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Sixth Annual Festival

05:51 min
Documentary
Director: Bent Jorgen Perlmutt, Nelson Walker III and Louis Abelman
Producer: Bent Jorgen Perlmutt, Nelson Walker III and Louis Abelman

Winner of the Global Health Award
Sponsored by Daniel B. and Florence E. Green Foundation

FILMMAKER BIOS

Louis Abelman, Director and Producer

Louis Abelman is a freelance writer living in New York. This is his first film. After attending Brown University where he majored in African History, he worked for the International Herald Tribune as an editorial assistant, where he later wrote an editorial about the situation in Goma, DRC. He currently works as a news assistant at the New York Times.

Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Director and Producer

Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt holds a BA in English Literature from Brown University and will receive his MFA in Film from Columbia University next fall. He served as the co-producer of Control Room (Magnolia Pictures, 2004). Bent-Jorgen has served as an editor for various campaign videos and commercials, including The Campaign for Global Leadership and Mitsubishi. He currently works with WITNESS, an NGO which partners with human rights defenders, training them to use video to document abuse and create change. Recently he trained a human rights group in Uganda to make a film about refugee camps there. Bent-Jorgen will teach a course on documentary filmmaking at Columbia University next spring.

Nelson Walker III, Director and Producer

Nelson Walker III holds a BA in American Civilization from Brown University. He began his career as a writer, penning documentaries for Discovery Channel, History Channel, and PBS’ NOVA. Nelson’s directorial debut, iThemba|Hope, aired on Sundance Channel in February of 2005. Nelson works regularly as a cinematographer for renowned documentary film company, Maysles Films. Notable projects he has contributed to include The Gates and Aristide in Africa, a portrait of Haiti’s president in exile. He was the 2005 recipient of the Albert Maysles Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking at the Dallas Video Festival. Nelson is currently a visiting instructor at Tibet University in Lhasa, Tibet as part of the Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library Project. He is also pursuing his MFA in Directing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

Lynn True, Editor

Lynn True is a New York based editor and producer. After graduating from Brown University with a joint degree in Urban Studies and Architecture, Lynn began working as an assistant editor of documentary programming for PBS, AMC and NBC News Productions as well as on various documentary and experimental films. For two years, Lynn was the Creative Director and Senior Editor at an award-winning educational video production company, a position she left in order to work on independent film and video projects. As an editor, Lynn’s work has spanned narrative and documentary film to music videos and museum installations. Lynn’s last film, iThemba|Hope, a documentary about a South African AIDS counselor, premiered on The Sundance Channel. Past projects have also been shown at The Museum of Modern Art, BAM, Anthology Film Archives, New York Historical Society and IFP New York, in addition to festivals and conferences around the world. Lynn is currently editing and co-producing a feature length documentary about Michigan asparagus farmers and their struggle with globalization, Asparagus! (A Stalk-umentary).

The Goma Film Project

The Goma Film Project is an independent film outreach program designed to use the medium of film to bring awareness to the conflict in DRC, and empower those caught in its midst. GFP’s first feature-length project, In Transit, addresses the epidemic of rape and sexual violence in the DRC. Our primary objective is to lobby for women’s rights as the DRC transitions to a permanent government.