Michael Kleiman, Founder & CEO

Michael is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and public policy expert. He is the director and producer of WEB (2013) which chronicles the experience of remote villages in the Andes Mountains and Amazon Jungle of Peru receiving Internet access for the first time. The film earned the Audience Award at the 2013 DOC NYC Film Festival and the Special Jury Prize in Documentary at the 2014 Atlanta Film Festival. "Wiring the Amazon," a short documentary made alongside Web, was released by The New York Times as an "Op-Doc" in May 2014. Michael's first film, The Last Survivor, follows the lives of survivors of four different genocides and mass atrocities. The Last Survivor premiered at the 2010 Oxford Film Festival where it was named Best Documentary and won the Audience Award for Best Film. It went on to play in over 250 venues around the world as part of a social action campaign that engaged audiences in genocide prevention work.  In 2009, Michael was named a Fulbright Scholar by the U.S. State Department. Michael received a Master's in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a Dubin Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership, and a B.A. in Cinema Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

Palu Abadia, Producer/Editor

Palu Abadia is a Brooklyn based, Colombian-born filmmaker and visual artist with a Master’s degree in documentary film. She has worked as a cinematographer and video editor for many different international projects, including short and long documentaries, branding videos and video art installations. In 2016 she directed her first film, “Monologues in the Artist’s Studio,” awarded best documentary on architecture and design. She is currently working on her second film, "Nowhere to Fall", a story developed between New York and Colombia about music, tradition, identity, and women’s empowerment. Her work ranges from documentary to stop motion animation, addressing topics such as social justice, identity, art and immigration. She also teaches video and editing workshops for immigrant communities. She has exhibited her work in festivals, schools and galleries in the USA and abroad.