In his 40 years producing and reporting, 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 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to the inside story of the global financial meltdown. Smith has often been ahead of the news curve. He was among the first journalists to investigate Col. Oliver North’s clandestine Contra arms network and one of the first western reporters to investigate the emergence of Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda network. Smith has won every major award in television including […]
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Marcela Gaviria is a journalist and filmmaker with Rain Media in New York City. Over the past two decades she has produced over 40 hours of programming for FRONTLINE (PBS), covering the rise of Al Qaeda, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the culture of risk taking on Wall Street, America’s heroin epidemic, and the crackdown on undocumented immigrants under the Trump Administration. Gaviria has earned every award in broadcast journalism multiple times, including seven Emmys, three Peabody’s, two Dupont Columbia Gold batons and two silver batons, four Writers Guild Awards, three Overseas Press Club Awards, a Robert F. Kennedy […]
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Hannes Hosp is a documentary filmmaker and editor based in New York City. He started his filmmaking career at Barbara Kopple’s Cabin Creek Films as an intern and associate producer where he worked on films about Syrian and Iraqi refugees and the Iranian hostage crisis. Hannes went on to work at 2over10 Media as an editor and cameraperson for PBS Frontline’s Right to Fail which won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary in 2020. At Rain Media, Hannes edited The Crown Prince, a two hour documentary special for PBS Frontline on repression and reform in Saudi Arabia, […]
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Scott Anger is a three-time Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker, photographer and journalist focused on stories about human rights, food security and the natural environment. Assignments have taken him to more than 50 countries over the past 30 years. Much of his work examines the implications of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Scott began his career as an independent photojournalist working on assignment for publications such as TIME, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, National Geographic Traveller, US News & World Report, The Washington Post, The Associated Press and The Fresno Bee. Along with his photography he produced audio […]
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