BIOS

Lizzie Gottlieb (Director) Lizzie directs theater and film in New York City. She was a founder and producer of Pure Orange Productions - a theater company dedicated to producing new plays Off Broadway. She directed their productions of Keith Bunin's Principality of Sorrows, Julia Jordan's Tatjana in Color, and Marking by Patrick Breen (later made into the film Just a Kiss). Her short film, Why Don't You Dance, based of a Raymond Carver story, screened at festivals across the country.

Ben Forgash (Editor) Ben Forgash, has edited everything from music videos to television commercials to documentaries. He began his editing career producing short biographical segments for CBS during the day and editing them overnight. He then worked as the assistant to the director/editor of the PBS American Masters Special documentary The Lives of Lillian Hellman. In the same capacity he worked on a documentary for Castle Hill Productions entitled Shakespeare's Women: Claire Bloom. Ben entered the feature world by assisting the editor on director Marc Forster's film Everything Put Together, which premiered at Sundance and won the Independent Spirit Award. He has edited for the human rights organization Witness, where his piece, A Right for Justice was featured at The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival at the Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center. Ben also worked on the HBO documentary, The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt.

Jen Small (Co-producer) Jen was a producer with the independent film company Gigantic Pictures for seven years. During her tenure there, she produced Nisha Ganatra's Cosmopolitan, Julia Solomonoff's The Suitor, and Jeff Winner's Satellite. Independently, she was the executive producer on Julia Solomonoff's feature, Hermanas, and produced The Smile of Isaac for Arte. She's currently producing Emily Hubley's fearture debut, The Toe Tactic and Sherman Alexie's adaptation of his award-winning short story What You Pawn I Will Redeem. She has also contributed to NPR's This American Life.