Anthony is an Award-Winning Nicaraguan filmmaker based in Brooklyn, N.Y.. Anthony began his film career in Utah as an accounting clerk for USA Networks Series, "Cover Me" and as an accountant for the Sundance Film Festival in 2001. After interning at Bikini Edit in Soho, NY, Anthony moved up to Production Accountant and Production Manager for E! Entertainment and Style Network working on shows like Howard Stern, Fashion Police, Isaac and Fashion Week.

Brian D. Finlay is a Senior Associate at the Stimson Center where he directs the Managing Across Boundaries Program, a multi-year initiative focusing on combating transnational crime including the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the global drug trade, human slavery, small arms trafficking, and counterfeit intellectual property. Prior to joining the Stimson Center, he served as an Executive Director with Veterans for America, as an International Program Officer for The Century Foundation (formerly the Twentieth Century Fund), and as a Senior Researcher at the Brookings Institution. Before emigrating from Canada, he was a Project Manager for the Laboratory Center for Disease Control in Ottawa. He has also served as a consultant to The Department of Foreign Affairs where he worked on the Ottawa Treaty on Landmines and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. He holds an MA from Norman Patterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, a Graduate Diploma from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and an Honors BA from the University of Western Ontario. He sits on the Advisory Board of Trojan Defense, LLC, and is a member of the Board of Directors of iMMAP, a pioneering organization leading the way forward in the effective use of information management practices in the service of humanitarian relief and development.

Finlay is author of numerous books and articles on national security issues including, The Next 100 Project: Leveraging National Security Assistance to Meet Developing World Needs (2009), Minding Our Business: The Role of the Private Sector in Managing the WMD Supply Chain (WMD Insights, 2009), Old Plagues: New Threats: The Biotech Revolution and its Impact on US National Security (2008), Manufacturing Possibility: Expanding Resources to Meet Global Challenges, Promote Economic Development, Support Innovation, and Prevent Proliferation (The Henry L. Stimson Center: 2008), and Cooperative Nonproliferation: Getting Further Faster (The Henry L. Stimson Center: 2006). He is the co-editor of Ultimate Security: Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (Century Foundation Press: 2003), and contributor to Grave New World: Security Challenges in the Twenty-First Century (Georgetown University Press: 2003).

The Managing Across Boundaries Program works to address an array of transnational challenges by providing a forum for information sharing and the development of innovative partnerships across the public and private sectors.

Carlos Pimentel Sanchez joined Esperanza International as country director in 1998. After twelve years of exemplary leadership, Mr. Pimentel was recently promoted to executive vice president of international operations. Mr. Pimentel directs and supervises all functions of Esperanza International’s operations in both the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

Mr. Pimentel received his bachelors of science in business systems analysis and design from APEC University in 1992.

Charles S. Farrell is a a cofounder of the Dominican Republic Sports & Education Academy,sports and education academy in the Dominican Republic aimed at giving talented baseball players the opportunity to attend U.S. colleges and universities on athletic scholarships.

Charlotte Vick has worked with the OCEAN in Google Earth for the last two years, She works with noted oceanographer, Dr. Sylvia Earle, and her Deep Search Foundation and directs RVLL Ocean Endeavors providing communications, technology, resource management and economic development expertise. She has participated in the evolution of online media since 1996. Living most of her adult life on islands, Charlotte has a passion for finding ways to improve life in and around coastal communities.

Charlotte graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and did additional studies at the University of Hawaii in ocean sciences. Her career has included government service at the state, national and international levels as well as extensive work in marketing and communications for business, industry and non-profit organizations. She is keen to aid in applying emerging web-based technology, sustainable ocean and energy solutions in island environments.

Debbie Kinder is an ocean conservationist, an award winning documentary filmmaker and the Co-Founder & CEO of the BLUE Ocean Film Festival & Conservation Summit (BLUE), based in Monterey, California.

Born in Monte Plata in October, 1964, lost his sight at the age of eight because of an eye ailment. He entered the National School for the Blind where he studied basic education.

He attended the following high schools: the Republic of Paraguay school, the Republic of Argentina school, and the Julio Abreu Cuello de Monte Plata school.

He earned a BA Cum Laude in Social Communication Sciences at the Dominican University O & M in Santo Domingo in July, 1990.

He has worked as a reporter, editor, scriptwriter, columnist and producer at various print media, television and radio, in his home province and in Santo Domingo.

He has participated in various events on library services for the blind and the deaf-blind which have taken place in Latin America, Europe and Oceania.

In 1991 he received the Supremo de Plata award from the Jaycees 72 institution, and in 1995 a scroll from the National Senate in which he was declared "Outstanding Youth".

