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DIRECTOR / PRODUCER: Jennifer Karady is an award-winning artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her nationally and internationally recognized project, Soldiers' Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan, has been exhibited widely, including at the Palm Springs Art Museum, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the University of Michigan, Berman Museum of Art, Harn Museum of Art, Ringling Museum of Art, SF Camerawork, University of Denver and CEPA Gallery. Her work was featured on PBS NewsHour, in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Polka, on National Public Radio, reviewed in Frieze, and published in books such as Suffering from Realness, Art and Agenda, Out of Rubble, and Bending the Frame. Public collections include San Francisco MOMA, The Albright Knox Gallery, Palm Springs Art Museum, Smith College Museum of Art, and the Harn Museum of Art. Karady’s numerous residencies and awards include the Witt Residency at the University of Michigan, Yaddo, MacDowell, The Headlands, Blue Mountain Center, Getty Creative Images Grant, and grants from the Compton Foundation and New York State Council for the Arts. She was awarded the 2017 Francis Greenburger Fellowship for Mitigating Ethnic and Religious Conflict at Art Omi. 

Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan: The Artist’s Process is Karady’s first documentary film.

CO-PRODUCER / EDITOR: Mary Ann Toman is an accomplished documentary and television editor. Credits include Art21’s Peabody Award-winning documentary William Kentridge: Anything is Possible as well as numerous projects for public television. Her documentary, The Female Offender, was screened internationally including New Directors/New Films and the Leipzig Documentary Festival.

CO-PRODUCER / CAMERAPERSON: Joey Forsythe

CAMERAPERSON: Anton Seim is a filmmaker and cinematographer. His work includes commercials and the recent, theatrically released documentary film, No Safe Spaces. His film More Than It Is, won Best Short Film at the Lake Arrowhead Film Festival. Upcoming projects include a feature documentary on the 1858 Lincoln–Douglas debates.

CAMERAPERSON: Glen Mordeci is an award-winning cinematographer who has lensed over 700 productions in 17 countries across 5 continents. In addition to televison commercials, Glen has helmed long-and-short form content, corporate videos, documentaries, reality television shows, food competition shows, branding and sales videos and still images for a vast array of clients. He has worked with a diversity of talent including celebrities, musicians, professional athletes, CEOs and a U.S. President.

FUNDING for the film and photograph have been generously provided by the Compton Foundation.