On a Knife Edge

Jeremy Williams is an award-winning producer/director (BAFTA, One World Media Award) who has worked in broadcast television for twenty years. Williams has produced and directed across a wide range from news and current affairs, observational documentaries and history, to factual entertainment and short drama. Williams has been visiting Pine Ridge for over a decade and On a Knife Edge is his second film there. Previously he produced BBC Storyville’s Ghosts of the 7th Cavalry filmed on the Pine Ridge and the Rosebud Reservation, both in South Dakota.

Eli Cane runs Normal Life Pictures, a New York-based production company. He produced The Market Maker for WNET/Wide Angle in 2009, which aired nationally on PBS and was selected for the Good Pitch at Silverdocs. He recently produced a feature-length documentary for the Why Poverty? series entitled Land Rush, about agricultural land grabs in Mali and the future of food sovereignty. The film screened in both the UK Parliament and the US Capitol Building. The Why Poverty? series was a co-production between ITVS and the BBC and over a dozen other broadcasters, and when it aired in December 2012 it was seen by over 800 million viewers worldwide. The film won a Peabody Award in 2013. Prior to working in documentary film, Eli worked for seven years as senior production manager at Nonesuch Records. He maintains close ties to the music industry, and has collaborated on dozens of projects with Nonesuch Records, Sony Masterworks, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Red Hot Organization to create short films about music and musicians. In addition, he regularly produces episodes of the PBS show Live from the Artist’s Den.