Tom Mercer, writer and director of Uncivil Liberties, has a masters degree from Rockefeller College in Public Affairs and studied film at Ithaca College. Mercer co-founded and led a regional chapter of the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers (AIVF). Uncivil Liberties is a documentary set in the near future and shows a United States where the government resorts to heightened surveillance of its own citizens in the name of security, while domestic extremists boldly rebel and take up arms in resistance.
Justin Maine, a director of the documentary So Right So Smart, graduated from Sage Junior College of Albany with a degree in Graphic Design. He pursued his passion of writing, producing and directing independent films. Maine co-founded MagicWig Productions, Inc. in 2002 with Guy Noerr and Don Fisher. So Right So Smart is an award-winning film narrated by Daryl Hannah and is about the movement toward ecological commerce.
Julie Casper Roth, director of The Main, graduated from Smith College and is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has been presented at such venues as MadCat International Women's Film Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, and Chicago Reeling Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival. The Main is a film about the first openly gay bar that opened up in 1983 in Superior, Wisconsin. The film also explores social trends that may threaten the continued existence of historically significant queer spaces.
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