John Tintori has edited over a dozen feature length films, including EIGHT MEN OUT directed by John Sayles’ TRUE LOVE’ and DOGFIGHT, directed by Nancy Savoca, and MISTER WONDERFUL, directed by Anthony Minghella. In addition to his feature credits, John has edited numerous TV commercials, music videos, and short films, including TREVOR, which won the Oscar for Best Dramatic Short Film in 1995. He co-directed, with Mary Cybulski, HELLCAB, an independent feature film starring John Cusack, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, and Michael Shannon. John is a member of the Director's Guild of America, the Writer's Guild of America, and the IATSE. He has been a member of the Tisch/Kanbar faculty since 1997. John served as Chair of the Graduate Film Program at NYU from 2005 to 2014, and was Chair of the Graduate Film Program at TischAsia in Singapore during its inaugural year. Joining forces with his colleagues in the Stern School of Business, John and Professor Sam Craig created the Dual MBA/MFA Degree in Producing, which accepted its first class in September 2008. John currently serves as the Director of the NYU Cinema Research Institute.

Gail Segal is a writer, filmmaker and teacher.  Her most recent film work includes Filigrane, a narrative short set in the Empty Quarter of the U.A.E, and a documentary, Meanwhile in Turkey about the agency of women artisans in Turkey.   She is currently developing a narrative feature based on her original screenplay, Lila Rose, about a family in the farm country of Southwest Georgia.  She is an Associate Arts Professor in the Graduate Division of Film at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Based in Brooklyn, Colin is a film industry analyst involved in several separate ventures designed to transform how cinema conducts its global business.

As Editorial Director for Slated, the private online marketplace for film investing and industry introductions, Colin writes the widely circulated “Filmonomics” blog and has hosted monthly film investor discussion forums in both New York and Los Angeles.

As a Faculty Committee member of New York University’s Cinema Research Institute, Colin helps award annual fellowships to new models of financing, producing, marketing and distributing media and entertainment. He also incubates some of those disruptive ideas as part of "The Future of Film" class he teaches to graduate students of NYU Tisch.

A longstanding consultant for the Dubai International Film Festival, Colin recently became a Managing Partner in MAD Solutions, the innovative pan-Arab distribution outfit that is building the first independent film studio to serve the entire Arab-speaking region.

Prior to joining Slated, Colin was an award-winning editor and journalist most closely identified with the trade paper “Screen International”, where he worked for more than two decades. As a film critic, he has served on numerous film festival juries including that of the Sundance Film Festival - where he helped judge the World Cinema Dramatic Competition in 2009.

Peggy Rajski is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker who’s produced over a dozen feature films, directed an Oscar winning short, and garnered more than 40 major award nominations along the way.

Peggy began her feature film producing career with writer/director John Sayles, and produced three pictures with him: the cult classic THE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET and the highly lauded historical dramas MATEWAN and EIGHT MEN OUT. She went on to work with Martin Scorcese and director Stephen Frears on THE GRIFTERS, nominated for four Academy Awards and winner of the Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature.

She produced Jodie Foster’s directorial debut LITTLE MAN TATE and her second film, HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS starring Holly Hunter, Anne Bancroft and Robert Downey Jr.  Other features include writer/director Alan Ball’s TOWELHEAD, the film adaptation of BEE SEASON with Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche, USED PEOPLE starring film legends Shirley Maclaine and Marcello Mastroianni, and the indie comedy GRASSROOTS.

Working in documentary as well as feature films, Peggy won the Producers Guild of America ‘Producers Challenge’ Award for Best Documentary on ONE BRIDGE TO THE NEXT and recently produced writer/director Bob Balaban’s segment for Morgan Spurlock’s WE THE ECONOMY series funded by Paul Allen.

Her directorial debut TREVOR, a poignant comedy about a Diana-Ross-and-musical-theater-obsessed 13 year old boy whose world is turned upside down when word spreads at school that he’s gay, won the 1994 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. TREVOR led to the creation of The Trevor Project, a pioneering nonprofit organization she founded that is the country’s leading provider of life-saving services for l/g/b/t/q youth.  TREVOR is currently being adapted for the stage, and in 2014, the Academy’s Short Film and Animation Branch recognized her as a Live Action Icon.

