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Ben Crosbie is an award-winning documentary film producer whose work has been broadcast nationally on PBS. He co-directed the Emmy Award-winning Fate of a Salesman, which aired in 2014 on the PBS series America Reframed, and won awards at the Annapolis and Black Maria film festivals. His previous film, Keeping the Kibbutz, aired in 2012 on PBS WORLD and played at the Amsterdam Jewish Historical Museum. Crosbie is the cofounder of Eidolon Films, an innovative DC-based production company that produces documentary-style videos for nonprofits. He’s a two-time recipient of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship, and was named “Filmmaker of the Month” by the DC Film Office. His still photography has been featured in the Washington, DC group show “Exposed” for three out of the last five years, as well as being highlighted in local arts publications. Crosbie is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied psychology and studio art.

Tessa Moran, co-founder of DC-based Eidolon Films, is an Emmy-winning director and producer of independent broadcast documentaries and videos for nonprofit organizations. Moran is a 2015 BAVC National Media Maker Fellow as well as a DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities 2015 Artist Fellow. She directed Fate of a Salesman, which aired nationally on the PBS series America Reframed in 2014, won a 2013 Capital Emmy, the Audience Award at the Annapolis Film Festival and the Juror’s Choice Award at the Black Maria Film Festival. Her previous film, Keeping the Kibbutz, aired on PBS WORLD in 2012 and led an ambitious screening series throughout museums, JCCs, synagogues, and small theaters in the US and Europe. Moran has a background in journalism, having covered economics at Thomson Reuters before turning to film. She’s a graduate of Georgetown University with a BA in American Studies and English.