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 Emily
Kunstler graduated
from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Film
and Video in 2000. Emily worked as a video producer for Democracy
Now!, an independent national television and radio news program
that broadcasts on the Pacifica Radio Network and on public
access and satellite television. She was a studio art fellow
with the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of
American Art in 2004. Emily was an associate producer on Alison
Maclean’s "Persons of Interest" (Sundance,
2004). At Off Center Media, Emily has produced, directed and
edited a number of short documentaries, including "Tulia,
Texas: Scenes from the Drug War" (2003), which won Best
Documentary Short at the Woodstock Film Festival, and was
instrumental in winning exoneration for 35 wrongfully-convicted
people, and "Getting Through to the President" (2004),
which has aired on the Sundance Channel, Current TV, and Channel
Thirteen/WNET. |
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 Sarah
Kunstler graduated from Yale University with a BA
in Photography in 1998 and from Columbia Law School with a
JD in 2004. She is currently a criminal defense attorney practicing
in the Southern District of New York. Along with Emily, she
is a co-founder of Off Center Media and has produced and directed
a number of short documentaries, including "Tulia, Texas:
Scenes from the Drug War" (2003), and "Getting Through
to the President" (2004). "William Kunstler: Disturbing
the Universe" is the sisters’ first documentary
feature. |
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 Billy
Sothern
graduated from NYU Law School in 2001 and is an attorney with
The Justice Center, a non-profit law office located in New
Orleans, Louisiana that provides representation to indigent
defendants across the Deep South. Mr. Sothern works primarily
on capital appeals in Louisiana. He was the attorney for Ryan
Matthews, and worked successfully to get Ryan off of death
row and back home with his family. Subsequently, Mr. Sothern
has written about race, poverty and the criminal justice system
in national magazines and publications. Mr. Sothern is the
director of Reprieve U.S., a Louisiana-based charity dedicated
to assisting in the provision of effective legal representation
and humanitarian assistance to impoverished people facing
the death penalty. |
 Vanita
Gupta joined the NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) as a Soros Justice
Fellow in September 2001. She is now an Assistant Counsel
at LDF where her work centers on civil rights litigation that
promotes systemic reform of the criminal justice system. Ms.
Gupta successfully led the effort to overturn the convictions
of 38 defendants in Tulia, Texas, organizing over a dozen
national law firms in this fight and coordinating the legal
and media strategy. Working with co-counsel, she also recently
settled the civil rights cases filed on behalf of the wrongfully
convicted Tulia residents for $6 million. The settlement disbanded
the narcotics task force responsible for the drug sting and
resulted in the early retirement of two key officers involved
in overseeing the sting operation. Ms. Gupta worked with Off
Center on “"Tulia, Texas: Scenes from the Drug
War." |
 Lazar
Bloch
is a social justice activist. He co-produced "Tulia,
Texas: Scenes from the Drug War" and is currently a law
student at Columbia, where he coordinates the National Lawyers
Guild and the Outlaws chapters. He spent the summer of '05
working on indigent defense reform legislation and monitoring
conditions of confinement in youth prisons with the Juvenile
Justice Project of Louisiana. He is currently a law clerk
at the ACLU Gay and Lesbian Rights Project, working on issues
affecting queer young people.” |
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