Through her studies in Emerging Markets and Political Science, Sabine Lubbe Bakker (1978, Belgium) discovered what she likes best: telling stories. She took a course called ‘Poldox’ (combining political science and documentary making), during which she made a film about the world of illegal Chinese gambling in Amsterdam. Her passion for the Middle East took her to Damascus to write her thesis titled ‘Brave New Minds’, which dealt with rebellious student movements in Syria. In addition to learning Arabic, organizing debates and writing articles, she made two short films. Nowadays she works as a freelance documentary filmmaker. Shout is her first feature length documentary.

Yehuda acquired his extensive professional experience in television production working as a producer for the “Israel Broadcasting Authority”. Between the years 1977-2005 he was involved in producing a diversified range of genres. He coordinated and produces large scale International Broadcasts such as the Saadat-Carter Summit, the Millennium broadcasts, the World Bible Quiz and The Eurovision song contest. He acted as Chief producer in Dramas such as, “The Lady and the Peddler” and as IBA’s Chief Documentary Department producer he supervised the two prestiges slots “The true story” and “Second glance”. After more then 30 years in public broadcast, Yehuda now owns a private production company which specializes both in independent Drama and Documentary production and supplies production services to local [Channel 10] and International broadcasters [ZDF]. Among his credits are: Gaza Strip Withdrawal, the 2005 elections day broadcast and more.

Ester Gould (1975, Scotland) has lived in the Netherlands since she was ten. She studied Film and Theatre in Amsterdam and New York. Having worked in the theatre, she began to focus on documentary films. She has now been in film for twelve years, including working closely together with renowned filmmaker Heddy Honigmann. She has done research, co-written scenarios and worked on the sets of prize-winning films such as Crazy, Forever and El Olvido. She took a Master’s course in journalism to increase her skills as a researcher. Since 2005 she has been directing documentaries, including 50 cents (2007), Sick of it all (2008) and Starring David (2010). For Sick of it all, a short children’s documentary, she won the IDFA Kids & Docs Script Award. Shout is her first feature length documentary.

Kertsner is an award-winning documentary filmmaker – director, producer and editor. Born in Jerusalem in 1956, married with two daughters, Ronit lives in Tel Aviv Israel. After her military service she was admitted to the Cinema Department at Tel Aviv University where she embarked on a four-year course of study. Upon completion Ronit began working as a professional editor of documentaries and features for TV and other media. Ronit has edited dozens of documentary films over the years. For the last 10 years Ronit has directed and produced 4 documentaries: “The Secret” (Berlin Film Festival 2002, first prize at the international Film Festival in Bordeaux 2003); “I the aforementioned infant” (Haifa film festival 2006); “Menachem and Fred” (cinema for peace award, Berlin 2009); and most recently, “Torn” (Docaviv international film festival).

Liel Leibovitz is a senior writer for Tablet Magazine and an assistant professor of communications at New York University. He is also the author or co-author of four books, including, most recently, The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election, co-written with Todd Gitlin. A native of Tel Aviv, he now lives in Manhattan.

Ibstisam wrote and directed, “Waking Up to a Fatherland,” broadcast on Israel’s Channel 2. In 2003, she wrote and directed the documentary, Paradise Lost, which was supported by the New Cinema Fund, the Tel Aviv Fund, the Makor fund, and the MEDEA project of the European Union. The film won The Best Script award for co-productions at the Spring Doc Festival, The First-Creation Photography Award at the 2003 International Spring Doc Festival, and the Documentary Award at the 2003 Women’s Festival in Rehovot. She then went on to direct the documentaries, The Bridge, Badal – which won the “Spirit of Freedom” award, and The Best Documentary Award in HOTDOCS – A Room in Tel-Aviv, and Three Times Divorced – which won to the First Prize at the “Doc-Aviv” Film Festival Competition.

Dr. Ilan Peleg earned B.A. and M.A. degrees from Tel Aviv University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University. He has been teaching “Israeli Politics, Society & Culture” at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College for 21 years, has been the Charles A. Dana Professor of Social Science at Lafayette College for 37 years, and is an Adjunct Scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC. Dr. Peleg has held appointments as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School Human Rights Program, a Research Fellow at Princeton University, and Fellow-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania, a Skirball Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and an Associate Member at St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford. Dr. Peleg is the author or editor of eight books, including Begin’s Foreign Policy 1977-1983: Israel’s Move to the Right (1987); The Emergence of a Binational Israel: The Second Republic in the Making (1989); Patterns of Censorship Aro

Professor Ella Shohat teaches in the departments of Art & Public Policy and Middle Eastern studies at New York University. She has lectured and published extensively on issues having to do with dislocations and diasporic identities, and is well-known for her work on Arab-Jews and Mizrahi culture, as well as on the representations of Palestinians. She is the author of the groundbreaking Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (1989; New Edition was recently published by from I.B. Tauris). Her award-winning books include: Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices (Duke Univ. Press, 2006), entitled in its Hebrew version as “Zichronot Assurim” (Bimat Kedem, 2001); Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age (MIT 1998); Unthinking Eurocentrism (co-authored with Robert Stam, Routledge, 1994); Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism (Routledge, 2006); Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality and Transnational Media (Rutgers Univ. Press, 2003); and

Dov Waxman is an associate professor of political science at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He specializes in International Relations, Middle East politics, Israeli politics, and Israeli-Palestinian relations. He received his Ph.D. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, where he also received an M.A. in International Relations and International Economics. He has a B.A. degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University. He has been a visiting fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, a visiting scholar at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and a visiting fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He has also worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. He is the author of The Pursuit of Pe

Tamar Zandberg, Tel Aviv Yaffo City Council Member (Meretz). Chair of the committee of Women Rights, Member of Finance Committee and Affordable Housing Committee. Involved in local issues of sustainable planning, affordable housing and rent, bicycle transportation. Active in the Israeli Tent Protest and in the Israeli movement to support Palestinian Statehood. Former Parliamentary Assistant to Member of Knesset Ran Cohen. PhD candidate for Politics and Government in Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, researching issues of spatial planning and human rights; Graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Psychology and Economics) and from Ben Gurion University (Social Psychology); Lecturer in Sapir College, Sederot and in Interdisciplinary Center, Herzelia (IDC); Member of Housing and Transportation expert committee advising the Israeli social protest; Writes regular columns in local newspapers and websites, and Member of broadcast panel in a political radio show on the IDC radio stati