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Katia Maguire recently produced Participant Media’s Kingdom of Shadows (SXSW, Full Frame, DocNYC, IDFA 2015), a documentary about the US/Mexico drug war that aired on PBS’s POV September, 2016. She also produced The Graduates/Los Graduados, a bilingual series about Latino high school students that premiered on PBS’ Independent Lens in 2013. Previously she was senior associate producer on Women, War & Peace, a five-part PBS series about women and modern conflict, and co-producer on Quest for Honor, a documentary about violence against women in Iraq that was short-listed for the 2010 Academy Award and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

April Hayes is a New York-based documentary director, producer, cinematographer and editor. Her most recent project as a producer is a forthcoming feature documentary directed by five-time Academy Award-nominated director/writer David O. Russell, and she previously worked as Supervising Producer on a feature documentary directed by Martin Scorsese, airing on HBO, about the music industry and cultural landscape of the 1970s. April directed and shot Respond & Rebuild, a short documentary about Occupy’s post-Hurricane Sandy relief efforts in the Rockaways that was featured on Democracy Now! in 2013, and with Katia Maguire, co-directed the short documentary God is a Garden (2015), about an order of environmentalist nuns. For seven years, April was archivist to Bob Dylan, and the in-house producer for his film and video projects.