Samantha Feder, Co-Director/Co-Producer, Executive Producer is a media producer, activist and educator. She has been working on documentaries for political and social justice since 1999. Her first project brought her to Cuba for four months, where she worked alongside renowned Cuban filmmakers producing "Versus," a film about US Cuba policy. Feder was the Associate Producer for the film "Beyond Good & Evil; Media Children and Violent Times," which explored the ways that the media's representation of the war in Iraq has affected children both in the US and abroad. She produced and edited the short narrative “F. Scott Fitzgerald Slept Here,” which won the Frameline completion fund. Boy I Am is her first feature film. Feder received an M.A. in Media Studies from the New School University, with concentrations in media criticism and documentary production. With the help of a research fellowship from the Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, Feder has begun pre-production on her second documentary.
Julie Hollar, Co-Director/Co-Producer is a freelance writer, artist and activist. She worked as a volunteer member of the Paper Tiger Television collective for three years, co-producing documentaries such as "Class Dismissed"—a 30 minute documentary featuring Howard Zinn that explores what is left out of the typical high school history curriculum—and "Mandate for Democracy," a response to the 2004 presidential election. Previously, as the field and communications coordinator at the Lesbian Gay Rights Lobby in Texas, Hollar helped pass the first trans-inclusive non-discrimination legislation through the Texas House of Representatives. She recently left her position as the communications director at the national media watch group FAIR to travel and live abroad. Boy I Am is her first feature film.
Jules Rosskam, Editor, is the founder of MamSir Productions and has worked in video production and post-production for six years. Rosskam has worked for numerous production and film distribution companies, including Frameline, Richter Productions and PBS, and has independently made three short films and one feature documentary, transparent. In 2004 Curve Magazine featured Rosskam as one of ten emerging filmmakers to look out for, and Rosskam's work as a filmmaker was highlighted in the June 2004 issue of Velvet Park and in the forthcoming 2006 issue of TransNation.
Dahlia Kozlowsky, Associate Producer, has been involved in the production of documentary films for the past four years. She has contributed creatively to political and historical documentaries appearing on PBS, National Geographic and at the Sundance Film Festival. She is currently a freelance Producer in New York, and in addition to her work on documentary projects, has recently been independently producing music videos for up-and-coming bands.
Joshua Aaron Guthals, Music Editor/Composer, is a musician living in Brooklyn. Prior to composing music for Boy I Am, he co-created, scored and starred in the short film “To Do,” which premiered at NewFest in 2003 and went on to screen at other festivals around the country. He records music under the alias Transformer (videos at www.tasty-tasty.com). He plays solo and with his band, Kind Monitor, around the New York City area.
Jules Rosskam
Julie Hollar and Sam Feder
