Bios

Marshall Curry - Producer, Director, Editor, Director of Photography

Marshall Curry was the director, producer, director of photography, and editor of the Academy Award-nominated documentary, STREET FIGHT.

STREET FIGHT won numerous awards, including the Audience Awards at the Tribeca Film Festival, AFI/Discovery SilverDocs Festival, and Hot Docs Festival. It also received the Jury Prize for Best International Documentary at Hot Docs and was nominated for a Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award. In 2006 it was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy.

The critically praised film was called “extraordinary” by David Denby (The New Yorker), “vastly entertaining” by John Anderson (Variety), and “filmmaking of the first order” by Scott Foundas (L.A. Weekly).

In 2005 Marshall was selected by Filmmaker Magazine as one of "25 New Faces of Independent Film", and he was awarded the International Documentary Association (IDA) Jacqueline Donnet Filmmaker Award.

In 2007 he received the International Trailblazer Award at MIPDOC in Cannes.

He has been a guest lecturer at Harvard, Duke, NYU, and other colleges, and he has served on juries for the International Documentary Association and Hot Docs Film Festival.

Before making STREET FIGHT, Marshall worked for a number of years as a Senior Producer at Icon Nicholson, a New York multimedia design firm, where he produced and directed interactive documentaries and websites for the Mashantucket Pequot Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and others.

Independently, he has shot, edited, and directed a number of short films including THE DAY THE INDIANS WON, (for the Rainforest Foundation US), which tells the story of the Panará Indians in Brazil who successfully won back their land, and NEGRIL ELEMENTARY, (for the Rockhouse Foundation), which chronicles an education project in Jamaica.

Prior to filmmaking, Marshall taught English in Guanajuato, Mexico, worked in public radio, and taught government in Washington DC.

He is a graduate of Swarthmore College where he studied Comparative Religion and was a Eugene Lang Scholar. He was also a Jane Addams Fellow at Indiana University's Center on Philanthropy, where he wrote about the history, philosophy, and economics of non-profits.

Liz Garbus - Executive Producer

Liz Garbus, co-founder of Moxie Firecracker Films, has directed and produced numerous award winning documentaries for theatrical distribution and over ten different television broadcasters. In 1998 she achieved international public and critical acclaim with her Academy Award nominated film, THE FARM: ANGOLA, USA. Made in collaboration with Jonathan Stack, THE FARM won, among other prizes, the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Golden Gate Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival. The film also received two Primetime Emmys.

Since co-founding Moxie Firecracker Films with director Rory Kennedy, she has directed and produced a number of films including JUVIES, which aired on A&E, THE EXECUTION OF WANDA JEAN, which premiered at Sundance and aired on HBO's America Undercover series, GIRLHOOD, which played theatrically and aired on TLC, and THE NAZI OFFICER'S WIFE for A&E. Garbus graduated from Brown University Magna Cum Laude.

Rory Kennedy - Executive Producer

Rory Kennedy is co-founder of Moxie Firecracker Films and director/producer of many award winning documentaries. Her 1999 film AMERICAN HOLLOW tells the story of a tight-knit Appalachian family and premiered at The Sundance Film Festival. It won Best Documentary at a number of festivals including American Film Institute and the Chicago International Film Festival, and it was aired on HBO's America Undercover series. Other films directed by Kennedy include A BOY'S LIFE (HBO), which chronicles the story of a seven-year-old boy and his family in Eupora, Mississippi, and PANDEMIC: FACING AIDS, which premiered at the Barcelona World AIDS conference and was aired on HBO. She is a graduate of Brown University where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Women's Studies.

Mary Manhardt - Additional Editing

Mary Manhardt has been editing documentaries for over ten years, working on projects that have aired on HBO, PBS, A&E, NBC, ABC, the Discovery Channel, and more. Her work has competed in film festivals all over the world, including Sundance, IDFA, Tribeca, Hot Docs, South by Southwest and others. Her credits include THE FARM: ANGOLA USA, which was nominated for an Academy Award and for which Mary received a Primetime Emmy Award in Picture Editing; FARMINGVILLE which was awarded a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival; NYPD/24/7, a seven-part documentary series for ABC.

James Baxter - Music

James Baxter received a BA in music from Yale University and an A.S. in audio engineering from Full Sail, where he was the salutatorian and the recipient of the Course Director's Award for Session Recording. He has produced records for a number of hip hop artists, including Decibolikal, FulPhillin, and Bonemachine, and he has composed and recorded albums under the pseudonyms Killing Time and Ekstasis. His music has been used in the films Double Down and Process of Elimination.