THE FILMMAKERS
STEPHEN APKON
Stephen Apkon (Director and Producer) is a filmmaker and social entrepreneur. He is the Founder and former Executive Director of the Jacob Burns Film Center, a non-profit film and education center located in Pleasantville, NY. Opened in 2001, the JBFC has become one of the premier film institutions in the United States, with a Board of Directors that includes Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard and Jonathan Demme among others. Disturbing the Peace is his directorial debut. He is a Co-Producer of Presenting Princess Shaw, directed by Ido Haar (distributed by Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media), Producer of I’m Carolyn Parker, directed by Jonathan Demme and Enlistment Days, also directed by Haar, and Executive Producer of Planetary. Mr. Apkon is the author of The Age of the Image: Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in April 2013 – foreword by Martin Scorsese.
ANDREW YOUNG
Andrew Young (Director and Cinematographer) is an acclaimed filmmaker whose work received an Academy Award nomination, two Emmy Awards, seven Emmy nominations, and five awards at the Sundance Film Festival including the “Grand Jury Prize.” He has directed and photographed over a dozen documentaries, including Children of Fate, Cutting Loose, Americanos, The Last Royals, Deadly Messengers, Lives in Hazard, Madagascar: A World Apart, and Glacier Bay: Alaska’s Wild Coast. Young is also an award-winning cinematographer who has received the Excellence in Cinematography prize at Sundance three times as well as a Cinematography Emmy Award and the Cinematography Prize at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. His work has been exhibited theatrically and on HBO, Cinemax, National Geographic, the BBC and PBS.
MARCINA HALE
Marcina Hale (Co-Producer) is co-founder of Reconsider. With degrees in both Media and Psychotherapy, it is part of Marcina’s vision to utilize film as a catalyst to create experiences that evoke thought and conversations that both challenge and inspire a way of relating to live more dynamically. Marcina is also a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT). In her roles as master therapist and dynamic facilitator, she conducts workshops that challenge and inspire others to live their lives more consciously and to take responsibility for their own creations.
ORI DERDIKMAN
Ori Derdikman (Editor) is a highly imaginative and creative film editor who has has already established a reputation as one of the most up and coming editors. She graduated from the prestigious Sam Spiegel Film & Television School in Jerusalem and has since gone on to collaborate with some of the strongest directors in Israel.
ROCCO CARUSO
Rocco Caruso (Consulting Producer) has spent more the 25 years in film and television. He began his career as an associate producer on the PBS children’s show Shining Time Station which starred Ringo Starr and an animated train that later became known as Thomas the Tank Engine. He segment-produced the CBS television special Superman’s 50th Anniversary for producer Lorne Michaels and has produced TV spots, trailers and short-form programming for MTV, HBO, PBS, Lifetime, Comedy Central, XM Radio, Showtime and Warner Bros.