Christina Antonakos-Wallace is a documentary filmmaker and activist based in Brooklyn, NY. In 2006, she graduated at the top of her class at the New School and Parsons School of Design with a B.F.A. in Fine Arts and Video, and a B.A. in Sociology. Her honors include MTV’s “Fight for Your Rights” scholarship and a Fellowship from Humanity in Action. Her varied experiences include assisting filmmaker Barbara Hammer, and interning with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in Berlin. Currently, she produces videos for NGOs, and teaches media literacy and video production to high school students with the organization Global Action Project. with WINGS and ROOTS is a very personal film, and the outcome of years of self-reflection about her own complex identity, and involvement in anti-racist and immigrant rights organizing. It is her first feature-length film.

Photo by Sophia Wallace

michael trückenbrodt
co-producer

Michael is a co-founder of Timeprints, a Berlin-based company that produces documentary films for the German and international markets. Their main focus is historical documentaries, creative documentaries and international co-productions. Over the last decade, Michael has produced eleven documentaries for broadcast, including NOWHERE IN EUROPE (Premiere, DokLeipzig, ZDF/3sat/TVP2), SCHLAFLOS IM KRIEG (Radio Bremen/Arte), PREUSSISCHES LIEBESGLÜCK (RBB/Arte), and “MY DEAR MUSLIM…,” which won Best Short at the One-World-Film Festival in Prague and FIPRESCI-Award Krakow in 2006. A historian by training, Michael previously worked as an author and producer of museum media at the German Historical Museum.

Cano was born in Keşan/ Turkey, and grew up in Berlin-Kreuzberg/Germany. Her father’s family immigrated to Germany in the 1970′s for political reasons. Cano’s interest in challenging visual representations of culture and identity finds an echo in her academic and practical work. Since 2006, she has studied film studies, cultural anthropology and Turkish studies at the Free University in Berlin and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, supported by a scholarship from the Rosa Luxemberg Foundation. Cano has worked as assistant director on several documentaries, including “Crime:Berlin” by Jeremy Xido. Currently she is finishing her first documentary film: „Keşanlı”, a self-reflexive work dealing with the discrimination of Roma people in the place of her birth, and through this frame, reflecting on her own cultural identity.

Jacqueline was born in Erfurt, Germany in 1964. After finishing highschool, she studied German Literature, and later Visual Communication at the Hochschule der Künste (HdK). During her studies at HdK, she directed her first film “Der Streit” (1996) about children in a Berlin refugee home, produced for NDR, a German television station. In 1999 she co-directed her second film together with Michael Hammon “Hilbrow Kids” (1999) an award-winning documentary about the street children in Johannesburg, South Africa. In the next years completed several films including: “Finden Sie ein Bild für das, was mit Ihnen ist” (2001) and “Schlangen im Feuer” (2002). In 2003 she received a scholarship to participate as a junior author in the “Step by Step” Master School where she developed the screenplay the “Price of Freedom.” Currently, Jacqueline is also working on the documentary film “Tanz mit der Angst” and is developing a treatment for a feature film: “Polacci Pomodor.”

Born in Seattle, Washington to Vietnam War Refugees, Amanda’s second-generation experience has fueled her passion for social change and creativity by any means. Amanda finished her BA from the Evergreen State College with emphasis on independent media production and Community Development. She relocated to New York City to work with American Documentary/Point of View (POV) on PBS and currently works in the Community Engagement and Outreach department. As an artist and community organizer, her work has drawn from her social identity and interactions with the world, as a young person, woman, Vietnamese-American, and an “other”.

cesar naranjo
web and new media team

Born in Colombia and raised in Brooklyn, César’s interests have always revolved around technology and exploring different cultures. César received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003. Since university he has worked in the technology sector, currently as a freelance computer programmer concentrating on web, mathematical, and Iphone applications under his boutique company OrangeMico. Previously, César worked for 7 years at a top-tier hedge fund implementing advance risk models in structured credit. In addition, César is active in a variety of community projects. He is a board member of Community Works, a non-profit arts and education organization that forges links between diverse cultures and communities, serving over 100,000 students annually through performances, workshops, screenings, and mentoring. César is a passionate traveler and linguiphile, and has begun adding Portugese, and German to his Spanish and English skills.