In his 27 years producing for FRONTLINE, Martin Smith has covered the world: from revolution in Central America and the fall of communism in Russia, to the rise of Al Qaeda and the war in Iraq. Smith was among the first journalists to investigate Col. Oliver North's clandestine network and one of the first western reporters to investigate the emergence of Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda network.

In 1998, Smith founded RAINmedia, an independent production company in New York city. Since founding Rain, Smith has produced and reported dozens of hours for FRONTLINE, including: Hunting bin Laden (1999); the four-hour series Drug Wars (2000); and two documentaries looking at the roots of 9/11 -- Looking for Answers (2001) and Saudi Time Bomb? (2001). Smith's reporting after 9-11 garnered him an Alferd I. Dupont Gold Baton, one of the highest honors in broadcast journalism.

After the invasion of Iraq, Smith produced four films for FRONTLINE including: Gangs of Iraq (2007), Private Warriors (2005), Beyond Baghdad (2004) and Truth, War and Consequences (2003). The latter won the Alfred I. Dupont Silver Baton.

Smith has also covered the conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan for FRONTLINE, producing the award winning trilogy, In Search of Al Qaeda (2002), in which he followed in the footsteps of Al Qaeda after the battle of Tora Bora, Return of the Taliban (2006), where reported from the forbidden tribal areas of western Pakistan, and Obama's War (2009), a film on the difficulty of implementing a counter insurgency strategy in Afghanistan.

He has also reported the recent natural disasters in New Orleans and Haiti. In 2005 he produced The Storm , an Emmy Award-winning look at Hurricane Katrina and the state of America's emergency response system; and in 2010, The Quake , a powerful report on Haiti's tragedy.

Smith is considered one of the most prolific producers with FRONTLINE. Apart from foreign reporting, he has produced three business films including Dot Con (2002), about the rise and fall of the internet economy; Heat (2008), about business and climate change; and The Madoff Affair, an investigation into the world's first global Ponzi scheme, which won an Emmy for Outstanding Documentary on a Business Topic, a Writer's Guild Award, and a George Foster Peabody Award.

Smith's work for FRONTLINE has taken him to Afghanistan, China, Comoros, Colombia, Germany, Haiti, India, Iraq, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and Yemen.

Smith has won every major award in television including two duPont Columbia Gold Batons, two George Foster Peabody Awards, and five Emmys. He's also been a three-time recipient of the George Polk Award for Investigative Journalism and a five-time winner of the Writer's Guild Award. Smith is a member of the Overseas Press Club and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Marcela Gaviria is a journalist and documentary filmmaker with RAINmedia in New York City. Over the last 10 years she has produced 20 documentaries for PBS FRONTLINE, including five films on post-war Iraq and four hours on Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Gaviria's work for FRONTLINE has taken her to Afghanistan, Colombia, Haiti, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Oman, Pakistan, the Palestinian Territories, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, and Venezuela.

Over the last decade, Gaviria has earned every major award in broadcast journalism, including, most recently, the 2010 Overseas Press Club's Edward R. Murrow Award for Obama's War and a 2010 George Foster Peabody Award for The Madoff Affair . The Madoff Affair also garnered the 2009 Emmy for Outstanding Documentary on a Business Topic and a 2009 Writer's Guild Award.

Gaviria first came to FRONTLINE in 1994, working with renowned producer William Cran on The Godfather of Cocaine, a film about the drug baron Pablo Escobar . She stayed on in her native Colombia and continued to field produce scores of documentaries for PBS, BBC and the Discovery Channel. In 1997, Gaviria set up the first natural history filmmaking unit in Latin America thanks to a grant from the MacArthur Foundation.

In 1999, Gaviria returned to FRONTLINE to work on the four-part series, Drug Wars . That began a 10-year collaboration with veteran FRONTLINE producer/correspondent, Martin Smith. Together they produced The Quake (2010); Obama's War (2009); The Madoff Affair (2009); Gangs of Iraq (2007); The Storm (2005); Private Warriors (2005); The Choice (2004); Beyond Baghdad (2004); Truth, War and Consequences (2003); Kim's Nuclear Gamble (2002); In Search of Al Qaeda (2002); Looking for Answers (2001); Saudi Time Bomb? (2001); and Medicating Kids (2000).

