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Edgar Barens - Director Barens received his Bachelors degree and Masters of Fine Arts in Cinema and Photography from Southern Illinois University. His body of work includes documentary films, experimental shorts, music videos and public service announcements, which have been screened at numerous film festivals, conferences, broadcast nationally and internationally, as well as distributed educationally.

 

Barens directs and produces documentary films that explore the many issues at play in the American criminal justice system. Prior to Prison Terminal, Edgar's most significant documentary film was A Sentence of Their Own for which he garnered the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) award.

 

Barens' work has received funding from the Illinois Arts Council, the Open Society Institutes' Project on Death in America and the Center on Crime, Communities and Culture, the Independent Feature Project, the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the International Documentary Association, with additional support from Working Films and the Blue Mountain Center.

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Geof Bartz - Editor Bartz has been the Supervising Editor for Documentary Films at Home Box Office since 1998. Geof started his film career as an assistant editor on the 1969 CBS Simon and Garfunkel Songs of America and has gone on to edit, or to supervise the editing, of more than 100 non-fiction films, among them the classic documentary Pumping Iron. In 2000 and 2001, two short documentaries he cut, King Gimp and Big Mama, won back-to-back Academy Awards. He has been nominated for ten Emmys and has won four.

Julia Reichert - Associate 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 subsequently nominated for the Indie Spirit Award.

 

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 additional assistance through the MacDowell Colony.

ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION CREDITS:

 

CO-EDITED BY

GLADYS MAE MURPHY

 

COMPOSER

MAX RICHTER

 

SOUND EDITOR/RE-RECORDING MIXER

CHRIS BERTOLOTTI

 

COLORIST

JON FORDHAM

FRAME:RUNNER, INC.

 

ONLINE EDITOR

PHILLIP CHALMERS

 

POST PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR

BARBARA CAVER

 

POST PRODUCTION MANAGER

ROBERT FORLENZA

 

MEDIA MANAGEMENT

JERRY HEER

 

FOR HBO:

 

COORDINATING PRODUCER

GREG RHEM

 

SENIOR PRODUCER

LISA HELLER

 

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

SHEILA NEVINS

 

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