Albert Maysles
Albert Maysles is a pioneer of Direct Cinema who with his brother David were the first to make nonfiction feature films where the drama of life unfolds as is without scripts, sets, interviews or narration. With his first film, Psychiatry In Russia (1955) Albert made the transition from working as a psychologist to documentary filmmaker. In 1960 he served as co-filmmaker of Primary. Together with his brother David, he made over 36 films, including Gimme Shelter (1970), Grey Gardens (1976), as well as the Academy Award Nominated Valley Curtain (1973) plus five other films on the projects of artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Albert has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (1965), a Peabody, an Emmy, numerous Lifetime Achievement Awards, the award for best cinematography at Sundance (2002) for Lalee's Kin which also received the Dupont-Columbia Award in 2004. In 1999 Eastman Kodak saluted him as one of the 100 world's finest cinematographers.
Kristen Nutile
Kristen Nutile is an independent documentary filmmaker and editor based in New York City. Kristen has produced, directed and edited eight documentary shorts, which have shown all over the world including the Sundance Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival. She is the 2006 recipient of the Albert Maysles Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking and has received two grants from the Jerome Foundation. She holds Master's degrees in both Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University and Biology from San Francisco State University.