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David Osit is a documentary film director, editor, and composer. Osit’s first feature documentary film, Building Babel, which he produced, directed, shot, edited, and composed, was a recipient of ITVS Open Call funding, broadcast as the series premiere of PBS America Reframed in 2013, and played at film festivals worldwide, including True/False and DocNYC. Osit was co-producer, composer, and sound recorder on Where Heaven Meets Hell (IDFA, HotDocs), which broadcast on the WORLD Channel’s Global Voices in 2013. Osit is an alumnus of the Tribeca Film Institute’s All Access Program and the True/False Swami program. He received his bachelorʼs degree at the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan, and studied Refugee Law at the American University of Cairo. Osit received his MFA in Social Documentary Film from the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Malika Zouhali-Worrall is an award-winning filmmaker of British/Moroccan origin. She is the co-director and producer of Call Me Kuchu (2012), a documentary that depicts the last year in the life of the first openly gay man in Uganda, David Kato. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Teddy Award for Best Documentary and the Cinema Fairbindet Prize. It has since won 18 more awards — including Best International Feature at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival — and has been theatrically distributed in Canada, Germany, the UK, and the US, and released on iTunes, Amazon, and DVD. Malika is a Chaz & Roger Ebert Directing Fellow and an alumnus of the Tribeca Film Institute’s All Access program, the Film Independent Documentary Lab and the Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. In 2012, Filmmaker Magazine named Malika one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Her journalism work has been published in The Financial Times, and she has reported for CNN.com from India, Uganda, China, and the United States. Malika holds an M.A. in International Affairs from the Paris Institute of Political Studies, and she is a graduate of Cambridge University. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, journalist Andy Greenberg.