TEAM:

YONI BROOK
Director/Producer
Yoni Brook is an independent photographer and documentary film director. He has worked as a photojournalist at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, and The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal. He is regularly assigned to cover stories of national significance, such as Hurricane Katrina for Fortune and advertising campaigns for Target.

Brook's photography has received the field's highest honors at the Pictures of the Year International and Best of Photojournalism competitions. He was named the national College Photographer of the Year by the Missouri School of Journalism and was the youngest ever to be selected for Photo District News' “30 Photographers to Watch”. He speaks regularly about photojournalism and has instructed students at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

His first film, A SON’S SACRIFICE, won Best Documentary Short at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. He is currently co-directing two films with Musa Syeed for national ITVS/PBS broadcast: THE CALLING, about young religious leaders, and BRONX PRINCESS, about a teenager confronting her royal African heritage.

He is an alumnus of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and was selected to attend the CPB/PBS Producers Academy at WGBH in Boston.

MUSA SYEED
Producer
Syeed is an independent filmmaker and writer. He is currently co-directing two films with Yoni Brook for national ITVS/PBS broadcast: THE CALLING, about young religious leaders, and BRONX PRINCESS, about a teenager confronting her royal African heritage.

Syeed was a Fulbright Fellow in Cairo, Egypt, where he focused on experimental filmmaking. As a writer, he produced original theatrical work for the Children's Museum of Manhattan and is the film editor for Islamica Magazine.

Syeed has worked as an educator in schools, community centers, and prisons. In the coming academic year he will be a professor of documentary production at Williams College. He serves as an advisor for film and television companies, including Thirteen/WNET.

He is an alumnus of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and the Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies Department.

MARCO WILLIAMS
Executive Producer
Williams is an award winning documentary and fiction film director. For over twenty-five years he has produced films confronting issues of race, ethnicity, and family relationships.

His most recent film, BANISHED, premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and will air on Independent Lens in February 2008.

His films include I Sit Where I Want: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education (2004), MLK Boulevard: The Concrete Dream (2003), Two Towns of Jasper (2002), Making Peace; Rebuilding our Communities (1995), The Pursuit of Happiness: With Arianna Huffington (1994), Without A Pass (1992), In Search of Our Fathers (1991), and From Harlem To Harvard (1982).

CREDITS

Directed and Produced by
Yoni Brook

Produced by
Musa Syeed

Executive Producer:
Marco Williams

Photography:
Yoni Brook

Sound Recording:
Musa Syeed

Supervising Editor:
Mary Manhardt

Editing:
Jacob Okada
Yoni Brook

Assistant Editor:
Adam Morrow

Music by
John McDowell

Music Mixer:
Daniel Baruch

Male Vocal: Santoneel Dhar
Female Vocal: Selima Islam
Bansuri Flute: Steve Gorn
Sitar: Alyn Miner
Sitar: Patab Boss
Tabla: Dibyarka Chatterjee
Dotar: Wes Wirth
Percussion/Keyboards: John McDowell

Sound Design and Mix:
Tom Paul
Eric Milano

Post Production Supervisor:
Julia Mintz

Graphic Design:
Joseph Silver

Offline Editing Facility:
Goldcrest Post Production

Online Facility:
Postworks

Colorist: Scot Olive

Production assistance provided by
Two Tone Productions
Lentini Communications
Scharff Weisberg
FYI PR
Kanbar Institute of Film & Television, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Legal Services:
Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo, P.C.

Accounting:
Todres & Company, LLP