Director/Producer/Editor Julie Mallozzi is a documentary filmmaker whose work explores the transformative power of traditional cultural practices in the contemporary world. Her films have won awards at festivals around the world and screen in museums, universities, and on public television.
Mallozzi also collaborates with other filmmakers as an editor, story consultant, and producer and occasionally creates media for non-profit organizations.
Mallozzi grew up with a Chinese-American mother and an Italian-American father in rural Ohio. She received her BA from Harvard University and her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. Mallozzi has taught at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston University, Rhode Island School of Design, and Harvard University, where she is currently Administrative Director of the Film Study Center.
Producer Emily Abi-Kheirs is a documentary programmer and producer based in the Greater Boston area. Currently, she is the Programming Manager at GBH, a renowned public broadcaster and producer of PBS content, and Program Director at Salem Film Fest, a filmmaker-friendly, documentary film festival in Massachusetts. They are currently producing their first feature-length film, Unconscious Medicine (working title) with director Julie Mallozzi. In 2023, Emily programmed the 2023 FNYC Flaherty Seminar MAKA: Many Eyed Vessel in collaboration with a collective of curators. She has been recognized as a documentary industry leader by Rockwood Institute (2024) and DOC NYC (2022).
Director of Photography Thomas Danielczik is a Boston-based cameraman whose narrative and documentary work has appeared on numerous network and cable TV channels including History, Discovery, National Geographic, PBS, A&E, ABC, AMC, MSNBC, and TLC, as well as overseas on BBC, ITV, ARTE, Deutsche Welle, NDR, ZDF, and ORF. His additional credits also include pieces for major corporations and nonprofits, music videos, and PSAs, as well as award-winning college capital campaign and admission videos. A native of Germany, Danielczik is bilingual in English and German.
Editor Shondra Burke's credits include main editor of Errol Morris's award-winning documentary Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control and all episodes of his First Person series, which aired on Bravo. In addition to collaborating with Mallozzi on many documentaries and short videos, Burke edited Jocelyn Glatzer's The Flute Player, about a Cambodian musician's life during Cambodia's Khmer Rogue period; I Can’t Breathe, a feature documentary for MTV directed by Pete Favat of Arnold Worlwide; and Tom Curran's Adrift, a personal documentary that aired on PBS.
Burke also works as a commercial editor for clients including Ford, Sony, City Year, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston Globe, Marshall Fields, and Stride Rite. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.