Sam Ball, Director/Producer

Sam’s work has screened on public television in the US and abroad and has been showcased at prestigious independent film venues around the world including the Pompidou Center in Paris, NY MoMA and other major museums, cinematheques and film festivals. Two of his films screened at the Sundance Film Festival and two received Golden Gate Awards at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

Projects under his direction have received grants from more than a dozen foundations and he has produced more than a dozen marketing and advocacy films for non-profit organizations. His documentaries include three portraits of MacArthur Award winners: "Pleasures of Urban Decay," about cartoonist Ben Katchor; "A Bridge of Books," about Aaron Lansky, founder of the National Yiddish Book Center, and "Zimbabwe Wheel," about Ralph Hotchkiss, who trains wheelchair riders in developing countries to make their own chairs from available materials.

Sam received his MA in documentary filmmaking from Stanford University in 1995 and his BA from McGill University in Montreal, where he earned the Jewish Studies Department’s Yaffee Award in 1991.

Email: sam@citizenfilm.org

Sophia Constantinou, Director/ Director of Photography

Sophia’s work has earned international acclaim for tackling difficult topics with artistry and sensitivity. She has produced, directed and photographed several award-winning documentaries, including "Divided Loyalties," an intensely personal, feature-length exploration of the conflict in Cyprus (Golden Gate Award, 1999); "Between the Lines," about women and self-injury (Golden Gate Award, 1998); and "Impact Zone" (Best Experimental Film, NY Underground Film Festival, 1997.)

Specializing in alluring, formally dramatic lighting design as well as improvised observational camerawork, Sophia has been shooting high-profile documentary films for over a decade. Her cinematography credits include HBO’s "Unchained Memories, PBS’ Presumed Guilty, and KQED’S Emmy Award winning "Home Front." She received her BA in Film Studies from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master’s from San Francisco State University. She teaches cinematography and directing at the City College of San Francisco and has been mentoring at-risk youth in filmmaking and cinematography for much of the past decade.

Email: sophie@citizenfilm.org

Kate Stilley, Producer/Editor

Kate Stilley’s producing and editing credits include the feature-length documentaries "Wired for What" for PBS, "End of a Legend" for The Learning Channel, and "That’s a Family!" for Women’s Educational Media (WEM.) Kate recently co-produced and edited WEM’s "Let’s Get Real," a film shown to hundreds of thousands of middle school kids across the country to spark straight-talking classroom discussions about bullying.

Other credits include editing work on award-winning documentaries such as "The Story of Mother’s and Daughters" for ABC Television; Fox Television’s Emmy Award winning "Loyalty and Betrayal: The Story Of The American Mob;" and the Academy Award nominated "Freedom on my Mind." In 2003, Kate co-produced and edited "Throwing Curves" about industrial designer Eva Zeisel, the first artist honored with a one-woman show at NY MoMA. Kate has edited many marketing and advocacy films for not-for-profit organizations. Most recently, she co-produced and edited "One Wedding and a Revolution," about the first gay wedding at San Francisco's City Hall.

Email: kate@citizenfilm.org