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, Entangled Minds, 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.
Consulting Editor Cecilia Préstamo is an award-winning documentary editor with extensive experience in vérité filmmaking. A bilingual Cuban-born exile, she currently works as a freelance editor and story and editing consultant. As a former staff editor for WORLD Channel at GBH in Boston, she co-edited Director Yoruba Richen's The Cost of Inheritance, a PBS|World production that premiered at Doc NYC, and Fannie Lou Hamer’s America, alongside Director Joy Elaine Davenport. This profile of the civil rights icon, produced by Hamer’s niece Monica Land, was awarded Best TV Feature Documentary or Mini-Series at the 38th IDA Documentary Awards. Her training as a classical musician informs her role as a sound designer and music editor for her projects, including the feature documentary Dreams of Chonta, about an undocumented Afro-Colombian musician’s battle to survive New York’s underground Latin American music scene. Cecilia is currently editing a feature documenting the effects of environmental injustice in the immigrant city of Chelsea, MA.