Director/DP/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 – where her family managed a Native American historical site for 20 years. 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.
Production Assistant Danielle Eisenman is a new filmmaker who has made two documentary projects so far—one about a countercultural communication practice called “circling” and another about an artist and entrepreneur who sells slime on the internet. She is currently working on a portrait of a regenerative farm rooted in Jewish spirituality. Danielle is finishing up her senior year at Harvard College where she studies psychology. In addition to filmmaking, Danielle loves working with kids at summer camp and dabbling in a variety of arts and crafts. She is originally from New York City.
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.
Composer Jorrit Dijkstra spent his formative years in Amsterdam’s vibrant improvisation community playing jazz, free improvisation, and world music. Since moving to the United States in 2002, Dijkstra has deepened his affinity with the experimental forces of American music. Dijkstra's recent projects include The Whammies, a Steve Lacy repertoire band; the improvising quartet Bolt; Matchbox, a quartet collaboration with Pandelis Karayorgis; an electro-acoustic duo with New York drummer/composer John Hollenbeck; and his solo saxophone project incorporating an array of analog electronics.
Dijkstra composes for his own groups and on commission for other ensembles, films, and theatre projects. He is co-founder of Driff Records and teaches at Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory.