Julie Bergman Sender has a unique mix of experience—from producing feature films and documentaries to groundbreaking national media campaigns. Julie began her career as a film Executive at Warner Brothers producing movies with director Sydney Pollack. Julie’s Production firm Balcony Films specializes in creating feature and documentary films and television programs and distributes visual content and large-scale campaigns for theaters, television, on-line, radio and whatever comes next. Julie recently executive produced The Garden which was nominated for an Academy award. She is currently producing, Harmony, a global environmental documentary with HRH The Prince of Wales which is due for release in 2010.

Robert Bahar is the Producer/Co-Writer of the documentary Made in L.A. (MadeinLA.com). The film, which has received an Emmy Award, the Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism and a Henry Hampton Award from the Council on Foundations, was praised by The New York Times as “"An excellent documentary...… about basic human dignity". Bahar previously produced and directed the award-winning documentary Laid to Waste, and has line-produced and production managed independent films including ITVS'’s Diary of a City Priest. In addition to his work as a filmmaker, he is the Director/Co-Founder of Doculink, a grassroots and online community of over 2,500 documentary-makers.

Lisa Smithline is a producer, marketing strategist and co-Founder of The Cultural Front: Marketing & Media. Lisa creates strategic distribution campaigns using film and new media. Lisa’s current career integrates a commitment to community organizing with an extensive background in film, television and commercial production. As founding partner of Brave New Films and director of alternative marketing at Focus Features, Lisa pioneered a new model of community-based distribution. She produces successful marketing campaigns for many popular films including Academy Award nominated TROUBLE THE WATER, Stacy Peralta’s CRIPS & BLOODS and this year’s Sundance Grand Jury winner WE LIVE IN PUBLIC.

Tracy Fleischman is a producer, communications strategist and co-Founder of The Cultural Front: Marketing and Media. Tracy has created media and strategy for non-profits and political organizations including Courage Campaign, California Democratic Party and California Teachers Association and for documentaries like Oscar-nominee TROUBLE THE WATER and Emmy-winner MADE IN L.A. During 2008, Tracy produced an election town hall series for The Media Consortium called LIVE FROM MAIN STREET, reaching nine million viewers. Tracy previously worked as Communications Director for Brave New Films and as a producer for Balcony Films where she created media for Women's Voices Women Vote and ACORN.

Jim Gilliam is the founder of 3dna, making internet tools like act.ly, GovLuv, and pro.act.ly to shake up a broken political system. He co-founded Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films, building a non-profit grassroots media powerhouse of a million members. In the late 90's, he launched Business.com as its Chief Technology Officer, and worked at Lycos, one of the first internet search engines. Gilliam produced four documentaries, and was honored in 2008 with Take Back America’s second annual Maria Leavey Tribute Award. His work has been featured in publications like the New York Times, Forbes, Wired, and the Washington Post. Jim fought cancer twice, and is the enormously grateful recipient of a bone marrow transplant and a double lung transplant.

Lisa Derrick writes La Figa for FireDogLake and hostesses FDL Movie Nights. She attended, in theory, UC Berkeley and Loyola Marymount University, but spent more time in punk rock clubs than class, eventually matriculating to autodidactic studies in lots of weird useless pop culturey stuff. She has worked for bookstores, record labels, on film sets, in nightclubs and as a freelance writer, as well as writing for and editing Grammy and Sacred History magazines. Her hobbies are religion, history, esoteric arts, and re-runs of Beverly Hills 90210, along with film noir and American melodrama.