STEVE LISS - DIRECTOR

For twenty-three years Steve was a Time magazine photographer, where he covered six U.S. presidents and photographed 43 covers on assignment, the second highest number in the history of the magazine. He has received five Emmy nominations for his work as a television director and producer, as well as a Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Award. His documentaries have been shown on the Discovery Channel, PBS and MTV. His second RFK Human Rights Award honored his book, No Place for Children: Voices from Juvenile Detention, for which he was also awarded the World Understanding Award from the University of Missouri.

GEORGE GIGLIO

C0-DIRECTOR/EDITOR



George is a four-time Emmy-nominated director for his documentaries that explore the efforts of Northern Arapaho Elders to preserve their cultural heritage and his work with Boston Filmworks. His films include "Arapaho Truths", which aired on PBS, has been screened on three continents and has received numerous awards, including Best Inspirational Film at the Culture and Diversity Film Festival, and the Grand Prize at The Atlanta Children's Film Festival. In addition to his documentary work, George has directed and edited promotional films for various non-profits, collaborating with organizations such as Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, St. Stephens Indian School, and Oxfam America.

ZAK PPIPER - PRODUCER

Zak is an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker, with more than 20 years in the non-fiction field. His films have screened at Sundance, the Tribecca Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival, and have been broadcast on NatGeo and CNN. Most recently, Zak produced "The Luckiest Guy in the World," a docuseries about the life and career NBA Legend Bill Walton for ESPN's 30 for 30. The film  premiered at South by Southwest in 2023 and won the Audience Award. With Boston Filmworks, Zak produced "16 & Recovering" for MTV for which he received an RFK Human Rights Journalism Award. 

BILL HEALY - STORY PRODUCER

Bill Healy is an award-winning investigative journalist. He has produced two podcasts with the Invisible Institute in Chicago: “You Didn’t See Nothin” and “Somebody”. “You Didn’t See Nothin” won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting, the Peabody Award and a National Magazine Award and an IDA Award. “Somebody” won a Third Coast Award, National Magazine Award, an IDA Award, a Scripps Howard Award and a Headliner Award. Over the course of his career Bill has worked on stories with NPR, the BBC and “This American Life”. In 2012 he won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for16 and Recovering with Boston Filmworks.

"As Senior Vice-President, I’ve worked with dozens of directors and  producers at the top of their game. Steve Liss would be in the top tier among this group. But what really made Steve stand out to me was his multilayered understanding that being a filmmaker carries with it a moral obligation not only to the audience but to the subjects who have trusted him to tell their story."

Ben Hurvitz, Senior Vice President, CBS/Viacom