, Al Maysles, Alex Gibney, and Marc Levin. Selkow is the director/producer/director of photography/writer of A Summer in the Cage, a feature-length documentary about bipolar disorder that premiered on Sundance Channel in October 2007 and is being distributed for home video by Indiepix. The film was nominated for a 2008 Prism Bipolar Disorder Depiction Award. Ben also is the Producer of Onward Christian Soldier, a feature-length documentary film about fugitive bomber and domestic terrorist Eric Robert Rudolph for director Jim Chambers’ Field Hands Productions based in New York City. The film is intended for theatrical, cable and DVD release in 2008. Along with running Field Hands Productions, Ben oversees all phases of pre-production, production (shooting with cinematographer Maryse Alberti) and post-production with editor Susanne Rostock for Onward Christian Soldier. In 2003, Ben was a participant in the annual Sundance Producer’s Conference at the Sundance Institute in Utah. Before producing at Field Hands, he associate produced for Fox Sports Net’s Beyond the Glory (2000-2001). Ben also was a field producer/camera operator for a series of street basketball DVD’s entitled Straight from the Streets (2000). He began his film experience as a production assistant and assistant director on feature films such as Meet the Parents (2000), What Lies Beneath (2000), Center Stage (2000) and Random Hearts (1999), television shows such as Sex in the City and The Sopranos. Ben began his film career interning at Tribeca Productions and Warner Brothers story departments. Ben 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. He is a screenwriter, an avid photographer, traveler, and basketball player. Ben is a member of the Independent Film Project (IFP) the International Documentary Association (IDA), as well as being fiscally sponsored by the IDA. Ben was born in Montréal, Canada and is a dual-citizen. He holds Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Film Studies and African-American Studies from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut where he received the W.E.B. DuBois Academic Award for Overall Excellence. He received a certificate from the School for International Training in Tanzania, East Africa. He resides in New York City. Currently, Selkow is developing another feature-length documentary on post-traumatic stress disorder working with Albert Maysles, a socially conscious reality-television series, a documentary about high school basketball, and two feature-length narrative scripts. www.34lukefilms.com JOHN MIMS, Editor/Co-Writer John Mims is the editor and co-writer for A Summer in the Cage. Prior to this film, he edited two other feature documentaries: The Voyagers, a profile of Brooklyn based artist Ward Shelley and his walking sculpture project; and Slammed From the Street, a showcase of urban league basketball highlights and profiles of its dominant players. He has also edited several other programs including: ThinkNOW, an experimental short examining the effects of commerce on the psyche and a segment for Beyond the Glory on Fox Sports. John is currently the senior editor at UNICEF Television, and has worked with the organization since 1998, producing and editing numerous PSA's, short features and news reports. He is developing an as yet unnamed television series for UNICEF. Before becoming an editor, John was a fine arts painter, holding a BA in Art from UC Berkeley. He resides in Brooklyn. HAJO CARL, Composer Hajo is a performer, producer and co-writer for the New York-based trip-hop band Vortex with lyricist and vocalist Juliet Hanlon. Hajo has always been inspired by music and technology's synergy and the limitless possibilities of creative expression that they proffer. He was classically trained in piano in Nuremberg, Germany and then attended the musical school Wolfram-Von-Eschenbach. Following his formal studies, Hajo moved to Berlin where he worked for Germany's biggest Apple computer retailer Gravis as a consultant on the technology side. Concurrently, while in Berlin, Hajo produced and engineered albums for such bands and labels as Nustyle for EMI, Madonna Hiphop Massacer for East-West Records and unsigned acts Worldcup and Rekord at DCM Tonstudios. In 1996, he came to New York City where he currently resides. PAOLA FRECCERO, Executive Producer Paola Freccero is the Founder and President of Fast Forward, a consulting firm dedicated to new business development and strategic planning for the entertainment industry. Prior to starting Fast Forward, Paola was Sundance Channel's Senior Vice President, Film Programming. In that role, she supervised the acquisition, programming and scheduling of Sundance Channel's film line-up which included independent Americana and international features, non-fiction series and documentaries, and shorts. During her tenure, Paola launched both Sundance Channel Home Entertainment and the Sundance Film Series, and previously held the title of Vice President International, spearheading Sundance Channel's business development activities overseas. Prior to joining Sundance Channel, Paola was Artistic Director of the Nortel Palm Springs International Film Festival and the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival. Before joining the festival, Paola spent five years working as a publicist in independent film and television. Paola lives in New York City. JOEDAN OKUN, Associate Producer Joedan Okun is the Associate Producer for A Summer in the Cage. Joedan has worked in different capacities on a variety of documentaries, including the Academy-Award nominated feature documentary, Sound & Fury, the Academy-Award nominated documentary short Why Can't We Be A Family Again? and the 2003 American Experience historical documentary The Pill. He is also currently working on The North Carolina Project, a feature documentary on alleged fugitive bomber Eric Rudolph. Joedan, who graduated with Honors from Wesleyan University, likes books by Studs Terkel, no-look passes, Les Blank movies, high-low card games, and old blues tunes. CAROL COHEN, Additional Still Photographer Carol is a portrait and fashion photographer based in New York and Los Angeles. Her work has featured John Robinson, Christian Camargo, Peter Saarsgaard, Maggie Gylenhaal, Pink and Judy Greer in such magazines as Cosmo, Nylon, Teen Vogue, Big, and GQ.