P-Star Rising

As a graduate of UCLA, Gabriel Noble founded and served as artistic director of Equal Opportunity Productions, an arts outreach organization that uses arts education to empower youth in Los Angeles, Cuba, and South Africa. Gabriel was assistant director on the narrative film On the Outs, which was nominated for an IFP Indie Spirit Award and a Gotham Award, and which won the Grand Prize at the Slamdance Festival. He produced Death of Two Sons, a political, spiritual, and personal exploration of the death of Amadou Diallo, which was executive produced by HBO. Gabriel’s directorial debut was the feature documentary Autumn’s Eyes, a story of a teenage mother sentenced to prison that is told from the perspective of her 3-year-old daughter. He has since served as director/producer on a feature documentary for MTV News and Docs, I Won’t Love You to Death, and as supervising field producer for CNBC’s talk show dLife, for five seasons. In addition to working as a director, producer and cinematographer for film and television, Gabriel also teaches film for the Pearson Foundation. Gabriel is in development as a writer/producer for a feature fiction film, set for production in the summer of 2010.

Marjan Tehrani is an independent director and producer from Berkeley, California. She founded the production company Tru Films and has directed and produced Her Israel, which premiered on the Sundance Channel in 2004. She also produced P-Star Rising, a feature documentary that follows a 13-year-old female rap star as she fulfills her father's deferred dreams of making it in the music business. Beyond her independent work, Tehrani has produced several original series for television, including dLIFE TV on CNBC and the Emmy-nominated After School on PBS, which featured celebrity alumni such as Harvey Keitel and Tim Robbins returning to their urban high schools as role models. Through Tru Films, Tehrani is dedicated to promoting dialogue between cultures, sharing the intricate and subtle aspects of identity, and capturing the transformative moments of the human experience with both humor and integrity.