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About the Filmmakers 

Director/Executive Producer  

Wendy Sachs

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Wendy Sachs is a documentary film director, Emmy Award-winning network television producer (NBC,CNN,FOX) writer, author and speaker. Wendy co-directed and produced SURGE, a feature documentary about the record number of first-time female candidates who ran, won, and flipped theri red districts to blue in the historic 2018 midterm elections. The film was acquired by Showtime in 2020. Wendy also produced the two-hour documentary Gen Z for the series "My Gen" that is airing on MSNBC on October 27, 2024. She produced  the two-hour documentary Move Fast and Break Things, the Facebook documentary that aired on CNN+ and Vice TV in 2021. Wendy is also a former Capitol Hill press secretary and author of two critically acclaimed books about women and career, "Fearless and Free" and "How She Really Does It.' Wendy has appeared on dozens of radio segments, TV shows and podcasts including NBC's "Today, "MSNBC's "Morning Joe," CNN, FOX and ABC's "Good Morning America."  

Executive Producer  

Debra Messing

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Debra Messing is an Emmy Award-winning actress, producer, and social justice & human rights advocate. She is best known for her Emmy & SAG Award-winning role as “Grace Adler” on NBC’s Emmy Award-winning comedy series “Will & Grace,” and starred in “The Mysteries of Laura,” and “SMASH,” both on NBC. Notable film credits include the award-winning “Searching,” “Along Came Polly,” “The Wedding Date” “Nothing Like The Holidays,” “The Women,” and “The Dark Divide.” Messing has been honored with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Women In Film’s Lucy Award, The Gracie Allen Award, American Comedy Award, among 50 more nominations. Most recently, Messing filmed the Warner Brothers mob drama, “Wise Guys,” opposite Robert De Niro. Messing can be seen in Universal’s feature film, BROS, alongside Billy Eichner. Messing can also be seen in the feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical, “13,” from the producer of “Chicago,” which is currently available for streaming on Netflix.

Editor  

Inbal Lessner

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Inbal B. Lesnner, ACE is an Emmy-nominated and Eddie-winning producer/editor who most recently cut together Sarah Gibson's Stormy (2024), the explosive documentary recounting the scandal that surrounded Stormy Daniels and former president Donald Trump. As lead editor on the project, Inbal combed through hundreds of hours of footage from 2018, helping to reframe the story from Stormy's perspective. Executive-produced by Judd Apatow, Stormy will debut at SXSW on March 8th, and then stream on Peacock beginning March 18th.

Inbal is most well-known for such true crime hits as Starz' Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult (2020) and Netflix's Escaping Twin Flames (2023), both of which she co-created alongside her filmmaking partner Cecilia Peck. As executive producer, showrunner, and editor, Inbal steered both shows towards nominations for Best Edited Documentary (Non-Theatrical) at the ACE Eddie Awards, nabbing a win for the latter. She was previously Eddie-nominated for her work on the "Can We All Get Along" episode of CNN's The Nineties (2017). Her five-year partnership with CNN culminated in a dream collaboration with executive producer Tom Hanks on the "The Golden Age" episode of The Movies (2019).

Editor  

Nimrod Erez

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Nimrod Erez has had a 30 years long career as a TV and film editor. In the past 15 years he served as the in-house documentary film editor and co-producer at Moriah Films, the Academy Award winning documentary film production arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Along with film editing, Nimrod often supervises, designs, and creates the animations, graphics and typography of his projects. A screenplay he wrote placed at the top ten percent of entries at the Nicholl Fellowship, one of the most prestigious screenwriting competition in America.

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