For 15 years he has been director of the Cultural Services Unit for the Blind at the Pedro Henríquez Ureña National Library, and since 2000 serves as president of the Dominican Association of Deaf-Blind Inc. Between 2001 and 2007 he served as vice president of American Federation of the Deaf-Blind (FLASC), and currently he is President of the National Federation of the Disabled Inc. (FENADID).

In 1998 he published Monte Plata, Notes on its Cultural Heritage, and in 1999 he co-authored the anthology Contemporary Narrative of Monte Plata; currently he writes the column Listening to Radio for the Today newspaper and runs the newspaper El Medio de )

Gayle Ferraro, founder of Aerial Productions, brings personal accounts of extraordinary and socially compelling stories to the film circuit. To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks of America is Ferraro's fourth independently produced and directed feature documentary, and a recipient of the prestigious Sundance Documentary Program/Skoll Foundation Stories of Change grant.

Israel was born in February 15th 1980, in Monterrey, Mexico. After some film workshops in Cuba, New York and Netherlands he began a young company. Since then he's produced, directed and photographed several projects, among regional music videos. "Cochochi" is his first feature film, in which he shares script, photography, production and direction credits with his wife Laura Amelia. He is currently producing their second feature film "Jean Gentil", which he co-directed and photographed. At the same time he is producing two features films "Ocaso" by Theo Court and "Riverol" by Gabriel Nuncio. Together with Matías Meyer he is co-writing the script "Los Ultimos Cristeros", to be produced in Mexico in 2010.

Jennifer Arnold graduated from UCLA and University of Nairobi and returned to UCLA for a MFA in Film. Her award-winning short, MAID OF HONOR screened at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival before airing on HBO/Cinemax. She returned to Sundance with the Web series, "The Mullet Chronicles," which was developed into the AMERICAN MULLET, released by Palm Pictures/Lionsgate. A Small Act is an HBO Documentary film.

Juan Carlos Valdivia began his film career with Jonah and the Pink Whale, a story of love and drug trafficking that shattered Bolivian cinema of the time. After a career in Mexico, Valdivia returns to Bolivia to work in a wide range of audiovisual projects with his production company, Cinenómada.

Juanita Brown co-designed Traces of the Trade’s trans-Atlantic journey and served as a facilitator during some of the DeWolf family discussions. Prior to the film, Juanita creatively engaged students and teachers at San Francisco Bay Area schools in difficult dialogue around community building, race, class and gender identity politics. She also developed policy and organizational analyses for education and nonprofit organizations in California such as Oakland Unified School District, Oakland Small Schools Foundation, and Bay Area International Development Organizations. She most recently served as the Assistant Director for Development at the Coalition of Essential Schools, a national education reform organization. Juanita holds a Bachelor’s from Stanford University and a Master’s of Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. She also studied at the University of Ghana in West Africa. Currently, she is pursuing a career in dance and choreography, and is facilitating post-screening dialogues with Traces of the Trade part time. A Chicago native and lover of things creative, Juanita lives in San Francisco where she enjoys writing and tea-warmed conversations.

Katrina Browne is the seventh generation descendant of Mark Anthony DeWolf, the family’s first slave trader. Before launching this film and family process in 1999, Ms. Browne served as Outreach Planning Coordinator for the film adaptation of Anna Deavere Smith’s critically acclaimed play about the LA riots, Twilight: Los Angeles. She consulted with race relations and media experts to plan a national outreach campaign to use the PBS broadcast and video distribution as the basis for community dialogue on race, ethnicity and equity. She came to that work and to filmmaking from writing a Masters thesis comparing the role that Greek tragedies played in civic life in ancient Greece to the untapped potential of film to catalyze civic dialogue today. She wrote this thesis while earning a Masters in Theology at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. Prior to her graduate studies she worked as a senior staffperson at Public Allies, an AmeriCorps program now operating in twenty-one cities that she co-founded in 1991 in Washington, DC to recruit more young people and people of color into nonprofit careers. She held responsibilities in national start-up, site program development, evaluation and fundraising. She has a B.A. from Princeton University, where she studied cultural anthropology with a focus on oral history, and wrote a senior thesis on France’s role in the Holocaust.

Keith Aumont completed a masters' degree at Columbia University's Graduate Film School, where his short film "American Exquisite" won the National Board of Review award and Microsoft's "Most Outstanding Digital Short." As president of The Putty Division in Brooklyn, New York, Keith also produces and directs commercials, videos and interstitials. In 2005, Keith married writer Jennifer van der Kwast on the island of Curaçao, where she grew up. BOYS OF SUMMER is Keith's feature debut.

Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on May 7th 1980, Laura Amelia Guzmán graduated from Altos de Chavón / The School of Design, where she studied fine arts and photography. After exhibiting in photography shows, she attended the International Film and Television School in Cuba, specializing in cinematography. During that period she photographed and directed several short films and documentaries; one of them, "Antesala", selected in the International Competition at Cinema du Reel Film Festival.

