Harriet Hirshorn (Director) is an independent filmmaker and and was recently awarded a pre-production grant from the Centre National de la Cinématographie for a new film on AIDS treatment-access activism in Nigeria.

Her first film on Haiti, The Disappearance of TiSoeur: Haiti after Duvalier won the Golden Spire Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival as well as Juror's Choice of the Black Maria Film Festival.

You may see a trailer of her new project "Whatever the Cost"

Other credits include:

Because it's the year 2000 (2001)

Insomnia (1999)

The Disappearance of TiSoeur: Haiti after Duvalier (1998)

Sodom By the Sea (1990)

You Can't Die from Not Sleeping (1985)

Camera: Portrait of Yinka Jegede Ekpe (2004) for Reebok, Produced by Katherine Linton/Rainlake Films.

Vieques: Worth Every Bit of Struggle (2004) Produced by Mary Patierno

The Most Unknowable Thing (1999) Produced by Mary Patierno

She has produced and edited for In The Life Television, Dyke TV, and News and Feature stories for RAI (Italian Television). She has received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, is a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow and currently lives in Paris, France.

Christine Cynn (Producer) teaches English and Women's Studies at Barnard College in New York City. As a Fulbright scholar, she will be teaching English at the University of Abidjan and working on a video project from 2005-2006 and will return to Barnard College as a Mellon post-doctoral Fellow in 2006-2008.

Hirshorn and Cynn received grants from the Soros Documentary Fund, the Jerome Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts to produce Pote Mak Sonje: The Raboteau Trial.

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