Other directorial outings include the television series ER and the second-unit photography on several of the feature films she produced.

A longstanding member of the AMPAS Producers Branch, Peggy has served on the Academy’s Institutional and Scholar Grants Committee, the ‘Best Short Film’ nominating committee and the invitation-only ‘Best Foreign Film’ Shortlist Selection Committee. She also serves as a judge for the Academy’s Nicholls Fellowship Screenwriting Awards, the premiere competition for emerging screenwriting talent.

Peggy taught numerous workshops on producing for Sundance. AFI and the Motion Picture Association. She served on the Board of Directors for IFP/West for a decade, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Trevor Project.  She received the Muse Award for Outstanding Vision and Achievement in Film from NY Women in Film and TV, and received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Wisconsin in 2014.  

Peggy currently resides in New York City and is happily married to Paul Colin.  

Contact:  pr@peggyrajskiprods.com

Carol Dysinger recently completed a feature length documentary "Camp Victory, Afghanistan". It premiered in competition at South By South West 2010, played at the Museum of Modern Art Doc Fortnight and the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Funded by Sundance Doc Fund and Corporation for Public Broadcasting, it will be on Public Television in the late summer and fall.

Prior to directing docs, Prof. Dysinger edited many documentaries and features, including "DEADLINE" for Big Mouth Productions (Sundance, and NBC), RAIN for Lola Films, M.Scorsese Executive Producer (Sundance, Venice International) SANTITOS for Springall Pix, John Sayles Exec (Sundance, Guadalajara, San Sebastian) and PUNK (Warners) which was a finalist for a national Emmy.

As a screenwriter in Los Angeles she co-wrote several scripts for Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox and Sam Goldwyn Productions, and A CHRISTMAS STAR with Fred Gwyn and Ed Asner for Disney. She wrote several independent features BURNTOWN for HBO Independent, and FAT GIRLS FROM HELL for Sheila Mclaughlin. Her short films screened widely and won many awards, including the Student Academy Award for Best Dramatic, the Hugo Award, and various others national and international. She is the recipient of the David Payne Carter award for excellence in teaching.

In a 30 year career, Peter Newman has produced over thirty films. They include Wayne Wang’s SMOKE and BLUE IN THE FACE, John Sayles’ THE SECRET OF ROAN INISH, Spalding Gray’s SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA; and Nancy Savoca’s DOGFIGHT and HOUSEHOLD SAINTS. Peter Newman Productions have received a total of 21 nominations for the Spirit Awards-the leading honor in American Independent Film.

His films have played in competition at the Berlin, Cannes, Sundance, Toronto, Telluride, and Venice Film Festivals, where they have won numerous awards.

In 2005, he produced Noah Baumbach’s THE SQUID AND THE WHALE, which won the Best Writing and Directing Awards at that year’s Sundance Film Festival. THE SQUID AND THE WHALE which stars Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney, was a co- production with Wes Anderson’s American Empirical Pictures. It was nominated for six Spirit Awards, including Best Picture; three Golden Globes, including Best Film - Musical or Comedy; and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

Among the other filmmakers that Mr. Newman has collaborated with, are Robert Altman, Jay Presson Allen, David Anspaugh, Paul Auster, Jonathan Demme, and two-time Academy Award winning screenwriter Horton Foote.

Mr. Newman has been a featured speaker at the Sundance Institute’s Producers Conference in 1991 and 2005; as well as appearing on numerous film festival panels, including Cannes and New York. Additionally, he has lectured on the movie business at Harvard Business School, Yale, Columbia, and New York University.

He joined New York University as an adjunct professor in the Graduate Film program at Tisch, and the Graduate MBA program at Stern.

In August of 2008, Peter Newman was appointed the Head of the joint MFA/MBA Dual Degree Graduate program at NYU. It is the first program of its kind in the nation.

Mr. Newman is a member of the ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES, the PRODUCER’S GUILD OF AMERICA, as well as the BRITISH ACADEMY OF TELEVISION AND VIDEO ARTS.

He is currently preparing a film based on the life of Janis Joplin. Newman is a graduate of Northwestern University, and lives in New York with his wife, Antonia Dauphin, and three children.