MARISA FOX

Writer, Director, Producer

A veteran print, broadcast (WNET, VH1, Fx) and digital journalist, Marisa Fox has produced social impact campaigns for Hearst, earning American Society of Magazine Editors awards and nominations. She has written extensively on gender, genocide, sexual trauma and extremism (The Daily Beast, CNN, Ms.,The New York Times, Elle, Health, The Forward and Ha’aretz, where she was a U.S. correspondent) and is a “she source” for the Women’s Media Center, started by Gloria Steinem. My Underground Mother, Fox’s directorial debut, led her to curate and unveil Holocaust memorials in Poland and the Czech Republic, and a digital exhibit of women’s testimonies curated with USC’s Shoah Foundation. She received a Humanitarian Award for recording 50+women’s testimonies.

DEBORAH SHAFFER

Producer

Guggenheim Fellow and Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Deborah Shaffer directed the NEH-funded The Wobblies (1979), which was added to the National Film Registry in 2021. Shaffer has focused on human rights, from her Academy Award-winning short Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements (1984) to the Academy Award-nominated short Asylum (2003) andLadies First: The Women of Rwanda (Emmy, WNET, 2004). Her most recent film, Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack (2019), premiered at DOC NYC and won the Audience Award and Best Documentary at the Hamptons Documentary Film Festival.

RACHEL REICHMAN

Editor

With a body of Emmy and Peabody Award-winning work, editor Rachel Reichman has focused on global women’s issues through films like Ladies First, about Rwandan women’s struggle to mobilize after genocide, and the PBS series Women, War and Peace, directed by Gini Reticker and Abigail Disney. She also edited Martin Scorsese’s Letter to Elia and Hitchcock Truffaut; Peace Unveiled (PBS) and co-directed and edited Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack. She also has won a Sigma Delta Chi Award, the Overseas Press Club Edward R. Murrow Award and others, and has worked for Nat Geo, Discovery, Bravo, IFC, History and The NY Times

Halil Efrat

Additional Editor

Jerusalem-born, award-winning filmmaker and editor Halil Efrat was on the 2025 Oscar shortlist for the Alex Gibney produced documentary The Bibi Files. He is known for such films as Tantura, Foreign Land, Trophy, Aida’s Secrets, Album 61 and Souvenirs.

SLAWOMIR GRUNBERG

Director of Photography

Grunberg is a Polish-born, Jewish American award-winning documentary producer, director, cameraman who has directed and produced over 50 documentaries, including School Prayer: A Community at War for PBS, which received an Emmy Award. His film, Karski and the Lords of Humanity won a 2016 Lavr Award. He has shot documentaries for HBO and PBS series Frontline, AIDS Quarterly, American Masters and NOVA.

Dror Lebendiger

2nd Director of Photography

Lebendiger is an award-winning cinematographer who has shot films for directors like David Attenborough, Emmy Award winning James Jacoby) andAlex Weresow. His credits include Sabbath Queen, The Center, Spinoza, LaCerca and Holocaust themed Stalags and Who Will Remain.

MAIA HARRIS

Script Consultant

Maia Harris is a two-time Emmy Award winner with 20 years experience writing and producing many PBS documentaries, namely GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II, about young European Jewish refugees who found redemption by returning to Europe to liberate it from the Nazis; Our Journey Through History, a 10-part series about a Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn; No Job for a Woman, about women reporters during WWII; and Banished, about racial cleansing in three American towns, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Harris holds a B.A. from Harvard College and an M.S. from Teachers’ College, Columbia University.

Deborah Oppenheimer

Executive Producer

A television veteran, Deborah won an Academy award for her documentary Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, based on her mother’s wartime past, which was preserved by the National Film Registry and recognized by the Library of Congress. She also wrote and produced Foster, which received a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay in 2020. She was president of Mohawk Productions at Warner Bros, executive vice president of NBC Universal International TV Production, and executive VP of Carnival Films, where she conceived and led U.S. strategies for Downtown Abbey. She was selected as a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council by U.S. President Barack Obama.

Nancy Spielberg

Executive Producer

Nancy has collaborated with director Roberta Grossman, is known for Who Will Write Our History, which had a global theatrical release through UNESCO on International Holocaust Remembrance Day and was shown at 300 venues around the world. Her titles include Vishniac, Closed Circuit, Aulcie, and Above and Beyond, about Jewish American pilots who fought for Israel’s Independence.

Michael Berenbaum

Executive Producer

A leading Holocaust scholar, rabbi, and writer, Berenbaum was a founding director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and an Academy Award, Emmy and Cable Ace Award-winning producer of several Holocaust films (One Survivor Remembers, Blessed is the Match, Defiance). He was also president/CEO of Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and is Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute of Holocaust studies at American Jewish University.

SCHOLAR ADVISORS

The film’s consultants include Holocaust post-trauma pioneer and clinical psychologist Dr. Eva Fogelman, writer and co-producer of award-winning PBS documentary Breaking the Silence; UNESCO chair and USC Shoah Foundation executive director emeritus Stephen Smith and distinguished professors of history, Holocaust, genocide, gender and interfaith studies like Atina Grossmann, Natalia Aleksiun, Mehnaz Afridi and Björn Krondorfer.

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