Those films also received numerous honors including, a duPont-Columbia Gold and Silver Baton, a Peabody, two Emmy's, and multiple Writer's Guild Awards.

Independently, Gaviria has also produced other films for FRONTLINE, including, The War Briefing (2008); The Medicated Child (2008); and two FRONTLINE/Worlds, Inside Hamas (2006) and Iraq: Reporting the War (2005). The War Briefing won the 2009 Emmy for Best Cinematography and an Edward R. Murrow Citation at the Overseas Press Club. The Medicated Child won a Prism Award and a Writer's Guild nomination.

In 2008, Gaviria was awarded the Peter S. McGhee Fellowship award from WGBH, which honors an individual whose work reflects excellence, intelligence, fairness, passion and scholarship.

Gaviria was born in Bogota, Colombia, and obtained her BA from Brown University and her MA from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She lives in New York City.

Ryan Knutson has reported for a broad swath of media, including print, radio and TV. He has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Oregonian and Ghana's The Daily Graphic, and he has also done radio reporting for the NPR affiliate in Portland, Ore., OPB News.

Before joining RAINmedia in the summer of 2010, Ryan wrote for ProPublica, where his stories about the Gulf oil spill appeared in The Washington Post and were featured on CNN, Democracy Now! and WNYC. Ryan is from Portland, Ore., and he graduated from the University of Oregon with an emphasis in both print reporting and documentary filmmaking. In college, he was editor-in-chief of the campus daily and his stories on local police won back-to-back national awards for in-depth reporting.

Carola Mamberto has over eight years of international reporting experience, the last two of which she spent working on high-profile documentary productions, including THE SPILL, a FRONTLINE/ProPublica investigation into BP in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, and Charles Ferguson's Academy Award-winning film INSIDE JOB about the 2008 global financial crisis.

As a documentary student at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Carola produced, directed, reported and edited PIZZO, a short about Sicilians fighting the Mafia that went on to win a student Emmy, among other awards. An edited version of the film aired nationally on PBS' FRONTLINE/World in January 2009. Later that year, Variety Magazine named Carola one of the top 10 student filmmakers in the country.

Raised and educated between Italy, Germany, France and England, Carola started her journalism career at Agence France Presse (AFP) in Nice, France. Before moving to the United States in 2006, she was a reporter for Italian national news wire Adnkronos, covering the Arab World and conflict areas such as Lebanon, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Carola has been working with RAIN since the summer of 2010, and joined the team full-time in 2011.

Timothy Grucza, also known as Groocha, began working with Rain Media in 2005. As cameraman and field producer, he has worked on 11 PBS FRONTLINE documentaries, including "Inside Hamas," "Private Warriors," "Gangs of Iraq," "The Madoff Affair," and "The Quake." In 2009 he was awarded an Emmy for Best Cinematography for his work on "The War Briefing", which he shot in the volatile Korengal Valley of Afghanistan. In 2010, he was nominated for the same Emmy for his work on "Obama's War," filmed in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. That award will be announced next week.

Timothy has also directed and produced several award winning films for French television. His most recent film was "The Last Outpost," about Afghan Army soldiers stationed on the Pakistan border. Timothy cut his teeth in Kosovo back in 1999, and since then has covered conflicts and disaster in Afghanistan, Georgia, Haiti, Iraq, Israel, and Pakistan. After 9 years based in Paris, he recently relocated with his family to New York City.

Christopher Livesay joined RAIN in the fall of 2010 after graduating with honors from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has reported from Italy, Mexico, and across the US for news outlets such as NPR, TheBBC/PRI and The Columbia Journalism Review.

Livesay was born and raised in Arizona where he studied art history and Italian at Arizona State University. In 2001 he was a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar to Antwerp, Belgium. In 2005 he moved to Italy where he worked in the arts and culture field, highlights of which include positions at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the Venice Biennial of Art, and becoming a licensed EU guide of Venice.

Stef Gordon has been the Production Bookkeeper at Rain Media since 2004. With a degree in Theater and ten years spent pursuing a career as a singer-songwriter, handling the finances for small production companies seemed the next logical step. She has worked on dozens of programs for Frontline and American Experience among others. She is trusted with managing the cash flow and budgets for all of Rain's productions as well as serving as a voice of reason around the lunch table.