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Director Alex Gibney was called “the most important documentarian of our time,” by Esquire Magazine. He has a signature cinematic style that lends itself to penetrating, gripping, and deeply insightful documentaries. He has been the recipient of an Academy Award, multiple Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, several Peabody Awards, the DuPont-Columbia Award, The Independent Spirit Award and Writers Guild Awards. In 2013, Alex was honored with the International Documentary Association’s (IDA) Career Achievement Award, in 2015 the inaugural Christopher Hitchens Prize, and the Robert J. Flaherty Award in 2019.

Some of Gibney’s notable films include the triple Emmy Award-winning film, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, which was also the recipient of a Peabody Award, and named the most watched non-music HBO documentary; the Academy Award-winning, Taxi to The Dark Side; the Academy Award-nominated, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room; the multiple Emmy Award-winning, Mea Maxima Culpa; The Armstrong Lie; We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks'; the Peabody award-winning, Zero Days; No Stone Unturned, which premiered at the New York Film Festival in September of 2017 and was nominated for the WGA Award for Best Documentary Screenplay and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Documentary; HBO’s Sinatra: All or Nothing at All, a two-part special on legendary entertainer Frank Sinatra; and Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge (2017), which was co-directed by Blair Foster.

Alex also executive produced and directed the first episode of The Looming Tower, a popular Hulu drama series based on Lawrence Wright’s book of the same name. Additionally, his film The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Documentary and won the WGA Award for Best Documentary Screenplay. Gibney’s most recent film, Citizen K, world premiered at 76th Venice International Film Festival in 2019 and was released theatrically this year.

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Heidi has cast a broad array of films from the Academy Award-winning Best Picture, The Artist, directed by Michel Hazanavicius, to films for directors including Oliver Stone, Wayne Wang, Sally Potter, Wim Wenders, Diego Luna, Kim Nguyen and Neil Labute. Other notable films cast include JFK, Nixon, Natural Born Killers, The Rock, The Joy Luck Club, and executive produced and cast Wayne Wang’s film Coming Home Again, starring Justin Chon, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019. Additionally, she cast and co-produced Sally Potter’s film, The Roads Not Taken, starring Javier Bardem, Elle Fanning, Laura Linney and Salma Hayek which premiered at Berlinale 2020 and was released by Bleecker Street Pictures.

In partnership with Alex Gibney, Heidi is producing an anthology series titled, Exiles on Main Street, which is rooted in short stories and dramatized as one-hour episodes. Each episode is based on a different fictional short story by our most celebrated authors. The stories deal with culture clash and the immigrant and refugee experience, weaving together a tapestry of what it means to live in America as an “exile on main street.”

Heidi is a member of AMPAS and The Casting Society of America, having won four Artios Awards for her casting in both film and theatre. She is a graduate of Barnard College and The American Film Institute, where she is now an adjunct professor.

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Lisa Rinzler is an award-winning cinematographer who has shot many feature films, documentaries and commercials. Recent projects include the 2020 Academy Award-winning documentary short, How to Learn to Skateboard in a War-Zone (if You’re a Girl), the 2019 Sundance Audience Award-winning documentary, The Infiltrators and the 2018 acclaimed documentary, Pope Francis: A Man Of His Word.

She is also known for her moody lighting and dynamic camerawork on films such as Menace II Society, Dead Presidents, Pollack and The Soul of a Man. With over 30 years of experience, Lisa has worked with notable directors, including Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Alex Gibney, Steve Buscemi and Ed Harris.

Lisa received two Independent Spirit Awards for Best Cinematography, a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography, among many other notable awards. She is also the subject of two documentaries, Women Behind the Camera and Visions Of Light.

Lisa studied Painting at Pratt Institute before transferring to NYU to study film.