THE FILMMAKERS

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS & DIRECTORS:

Annie Sundberg is a director, producer and writer of film and television. She is the co-director with Ricki Stern, and a producer of “The Devil Came on Horseback,” a production of Break Thru Films, (Sundance 2007, Gotham Award nominee), theatrically released by International Film Circuit, airing on National Geographic (February 2008). The film has won over seven festival awards, including Best International Film at Brit Docs. Annie and Ricki Stern have been recognized with the Best Female Filmmakers Award- San Diego Film Festival, Adrienne Shelly Excellence in Filmmaking Award and Lena Sharpe/Women in Cinema Persistence of Vision Award – Seattle International Film Festival.

Annie recently co-directed and co-produced with Ricki Stern the award-winning documentary “The Trials of Darryl Hunt,” a production of Break Thru Films, about a man who spent 20 years in prison for a brutal rape/murder he did not commit. “The Trials of Darryl Hunt” (Sundance 2006) was a 2007 Independent Spirit Award nominee for Best Documentary and has won more than twenty festival awards to date. The film premiered on HBO early 2007, followed by a theatrical and DVD release, October 2007 (THINKFilm).

Annie also produced the independent feature film “Tully,” nominated for four 2003 IFP Spirit Awards (Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Debut Performance, Best Supporting Actor). Tully screened at Toronto and London Film Festivals, and received Best Film at eleven festivals, including the Los Angeles Film Festival. Recent television directing credits include “Trailer Fabulous” for MTV. Prior to that, she directed the pilot for the series “Behind the Bash with Giada DeLaurentiis” (Food Network). Annie was Series Producer on “Family Plots” (A&E) following a family run funeral parlor in San Diego. Additional producing credits include a four part series on the Mayo Clinic for Discovery Health (2004) and the 1996 Academy Award and Emmy winning One Survivor Remembers, a co-production of HBO and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. She was co-producer of In My Corner, a feature documentary film on the world of amateur boxing and the lives of young men who train in the South Bronx, which premiered nationally as part of PBS’ award winning P.O.V. series (1999). She is currently at work on her first screenplay.

Ricki Stern is a director, producer and writer whose films have shown on HBO and PBS. She is the co-director with Annie Sundberg and a producer of “The Devil Came on Horseback, ” a production of Break Thru Films (Sundance 2007, Gotham Award nominee), theatrically released by International Film Circuit, airing on National Geographic (February 2008). The film has won over seven festival awards, including Best International Film at Brit Docs. Ricki and Annie have been recognized with the Best Female Filmmakers Award- San Diego Film Festival, Adrienne Shelly Excellence in Filmmaking Award and Lena Sharpe/Women in Cinema Persistence of Vision Award – Seattle International Film Festival.

Ricki recently co-directed and co-produced with Annie Sundberg the award-winning documentary “The Trials of Darryl Hunt,” a production of Break Thru Films, about a man who spent 20 years in prison for a brutal rape/murder he did not commit. “The Trials of Darryl Hunt” (Sundance 2006) was a 2007 Independent Spirit Award nominee for Best Documentary and has won more than twenty festival awards to date. The film premiered on HBO early 2007, followed by a theatrical and DVD release, October 2007 (THINKFilm).

Ricki is the director and co-producer of the award winning In My Corner, a documentary film on the world of amateur boxing and the lives of the young men who train in the South Bronx. The film was nationally broadcast as part of PBS’ award winning documentary series P.O.V. (Point of View). She directed and produced the EMMY nominated Neglect Not The Children, a documentary about a Harlem based youth program. Neglect Not The Children was hosted by Morgan Freeman and nationally aired on PBS. Ricki’s producing credits include the HBO’s series on forensic science “Autopsy I, II, III” and “Murder 9 to 5,” on workplace violence. Ricki is the author of a children’s book series “Beryl Bean: Mighty Adventurer of the Planet” published by HarperCollins. She founded Break Thru Films, inc. in 1990. The company is currently working on the feature film version of Darryl Hunt’s story.

CINEMATOGRAPHER/ PRODUCER:

William Rexer II is a director of photography whose most recent work includes the feature films Prime (dir: Ben Younger) and Fierce People (dir: Griffin Dunne). William has an extensive resume of commercials, documentaries and independent features. Other feature films include: Nights in Phnom Penh; Lisa Picard is Famous (GreeneStreet, Official Selection Cannes, 2000); Unmade Beds (BBC & HBO, Telluride, Toronto, Venice, London Film Festivals, 1997); Blue Note: A Story of Modern Jazz (Bravo, 1997, and SDR Arte, 1998, GRAMMY nomination, 1997); and A,B,C…Manhattan (Official Selection Cannes, 1997 Un Certain Regard and Sundance Film Festival, 1998).

As a documentary cinematographer he has worked for several companies, including the BBC, Channel 4, PBS, ABC, NBC, MTV, Audubon, and the Discovery Channel. His documentary films for television include Obsession with Orchids PBS/Nature/BBC, 2000); David Blaine: Magic Man (ABC, 1999); In My Corner (ITVS, 1998); John Denver: Let This be a Voice (PBS/Nature, 1998); Side by Side, AIDS and Zimbabwe (Berlin Film Festival, 1994); Belly Talkers, (Sundance Film Festival, 1996); Neglect Not the Children (1993 Cine Golden Eagle & Emmy Nominee, PBS, 1993). His early work includes White Dresses and When God doesn’t Listen, two political shorts made in Nicaragua by the award-winning documentary director Ana Coyne Alonso. In 2001 the Sundance Film Festival presented two of his shorts: Simon Blake’s Minotaur (Sony Dreams HD-24P) and Ralph Macchio’s Love Thy Brother (Showtime. 2002).

EDITOR:
Shannon Kennedy is an artist and editor. Her artwork has appeared in numerous museum exhibitions, including solo exhibitions at the St. Louis Art Museum and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Her work has received numerous awards. As an editor, she works primarily in the documentary field. The Trials of Darryl Hunt is her second feature documentary.

COMPOSER: Paul Brill

Paul Brill’s compositions for numerous award-winning films, TV series and commercials,
 an NPR program theme, and several acclaimed CDs of original and innovative songwriting
show that youthful adventures as an herbal smokes salesman, street performer, valet,
 corporate errand boy, and a marine biology instructor can serve the creative spirit well.

Paul’s original score for the film, The Devil Came on Horeseback,
 was recently nominated for an EMMY AWARD; his score for the
 celebrated HBO film, The Trials of Darryl Hunt, was also nominated
for an EMMY AWARD and was hailed by Variety as
 “memorably chilling, sounding notes of purest dread.”
 Young American Recordings recently released the Hunt soundtrack,
 curated by Brill, featuring selections from his score and contributions
 by Andrew Bird, M. Ward, and Mark Kozelek among many others.

Paul recently scored the much-heralded HBO film, “Right America:
 Feeling Wronged,” and his work on the award winning
 documentary “Full Battle Rattle” earned much distinction.

Brill is currently the composer for the acclaimed A+E
television programs “The First 48,” “The Interrogators,”
National Geographic’s “Rescue Ink,” and the upcoming A+E
series, “Runaway Squad” and “Steven Seagal: Lawman.”
He has completed upcoming films for MTV, History Channel,
Discovery Channel, PBS, among others, and is currently at work on the film
adaptation of the best-selling book, Freakonomics.

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