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has covered politics, war, high finance
and the offshore industry in the course of a threedecade career. In 2011, while an investigative
reporter with the nonprofit ProPublica, Bernstein and a
colleague won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
for coverage of Wall Street in the lead up to the
financial crisis. More recently, he worked with
ICIJ.org on the 2016 project that became known as the
Panama Papers.
is the director of BETTING ON ZERO (2016)
which premiered in the World Doc Competition at
the Tribeca Film Festival where it received a special
jury mention for investigative work. Braun’s film
DARFUR NOW won the NAACP Image Award for best
documentary of 2007 and was named one of 2007’s
top five documentaries by the National Board of
Review. Braun’s an Associate Professor in Writing for
the Screen and Television at USC’s School of Cinematic
Arts where he holds the Joseph Campbell Endowed
Chair in Cinematic Ethics.
is the Washington bureau chief of
The New York Times. Her career at the The Times also
includes stints at the City Hall bureau chief in New
York city, White House correspondent and Pentagon
correspondent. She also covered Sen. John McCain’s
2008 presidential campaign. She is the author of
several books.
is a filmmaker, producer, and
photojournalist whose work explores the intersections
of race, religion and surveillance in the post 9/11
world. She is best known for (T)ERROR, the first
film to portray an active FBI counterterrorism sting
operation, that won the 2015 Sundance Film Festival
Special Jury Prize for Breakout First Feature and the
2015 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Grand
Jury Prize. She is currently a Women in Film Fellow at
the Sundance Institute, and a documentary filmmaking
fellow at the Investigative Fund.
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