Michelle Esrick is a filmmaker, activist, actress and poet. Michelle seeks to be of service in her everyday life and is attracted to projects and people that are concerned with making a positive impact in their communities and around the world. Michelle has worked on a number of documentaries about art, music and social change, including two-time Academy Award©-winner Barbara Kopple's film, My Generation, about the three Woodstock Festivals. Michelle has also created and produced such notable events as "Activism With A Sense Of Humor," starring Wavy Gravy, at Theater for the New City in NYC (2001), "Poems Not Fit for the White House" at Lincoln Center, featuring Arthur Miller, Mos Def, Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory (2003), and "Unconventional Heroes: An Evening of Performance to Honor Courageous Resisters," with Steve Earle and Odetta (2004). Michelle and her production crew filmed Wavy Gravy over a period of 10 years (1999 - 2009), collecting never-before-seen footage and creating a story that focuses on Wavy's commitment to making a difference in the world and having fun doing it. The Wavy Gravy Movie: Saint Misbehavin' premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in 2009 and won several awards and much acclaim on the film festival circuit. The Film was released theatrically in December 2010 to rave reviews and has been inspiring audiences all over the country.
In November of 2011 The Wavy Gravy movie will be released on DVD and TV including Showtime. Michelle is currently working on several exciting projects through her company, Ripple Effect Films.

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 is a producer/director, writer, cinematographer and educator. He is currently in post-production on To Be Forever Wild, a feature-length documentary about the power of reconnecting with nature, filmed in New York's Catskill Mountains.

David directed the PBS documentary Small Steps: Creating the High School for Contemporary Arts, which follows the creation of a small school located inside one of New York's most dangerous high schools. The film was produced by two-time Academy Award winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple and is available on PBS Home Video. David coordinated the restoration and DVD release of Barbara Kopple's landmark documentary Harlan County USA. He has collaborated with Ms. Kopple on several nonfiction projects, including Dixie Chicks: Shut Up & Sing, My Generation, The Hamptons, and the Disney Channel special Confident for Life: Kids & Body Image.

Sundance Film Festival, the South by Southwest Film Festival, the Woodstock Film Festival and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, among others. David writes for Documentary magazine, the publication of the International Documentary Association. He teaches Media Arts at the Woodstock Day School in upstate New York. David is a graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

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 Bonnie Raitt, and his voice and compositions have appeared commercially as work for television, radio, and now feature film. 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 relationship with music and musicians. His latest album "Fennario - Songs by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter" is a 12 song tribute to the principle songwriters for the Grateful Dead.
www.emoryjoseph.com
www.myspace.com/fennariocity