Bios

Benjamin Kegan (writer/director) is a New York based filmmaker and M.F.A degree candidate at Columbia University, School of the Arts, Film Division. Ben’s previous short films and documentaries have screened at several international film festivals including, TriBeCa, BFI London, BAM, Chicago International Film Festival, AFI Dallas, Ann Arbor, Cinequest, and CamerImage Poland. His documentary short, Team Taliban was named one of the Top 5 Best Short Films at the 2009 TriBeCa Film Festival by New York Magazine. He received a 2014 Davey Foundation grant for Emerging Artists and a James Bridges development grant for directing actors.

Chandra C. Silver (producer) has worked at Hart Sharp Entertainment, The Gersh Agency and for independent film producer Mary Jane Skalski. At Silver Lining Film Group, Chandra’s producing credits include the short film “Red Dot,” which will premiere at the WOW Film Festival in Sydney, Australia in 2014, and “The Revisionaries,” a feature documentary that won a special jury prize at the Tribeca Film Festival and was released by Independent Lens and Kino Lorber and in 2013. The film also won a Dupont Award from the Columbia School of Journalism in January 2014. Chandra was recently awarded student membership from the Producer’s Guild of America. She currently works at Green Hummingbird Entertainment

Stacey Richter (author of short story)  is an American writer of short fiction. Richter has been the recipient of four Pushcart Prizes, a National Prize for Fiction and the National Magazine Award. Her first collection of stories, My Date with Satan was published in 1999. In 2008, Richter published her second collection, Twin Study.