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Julia Meltzer is a filmmaker living in Los Angeles. Her film and video work has been broadcast nationally on POV and exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, the Sharjah Biennial, The Toronto International Film Festival, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Over the past decade, she has worked extensively in Syria, teaching and producing and directing films. Meltzer is a recipient of grants from the Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship, the John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and she was a Senior Fulbright Fellow in Damascus, Syria in 2005–6. She has taught at Hampshire College, UC Irvine and Cal Arts. She received her BA from Brown University and her MFA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Laura Nix recently co-wrote California State of Mind: The Legacy of Pat Brown. Her non-fiction work has been shown on HBO and the History Channel, in addition to international DVD distribution. She is the writer/director of the narrative feature The Politics of Fur, which played in over 70 film festivals internationally, and won numerous awards including the Grand Jury Prize at Outfest. In 2001, Laura co-founded the production company Automat Pictures, where she directed dozens of presentations, including the feature documentary Whether You Like It or Not. As producer, she made the festival hit The Yes Men Fix the World about the political activist duo, and is currently producing their next film, The Yes Men Are Revolting.