Amie is an accomplished film producer/director. Specializing in film and video for NGO and international development organizations, Amie has more recently forayed into screenwriting, developing stories from her documentary background into narrative feature films. Her first feature-length script is set in present-day Kenya, JUA KALI (HARSH SUN) and was recently selected to participate in the 2007 Film Independent Director’s Lab, with Amie attached as Director, produced by Trish Dolman in Canada, Screen Siren Pictures (Flower and Garnet),  Tracey Nicole Bing, formerly of Warner Independent Pictures (March of the Penguins) with Jim Denault attached as the Cinematographer (Maria Full of Grace, Boys Don't Cry), and the actor Idris Elba attached to play a lead role (The Wire, Daddy's Little Girl, The Reaping, Sometimes in April).

She is presently in production on the feature documentary, AMANI NOMA, A HARD PEACE, which follows the aftermath of the Kenyan post-election violence through the eyes of a teenage girl who was raped and left for dead. The film is co-produced with Kenyan television and the actress Mumbi Kaigwa (Constant Gardner).

Past films include NO SWEAT, (2006) about bad-boy clothing manufacturer American Apparel, which recently premiered at the AFI Film Festival and was broadcast on KQED and Current TV; FALLON, NV: DEADLY OASIS (2004) about a childhood leukemia cluster, an ITVS funded film broadcast on PBS; and UNCOMMON GROUND: FROM LOS ANGELES TO SOUTH AFRICA (1994).  These films have won numerous awards, including the International Documentary David Wolper Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Media Grant, the SONY/Streisand Award for emerging female filmmakers, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Peace Grant, Pioneer Fund, Paul Robeson Fund and the A.F.I. Independent Film and Videomakers Award. She also received a National Arts Council grant to teach in Japan and Singapore, and to show her work.

Amie also directs political television ads for, working for the California Democratic party and political consultant Parke Skelton of SG&A Campaigns.

Prior to her film career, she lived and worked in Kenya as a teacher and health-communications consultant for the Ford Foundation and Care, International and continues to sponsor a street theater group of homeless AIDS orphans in Nairobi.  Amie graduated from Yale University (B.A., English and Theater, 1985); and U.C.L.A (MFA, Film, 1992).

Sarah Feinbloom is an award-winning filmmaker whose work includes documentaries, dramatic narrative, and fundraising videos. She currently works with Bal-Maiden Films in Los Angeles producing films for labor unions, progressive organizations and political campaigns with principal Amie Williams www.balmaidenfilms.com. Sarah received a California Council for the Humanities Grant, The Paul Robeson Grant for Independent Media, and the Pacific Pioneer Fund Award for her 50-minute documentary What Do You Believe? - the religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers www.whatdoyoubelieve.org. What Do You Believe aired on PBS stations WGBH and KCET and has been screened nationally and internationally at venues including the Mill Valley Film Festival, the Toronto Children’s Film Festival, the Religion Today Film Festival in Italy, and at conferences including the National Association of Multicultural Educators the American Academy of Religion. It was voted "One of Ten Best Videos for Young Adults in 2003" by the American Library Association.  The film is being used in high schools and colleges nationwide to teach about religious diversity and comes with an educational guide for teachers. Her other projects include Youth to Youth-a video about violence, which examines racism, rape, war, growing up with violence, and police brutality through young people’s eyes. This 30-minute documentary was featured on National Public Radio, in the Boston Globe, and the School Library Journal. It also has been used in classrooms as a teaching tool. Which Way, Por Favor? - an independent feature film, which she produced in Mexico, is being distributed in video stores by Ardustry Entertainment and was the audience favorite at the San Francisco Indie-Fest and the Ajijic Festival International de Cine. In April 2005 she finished Daughters and Sons - Preventing Child-trafficking in the Golden Triangle www.friendsofthaidaughters.org,  a half hour documentary that she produced, directed and shot. Daughters and Sons is being used to raise money to support the Development and Educational Program for Daughters and Communities in Thailand www.depdc.org, which rescues children before they are trafficked into the sex-industry and other forms of forced labor. Daughters and Sons premiered at the Boston International Film Festival and was featured on NPR’s The World, a co-production of the BBC and WGBH. To date the film has raised over $200,000, and was awarded Best Child Advocacy Short, at the 2006 Artivist Film Festival. Sarah recently completed a comedy with animation called In Search of The Heart of Chocolate www.chocumentary.com, which is just starting to make the festival circuit. Sarah has a B.A. in Political Science from Barnard College, Columbia University and an M.A. in Education from Tufts University. In addition to filmmaking for the past eighteen years, she has worked as a public school teacher and a coordinator of youth programs committed to social justice and cross-cultural understanding with organizations including the American Friends Service Committee and the San Francisco Volunteer Center. She can be reached at: sarahfeinbloom@yahoo.com

Swati Guild is a young filmmaker and artist with a global perspective. Her projects, spanning numerous media, include experimental video and street photography as well as documentary film. Her work dealing with the critical social issues of our day has been used by NGOs and Government bodies around the world to raise money and awareness about issues as diverse as Uganda's high incidence of maternal mortality, the experiences of street children and the 2006 Teacher's Strike in Oaxaca, Mexico. Voices on Violence, her short film on the experience of violence through the eyes of Ugandan children, has aired on Record TV in Africa and her work has been featured in the Montreal World Film Festival. Her collaborative work on clubfoot treatment in Africa is currently being shown throughout Canada by CIDA, the Canadian International Development Agency. Swati holds a B.A. in Sociology and Women's Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.