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LIZ GARBUS , DIRECTOR/PRODUCER
Academy Award®-Nominated and Emmy® Award-Winning Producer/Director Liz Garbus is
one of America's most accomplished and prolific documentary filmmakers. In 1998,
Garbus achieved international public and critical acclaim for her Academy Award® -
nominated film, The Farm: Angola USA. Made in collaboration with Jonathan Stack,
THE FARM was the result of a three-year relationship that the filmmakers fostered with
Louisiana Corrections Officials and with six men confined at the Louisiana State
Penitentiary at Angola. In addition to its Oscar nod, The Farm won the Grand Jury Prize
at the Sundance Film Festival, two Emmy® Awards, the National Film Critics Best
Documentary of the Year, and other awards and festivals.
Following The Farm's success, Garbus co-founded Moxie Firecracker Films with
producer/director Rory Kennedy. With Garbus directing and Kennedy producing, the two
made the feature-length documentary Girlhood, which tells the story of two young girls
convicted of violent crimes, and was called "one of the most important films of the year"
by LA Weekly. In 2002, Garbus's feature documentary The Execution of Wanda Jean
premiered at the Sundance film festival and aired later that year on HBO's America
Undercover series. In 2005, Garbus and Kennedy were Executive Producers of Street
Fight (aired on PBS), which was nominated for the Academy Award® in the 'Best
Documentary' category, and won a Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award. In 2006
Moxie Firecracker collaborated with Rosie Perez (Do the Right Thing) to produce Yo
Soy Boricua, Pa'que Tu Lo Sepas for IFC. Garbus and Kennedy's credits also include
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, for HBO, which premiered at Sundance and won the Emmy® for
Outstanding Non-Fiction Special of 2007, and Coma for HBO Documentary Films, which
aired in July 2007. Most recently, Garbus produced and directed SHOUTING FIRE:
Stories From The Edge Of Free Speech, which will premiere at Sundance this
January, and be broadcast on HBO in 2009.
Garbus graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brown University in 1992 and is a Fellow of
the Open Society's Center on Crime, Communities, and Culture.
RORY KENNEDY, PRODUCER
Rory Kennedy is an Emmy Award® winning independent documentary filmmaker, and is
co-founder and president of Moxie Firecracker Films. Her films have covered an array of
issues ranging from poverty to human rights. Her work has been featured on HBO, A&E,
MTV, Lifetime, and PBS. She has directed and produced many feature documentaries
including Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, (Primetime Emmy® Award winner for Best Non Fiction
Film, 2007), Pandemic: Facing AIDS, American Hollow and A Boy's Life, all of which
were broadcast on HBO.
JED ROTHSTEIN, PRODUCER
Jed Rothstein has been working in film since 1995. Recent projects include episodes of
The IFC Media Project, and COMA, the HBO documentary feature he produced with
director Liz Garbus. He also produced and directed God's Next Army, a documentary
on fundamentalist Christian college students. Other work includes producing
Democracy on Deadline: The Global Struggle for an Independent Press, for PBS,
and working on the BBC-Discovery production Kids Behind Bars, for which he received
the 2002 EMMY for Research. In 2003, he won a CINE GOLDEN EAGLE for his work as
the co-Producer of Rory Kennedy's Pandemic: Facing AIDS, also for HBO. Currently,
he is directing Heavy Metal Islam, a feature documentary telling the story of heavy
metal in the Muslim world.
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