THE TILLMAN STORY is Amir Bar-Lev’s third feature film. His directorial debut, FIGHTER, was released theatrically in the fall of 2001, aired on IFC, and was named one of the top documentaries of the year by Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice and other major publications. It won six international awards and was called “brilliant,” by The New Yorker, “enthralling” by the New York Times, and “one of the best documentaries of this year or any other” by Rolling Stone.

Bar-Lev’s second film, MY KID COULD PAINT THAT, was released internationally by Sony Pictures Classics in 2007, with broadcast on Starz, A&E and BBC. New York Newsday called it “a mysterious, gripping metadocumentary… that reflects upon the thorny, unpredictable process of capturing a real-life story on film at the same time it’s trying to figure out what the story is.” According to At The Movies With Ebert and Roeper, it was “one of the best documentaries of this or any other year.”

Bar-Lev traveled to New Orleans nine days after Hurricane Katrina and began filming a young married couple, both crack dealers, with a heroic story of survival during the storm and an uncertain future ahead. Bar-Lev served as co-producer on the resulting film, TROUBLE THE WATER, which was a 2009 Academy Award Nominee. TROUBLE THE WATER also took the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, the Grand Jury Award at Full Frame, a Special Jury Mention at Silverdocs, won the IFP Gotham Award for Best Documentary, and was nominated for the PGA Documentary prize, and the NAACP Image Awards Best Documentary.

Bar-Lev has taught documentary at NYU, produced and executive produced shows for the Sundance Channel, VH1, MTV, Spike, and The Weather Channel, as well as directed numerous award-winning short films. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and infant daughter, who was born during the final weeks of editing THE TILLMAN STORY.

In 1999 John conceived and produced ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER which won an Academy Award in 2000 and an Emmy in 2001. He has since been responsible for a variety of high profile feature documentaries, many of which have achieved International theatrical distribution.

These include John Dower’s LIVE FOREVER and ONCE IN A LIFETIME; Gary Tarn’s BLACK SUN); Jeremy Gilley’s PEACE ONE DAY and the follow-up film: THE DAY AFTER PEACE.

Battsek executive produced Dan Gordon’s trio of North Korean films: THE GAME OF THEIR LIVES; A STATE OF MIND and CROSSING THE LINE. Further co-productions include: IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON (Audience Award winner, 2007 Sundance Film Fest World Documentary Competition); Amir Bar Lev’s acclaimed MY KID COULD PAINT THAT and THE AGE OF STUPID (Sunny Side Film Market ‘Best Green Doc’ and winner of the Grierson Green award 2008).

More recently, John produced I’M NOT DEAD YET winner of a Grierson in the Best Newcomer category for BBC Storyville and executive produced Ondi Timoner’s WE LIVE IN PUBLIC, which won the Sundance 2009 Grand Jury US Documentary Award. He also produced Greg Barker’s SERGIO—based on the book by Pulitzer Prize winning author Samantha Power–which received the 2009 Sundance US Documentary Editing Award and has been short-listed for an Academy Award 2010 nomination.

2010’s Sundance Film Festival will see the premiere of two new feature documentaries in competition: THE TILLMAN STORY and RESTREPO–which will open the festival – an extraordinary insight into the daily lives of soldiers currently fighting in Afghanistan’s strategically crucial Korengal Valley, directed by Sebastian Junger (The Perfect Storm) and Tim Hetherington.

John has also produced a number of drama feature films, and with a background in theatrical distribution and marketing, he brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in all aspects of film-making and distribution.

Molly Thompson launched and runs A&E IndieFilms, the network’s feature documentary division. She executive produces the division’s original productions including: JESUS CAMP, a film by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, which was nominated for an Academy Award; AMERICAN TEEN, a film by Nanette Burstein, which won best director at Sundance 2008 and was released theatrically in July 2008; and THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE, a film on Anna Wintour by R.J. Cutler, which won best cinematographer at Sundance 2009 and opened theatrically in the US and around the world in September 2009. Other A&E IndieFilms include the Oscar nominated, Sundance Award-winner MURDEBALL; and MY KID COULD PAINT THAT. Her other current projects include a film on Eliot Spitzer directed by Alex Gibney.

Caitrin Rogers began her career in 2004 as an assistant editor, working in post-production for a variety of companies including MTV, Vh1, BET and Disney. In 2005 she started working with award-winning editor Paul Crowder (DOGTOWN ANS Z-BOYS, RIDING GIANTS) on ONCE IN A LIFETIME, which he edited and co-directed and was nominated for the 2007 WGA Award, 2006 IDA award and selected for 2006 Berlin Film festival. Following her work on OIAL Caitrin moved on to work with Crowder again for an Amazing Journey: THE STORY OF THE WHO (Nominated for a 2009 Grammy Award).

Rogers is currently working with Sundance award winning SERGIO director Greg Barker at Silverbridge Productions.

Philip Sheppard is a film composer, solo cellist and a Professor at the Royal Academy of Music.

Recent films include IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON (which won numerous awards including the World Documentary Prize at Sundance), HENRY MIND OF A TYRANT for David Starkey’’s landmark C4 series and the forthcoming feature SERGIO (which has just been short-listed for an Oscar).

Philip has been commissioned to compose the soundtrack to the PBS flagship series GOD IN AMERICA which will be broadcast throughout 2010.

He was commissioned to compose and produce the music for the London 2012 Handover sequence at the 2008 Beijing Olympics Closing Ceremony featuring Jimmy Page and Leona Lewis. This included devising a new Buckingham Palace-approved arrangement of the UK National Anthem.

Philip has produced the music for two recent BBC TV live events; THE MANCHESTER PASSION and THE LIVERPOOL NATIVITY. Philip was awarded the BBC award for Best Music Production of the year for his arranging and directing work on the PASSION Project.

His stage works include the ballet “Sacred Monsters” for Sylvie Guillem and Akram Khan, and the theatre dance piece “In-I” starring Khan and the actress Juliette Binoche. His track “Rain, Steam and Speed” was featured in Complicite’s adaptation of “The Elephant Vanishes.” He has also collaborated many times with photographer/ filmmaker Nick Knight as well as Alexander McQueen and Damien Hirst.

He regularly writes and plays with UNKLE and has written and arranged tracks with numerous rock musicians including Scott Walker, Jeff Buckley, Suzanne Vega, David Bowie and Jarvis Cocker.

Igor was Director of Photography on MAN ON WIRE—winner of Academy Award 2009 for Best Documentary; BAFTA for Best British Film 2009; Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at Sundance Film Festival 2008 among other awards.

Igor was also Director of Photography on numerous feature films: PADRE NUESTRO/SANGRE DE MI SANGRE—Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic Category at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival; FRAULEIN—Golden Leopard at Locarno Film Festival; BUIK RIVIERA—Best Film at Sarajevo Film Festival 2008; RED RIDING-1980 directed by James Marsh. His most recent project was BBC TV series WALLANDER.