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Filmmakers
Damani Baker, Director/Producer/Cinematographer
Damani Baker, a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, was selected by Filmmaker Magazine as one of "25 new faces in independent film". His career spans documentaries, music videos, and advertisements. Some of Baker's documentaries include Grenada: A Dream Deferred, which revisits the events and circumstances of the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada, and Return, an award-winning film that explores the genius of traditional African medicine. Baker directed music videos for Maiysha's single "Wanna Be", nominated for a 2009 Grammy, and Morley's "Women of Hope", inspired by pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi. As a director his commercial clients have included Nike/Wieden & Kennedy and their 2006 World Cup 'Play Beautiful' campaign. Baker has also shot several viral campaigns for Puma, Wired Magazine, BMW and Apple for Late Night and Weekends. In addition to his professional work as a director, Baker is a guest professor at Sarah Lawrence College's Film and New Media Department and the director of the Quest for Global Healing Film Series in Bali, Indonesia. In 2010 he shot Music, a series of interviews with fifty prominent musicians and directed two more videos in Morocco for Morley.
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Alex Vlack, Director/Producer/Executive Producer
Alex Vlack co-founded Late Night and Weekends with director Andrew Zuckerman, where they make documentaries, commercials, branded content, books, media installations and narrative films. His credits include New York Times Television's Raising the Flag and NOVA's Battle Plan Under Fire; media installations at the Centers for Disease Control and the National Museum of the Marine Corps; advertising campaigns and content for Puma, BMW, and Apple; and a short film, High Falls, directed by Andrew Zuckerman, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won Best Narrative Short at the Woodstock Film Festival. He produced and edited 2008's Wisdom, a book, film, and exhibition of Zuckerman's portraits and interviews with prominent elders, followed by 2010's Music, a similar project of portraits and interviews with prominent musicians.
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