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Julia Reichert - Assoc. Producer
Reichert is a two-time Academy Award Nominee for Best Feature Documentary for Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists and Union Maids. These films and two others, Growing Up Female and Methadone - An American Way Of Dealing, all screened nationally in the U.S. on PBS.

Reichert and partner Steven Bognar won the Prime Time Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Non-Fiction Filmmaking for their four-hour epic documentary A Lion In The House . Lion was a prime time special over two nights on PBS, and was nominated for the Indie Spirit Award. Reichert wrote, produced and directed the feature film Emma & Elvis (which screened at numerous international film festivals), and produced (with Steven Bognar) The Dream Catcher , a feature film directed by Ed Radtke. The Dream Catcher has screened in over 20 international film festivals, won numerous awards and is seen on the Sundance Channel.

Reichert's work has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the American Film Institute, and ITVS. She has received a Fulbright Fellowship and with Steven Bognar is a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, and has received support from the Ohio Arts Council and the MacDowell Colony.

Carol McAdoo – Advisor
Carol McAdoo is founder and principal of the McAdoo Resource Network. Founded in 1997, the work of MRN is focused on personal and professional development and positive organizational change. Most recently Carol has been working with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization to support the development of palliative and hospice care in prisons and jails across the country.

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Penelope Falk - Consult. Editor After receiving an MFA in Film Production from the University of Texas at Austin, Penelope Falk moved to New York to work as a documentary editor.

She started her career on Jennifer Fox's groundbreaking series, An mericab Love Story. Other credits include: A Letter Without Words (Sundance Film Festival), Bombay Eunuch (winner of the New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festival), Stagedoor (debuted at the New York Film Forum), Election Day (SXSW Film Festival), Smile Til It Hurts (Slamdance) and Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (Sundance Film Festival, winner Excellence in Editing Award).

She has also done numerous films for television. These credits include Afghan Stories (the Sundance Channel), Uncle Sam Wants You (A&E), Escuela (PBS) and Unfinished Country (PBS)

Dean Hairston – Advisor
Professor and Dean of the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Director of the Jane Addams Center for Social Policy and Research, and Editor of The Journal of Offender Rehabilitation.

Dr. Hairston has developed family programs for correctional populations, conducted research, and written extensively on the impact of incarceration on children and families. Her most recent publications examine women's views of men's incarceration, public policies and fathers in prison, and kinship care when parents are incarcerated.

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