Ross McElwee has made nine feature-length documentaries as well as a number of shorter films. McElwee’s films have been included in the festivals of New York, Berlin, Toronto, London, Vienna, Rotterdam, Florence, and Sydney. Sherman’s March, declared a “historically significant American motion picture” by the Library of Congress, won Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. Bright Leaves premiered at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight before being distributed theatrically in Europe and the United States.  Bright Leaves was nominated for Best Documentary of 2004 by both the Director’s Guild of America and the Writer’s Guild of America. McElwee teaches documentary filmmaking at Harvard University. 

Marie-Emmanuelle Hartness is a specialist in the adaption of theater and film across multiple media and languages. Hartness has been involved in films appearing in festivals of Cannes, Toronto, Prague, Paris, Clermont-Ferrand, et Locarno. Born in Paris, France she completed research work at la Sorbonne in 2001, and has accumulated experience in various independent multimedia production formats, including screenwriting, literature, translation, television, theater and film.