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2012 Lab Leaders

Scott Macaulay, Producer (Raising Victor Vargas), Editor-in-Chief, Filmmaker Magazine
Joana Vicente, Producer (Welcome to the Dollhouse, Coffee and Cigarettes), IFP Executive Director
Jon Reiss, Filmmaker, Author (Bomb It, Think Outside The Box Office)
Maureen A. Ryan, Producer, Author (The Gates ; co-producer Man on Wire and Project Nim; Producer to Producer)
Susan Motamed, Producer (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room; series producer, The Blues),

Past Mentors

Editors

Tricia Cooke (The Big Lebowski), Carol Dysinger (Camp Victory, Afghanistan), Penelope Falk (Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work), Sabine Hoffman (The Private Lives of Pippa Lee), Brian Kates (Shortbus), Nancy Kennedy (Why We Fight), Mary Lampson (Harlan County USA), Mary Manhardt (American Teen), Jonathan Oppenheim (Paris is Burning), Lee Percy (Boys Don’t Cry), Sam Pollard (When the Levees Broke), Nat Sanders (Humpday), John W. Walter (Capitalism: A Love Story), Adam Zucker (Carol Channing: Larger Than Life)

Music Composers

Mychael Danna (Moneyball), T. Griffin (Children of Invention), Nathan Larson (The Kids are Alright); David Mansfield (Transamerica), David Torn (Lars and the Real Girl). Music Supervisor Barry Cole (Notorious; Trouble the Water)

Finishing & Post-Production Strategy

Deluxe New York, Dig It Audio, Edgeworx Studios, Goldcrest Post New York, Sound Lounge

Marketing & Outreach Strategy

Caitlin Boyle, Film Sprout (If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front); Adam Kersh & Tom Cunha, Brigade Marketing (Hump Day); Paola Freccero & Liz Ogilvie, Crowdstarter (A Letter to Elia); Sara Kiener & Merrill Sterritt, Film Presence (Crazy Horse); Marian Koltai-Levine & Freida Orange, PMK*BNC (Bass Ackwards), Caspar Newbolt, Version Industries (Here); Mother New York

Distribution Strategy

Richard Abramowitz, Abramorama (Anvil! The Story of Anvil); Josh Braun, Submarine Entertainment (Man on Wire); Jim Browne, Argot Pictures (Street Fight); Julie Goldman, Motto Pictures (Buck); Diana Holtzberg, Films Transit (The Most Dangerous Man in America); Ryan Kampe & Aida LiPera, Visit Films (Myth of the American Sleepover); Dylan Marchetti, Variance Films (Littlerock); Erin Owens, Long Shot Factory (Being Elmo); Steven Raphael, Required Viewing (Ballast); Todd Sklar, Range Life Entertainment (Exit Through The Gift Shop); Ronna Wallace, Eastgate Pictures (Restless City); Lance Weiler (Head Trauma)

Documentary One-to-One Mentors

Doug Block (director, The Kids Grow Up), Marshall Curry (director, If a Tree Falls), Danae Elon (director, Partly Private), Ross Kauffman (director/producer Born Into Brothels), Meg McLagan (director, Lioness), Andrea Meditch (executive producer, Grizzly Man), Michel Negroponte (director, I’m Dangerous With Love), Esther Robinson (director,  A Walk into the Sea), Nancy Roth (producer, Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi), Ira Sachs (director, Married Life), Jennifer Maytorena Taylor (director, New Muslim Cool),  Cynthia Wade (director, Freeheld), Marco Williams (director, Two Towns of Jasper)

Narrative One-to-One Mentors

Lisa Cortes (exec producer, Precious), Howard Gertler, (producer, Shortbus), Barry Jenkins, (director, Medicine for Melancholy), Lars Knudsen & Jay Van Hoy (producers, Beginners), Kyle Martin (producer, Tiny Furniture), Gretchen McGowan, (Producer The Limits of Control), Josh Mond (producer, Martha Marcy May Marlene), Peter Phok (producer, The Innkeepers), Matthew Porterfield (director, Putty Hill), Mike S. Ryan (exec. producer, Meek’s Cutoff), Frida Torresblanco (producer, Pan’s Labyrinth), Alicia Van Couvering (producer, Tiny Furniture), David & Nathan Zellner (director/producer, Goliath)

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