The Team
GREG REITMAN is the creator and director of the feature documentary, film, "Rooted in Peace." He produced the 2008 Sundance Audience Award winning feature documentary, 'Fields of Fuel', with Josh Tickell, author of 'From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank' and 'Biodiesel America.' He wrote, produced and directed, 'Hollywood's Magical Island - Catalina' which syndicated nationally on PBS. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He received his master's certificate at UCLA in Film & Television, for Writing, Directing, Marketing and Distribution as well as a Masters Certificate at Tel Aviv University for Creative Producing. He is an alumnus of the Hollywood Film Institute, the International Documentary Association, The Travis Directing School, and serves as a director on the National Board of the Green Energy Council.
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Sally Ranney has thirty-years experience in the private and public sectors dedicated to environmental, water and energy policy. She is Co-director of American Renewable Energy Day and Summit held annually at the Aspen Institute, CEO of Stillwater Preservation, LLC, a wetlands mitigation banking company, and President of Rising Wolf International, Inc., a specialized consulting group of which representative clients include Ted Turner, Republic Financial Corporation, the government of Papua New Guinea, and Keysen, Ltd, an oceanographic research company. She founded American Wildlands, co-founded The World Congress on Eco-tourism, purchased by Outside Magazine, and served as President of American Wilderness Adventures eco-tourism company with 90 itineraries worldwide. Policy commissions/committees include President’s Commission on American Outdoors, appointed by President Reagan. Alaska Conservation Representative to President Carter, and Project 88, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, appointed by Senator Tim Wirth. Awards include the Horace Albright Award, US National Park Service, the Meritorious Conservation Award, R.K Mellon Fellowship, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Who’s Who in the West and selection by Al Gore to be one of 1,000 U.S. trainees for his Climate Project. Representative Board affiliations: The Natural Step, Eco-Com, LLC (US/Mexico), RoundRock Partners, LLC, Galllman Africa Conservancy (U.S/Kenya), Grand Canyon Trust, Lighthawk, American Wildlands, Zero Emissions Research Institute (U.S./Switzerland), Project Wild (Canada); Environment, Natural Resource and Agriculture Policy Institute, Colorado State University.
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PHIL SAUERS began his relationship with water as a surfer in California and Hawaii. The relationship deepened in 1957, when, lost at sea for 71 days on a small 38 foot sailboat in the North Pacific Ocean, he experienced true and extreme thirst. This evolved into a genuine concern over the importance of the availability of fresh drinking water for everybody. In February of 1999, he launched the non-profit World Water Rescue Foundation which has worked closely with the United Nations and environmental organizations to preserve and protect the world’s precious freshwater resources. The WWRF.org website serves as a comprehensive one-stop source for water-related research, interest, and news; and is considered the hallmark of water repositories. Currently, he is working as facilitator of the “Water Not Weapons” campaign with Pete Seeger, combining the importance of peace with that of water.
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DANE LAWING Award-winning cinematographer Dane Lawing has worked both above and below water worldwide. An early advocate of HD, his narrative film for Academy-Award winner Jim Taylor, "The Lost Cause", was one of the first shot with the Thomson Viper and won Best Cinematography at the 2006 HDFest. In 2007 he took a multi-camera HD documentary production to Iraq for 105 days. The resulting film, "Quest for Honor" was a Grand Jury Prize Nominee at the 2008 Sundance Festival. Amongst his other credits are: "Guest of Cindy Sherman', "The Street Stops Here", "Against the Current" (underwater) and "The Lady in Question is Charles Busch." He was Director of Photography for the 2009 E! series, "Running in Heels" and has lensed for Ralph Lauren Polo, Nickelodeon, PBS, MTV, GMAC, Old Navy, Microsoft, GlaxoSmithKline, and Oxygen. His extensive television experience includes work on "Strange Love", "House of Style", "What Not To Wear", "Chapelle's Show" and "Croc's Rule: Animal Planet's Tribute to Steve Irwin".
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RICHARD HOROWITZ is internationally known for creating a unique sonic language that fuses together his roots in classical, jazz and electronic music with the intensity of the trance music he first experienced in Morocco at the age of nineteen. He plays keyboards, percussion and the ney, an obliquely blown reed flute - one of the oldest and most human sounding wind instruments. Since the late sixties his compositions have been inspired by the ritual drama of ancient music and by the shadings, motifs and overtones of instruments and voices from the oldest cultures. He has worked with tribal, classical and popular musicians from North Africa to Indonesia and has collaborated with Sussan Deyhim since the early eighties. His tracks are translations that morph ancient sources into the resonance of full spectrum surround-sound.
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Born and raised in Tel-Aviv, URI APPENZELLER is an Israeli filmmaker who began making short films at the Tel-Aviv Performing Arts High School in the early 90s. He joined the Israeli Air-Force Film Unit as Director and Editor of educational and historical documentaries and later graduated with Honors in Film & TV and Political Science from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Uri came back to settle in Israel in 2001 after completing "Shaheed," a short film about religious fundamentalism and suicide bombers, released weeks before 9/11. He is currently living in Tel-Aviv, writing, producing and directing films, videos, documentaries and TV programs of all genres. His work includes: "Shaheed" (drama, short film), "The Jaffa Project" (feature documentary), "Behind the Stage" (music documentary / TV show), and the "The Yacht" (comedy / TV documentary series).
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JESSICA BERMAN-BOGDAN has worked as a freelance professional film, video, and photo researcher for over twenty years and has extensive knowledge of all major network, news reel and specialized archives throughout the world. Working on features, documentaries, entertainment specials, commercials and industrials, her expertise covers all areas of acquisition management and rights and clearances. She has worked with many award-winning documentary directors and has had experience with the needs of both small independent production as well as large multi-part projects.
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