Michelle Esrick is a filmmaker, actress, activist and poet. Michelle has worked on a number of documentaries about art, music and social change. Projects she has worked on include My Generation, Barbara Kopple's film about the three Woodstock Festivals and The Highway Men, starring Willie Nelson, Chris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash.
Esrick has produced such notable events as "Activism With A Sense Of Humor" at Theater for the New City in NYC (2001), "Poems Not Fit for the White House" at Lincoln Center, including Arthur Miller, Mos Def, and Andre Gregory (2003), and "Unconventional Heroes: An Evening of Performance to Honor Courageous Resisters" including Steve Earle and Odetta (2004).
For the past eight years, beginning at Woodstock 99', Michelle has documented the life of Wavy Gravy.

DA (Donn Alan) Pennebaker is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of cinema verité filmmaking. In 1959, he joined with other filmmakers to produce the highly acclaimed and revolutionary "Living Camera" series of documentaries and developed one of the first fully portable 16mm synchronized camera and sound recording systems, making possible the revolutionary cinema verité movement.
In the 60s, Pennebaker’s portrait of Bob Dylan, Don’t Look Back (1967) broke all box office records for documentaries, and Monterey Pop (1967), starring Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, were two of the earliest films using real-life drama to have a successful theatrical distribution.
Since 1977, Pennebaker has partnered with Chris Hegedus on a host of acclaimed films including The Energy War, Town Bloody Hall, Delorean, Moon Over Broadway, and Startup.com. The team received the D.W. Griffith Award for Best Documentary of the Year and an Academy Award® nomination for their 1994 Clinton campaign film The War Room featuring James Carville and George Stephanopoulos. Most recently they co-directed with Nick Doob Elaine Stritch at Liberty which won two Primetime Emmy® Awards. Music-related films they have made together include The Music Tells You (about Branford Marsalis), Open Hand (about Suzanne Vega), Depeche Mode 101, Keine Zeit, Searching for Jimi Hendrix, Down from the Mountain, and Only the Strong Survive. Pennebaker is the producer for Hegedus and Doob’s feature film Al Franken: God Spoke about the pugnacious political satirist Al Franken.
He is the recipient of numerous awards including career awards from the International Documentary, Full Frame Documentary, and Hot Doc Documentary festivals.

David Becker recently completed producing and directing the feature-length documentary Small Steps, which follows the creation and first year of the High School for Contemporary Arts, a new small school located inside one of New York’s most dangerous high schools. The film is produced by two-time Academy Award winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple.
Becker coordinated the recent restoration and re-release of Barbara Kopple’s landmark documentary Harlan County USA, including a Sundance premiere, theatrical release, Criterion Collection DVD bonus features and soundtrack on Rounder Records. He has collaborated with Ms. Kopple on several nonfiction projects, including Shut Up and Sing, My Generation, I Married…, The Hamptons, and Confident for Life: Kids and Body Image.
Becker created and produces the video podcast documentary series Magnetic Baby. The series follows Brooklyn-based rock band Semi Precious Weapons as they navigate the rapidly changing record industry.
He has also created short films for organizations such as Vital Voices, People for the American Way, the Soho Partnership, the Ray of Light Foundation at Sachi & Sachi, the Union Square Hospitality Group and Hal Jackson’s Talented Teens.

Daniel B. Gold won the 2002 Sundance “Excellence in Cinematography Award” for his work on Blue Vinyl, which he both co-directed, co-produced. That film also garnered him two Emmy Nominations: one for Research, and one for Best Documentary. In 2002, Blue Vinyl was broadcast on HBO’s America Undercover.
Gold Co-directed, Produced, and Photographed Everything’s Cool, a new film which was an official entry in the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and winner of the Audience Award at the Eckerd Film Festival. Gold’s work as DP will also be featured in several new documentaries during 2007, including Coma, a 90-minute Moxie Firecracker special on HBO; New Orleans, an Insignia Films two-hour PBS special American Experience; and a theatrical release of Toots Shore: Bigger Than Life, which premiered at Tribecca film festival in 2006.
Recent broadcast credits as DP include The Nazi Officer’s Wife (A&E Special), Breaking the Violence (Lifetime Special), and Colonial House (sequel to the PBS series Frontier House. Prior to concentrating on feature documentaries, Gold’s camerawork was frequently seen on Saturday Night Live, Dateline NBC, and the Hallmark Channel.

Emory Joseph has had a successful and diverse 25 year career in music. His songs have been recorded by artists such as Bonnie Raitt, and his voice and compositions have appeared commercially as work for television, radio, and multi-media production. He brings a musicologist's understanding of regional American and World music, and the ability to write and produce recordings in a wide range of styles and colors.
A close friend of Wavy Gravy, he has a unique perspective on the complexity of the subject's intimate lifetime spent with music and musicians.