Since 2004, she has lived in Mexico where she works with her husband Israel Cardenas, with whom she shares script, photography, production and direction credits in their first feature film "Cochochi" that had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival Official Selection 2007 (Orizzonti Section). Cochochi won the Diesel Discovery Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Grand Jury Award at the Miami and Toulouse Film Festivals and Fipresci Awards at Gijón and Toulouse Film Festivals. The film has been screened at Rotterdam, Habana, Río de Janeiro, Jeonju, Goteborg, Gramado and Buenos Aires, among others. She is currently working on her second feature film "Jean Gentil", which she filmed in her hometown

Marisol González is a Dominican filmmaker and producer who lives in New York. Currently, she works for HBO producing the sports programs in Spanish which air on HBO main network and HBO Latino. With more than 15 years in production, she has covered landmark events like the Pope’s visit to New York, the United Nation’s 50th anniversary, the 1994 World Cup and more. She has also worked for the two major Hispanic networks in the country - Univisión and Telemundo NBC, and has contributed as a writer for newspapers and magazines.

González graduated from Brooklyn College, with double majors in Broadcast Journalism and Spanish Literature. At the present, she is directing and producing the documentary “Children Behind the Wall” (in production). For her social work with this documentary, in 2008, she was awarded “The Always Inspiring” award in the United States by Siempre Mujer magazine, together with Maria Elena Salinas and Ingrid Betancurt. Most recent, González was invited to her former school, Brooklyn College, to host a workshop about “How to Succeed in a Male Dominated Workplace”. Furthermore, she is working as a consultant producer for the documentary “Gods and Kings” (in production).

A researcher and conservationist of marine mammals in the Dominican Republic and other regions. He studied at the State University of Odessa, Ukraine, USSR, obtaining a master's degree in Hydrobiology in early 1983. Upon his return he joined UASD's Research Center of Marine Biology (CIBIMA) where, among other duties, served as Coordinator of the Marine Mammal Program (PROMMAR).

He specialized in Marine Ecology and Aquaculture at the Graduate School of the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD). In 1987 he received technical training on Humpback Whale research at the Center for Coastal Studies, in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

At CIBIMA in 1987 he founded the Caribbean Network of Sightings and Stranding of Marine Mammals. Between the years 1987 to 1989 he coordinated the scientific research on whale population carried out in the Bay of Samaná, which led to the creation of the highest scientific research effort known up to that point, which was named YONAH (Years of North Atlantic Humpbacks).

In 2004 he organized and represented the country at MONAH (More of North Atlantic Humpbacks), research project on the population status of Humpback Whales in the North Atlantic, using benign techniques.

Through these projects he has become one of the researchers that have performed more biopsies on Humpback Whales in the world.

Since 2001 he is a member of the Dominican Foundation for Marine Research (FUNDEMAR) and together they founded the project Friends of the Dolphins in Bayahibe, Dominican Republic, which built the first index of dolphin identification in the Dominican Republic.

Currently he heads Atemar, Inc., an environmental consulting firm which coordinates major research projects carried out in the Dominican Republic on Humpback Whales.

He is a Consultant and Contractor of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and has participated in PRIEST and SPLASH projects researching Humpback Whales in the North Pacific Ocean and the Right Whales of the North Pacific, respectively.

Currently he is Honorary Advisor to the Secretary of the Environment, in which capacity he has been able to solve the Rockash case, to secure the adherence of the Dominican Republic to the International Whaling Commission and to create standards for dolphin captivity in the country.

Actor-writer Roger Guenveur Smith adapted his Obie Award-winning solo performance of A HUEY P. NEWTON STORY into a Peabody Award-winning telefilm, directed by his longtime colleague Spike Lee. Also among Mr. Smith's many screen credits are Mr. Lee's DO THE RIGHT THING, MALCOLM X, GET ON THE BUS, and HE GOT GAME, as well as EVE'S BAYOU, KING OF NEW YORK, DEEP COVER, ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS, HAMLET, and AMERICAN GANGSTER, for which Mr. Smith was nominated for the Screen Actors' Guild Award. He also starred in Steven Soderbergh's HBO series, K STREET.

For the international stage Roger has created and performed FREDERICK DOUGLASS NOW, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS 1992, IN HONOR OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, WHO KILLED BOB MARLEY?, ICELAND, INSIDE THE CREOLE MAFIA, TWO FIRES, and JUAN AND JOHN, inspired by the friendship of baseball greats Juan Marichal and John Roseboro.

Sandra Schulberg restored her father's historic film about the 1st Nuremberg trial, Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today [The Schulberg/Waletzky Restoration], a project that took 5 years to complete with the collaboration of archives in the U.S., Germany, and Holland. Since 2003, she has also preserved more than 25 Marshall Plan films with the Academy Film Archive. A distinguished independent film producer, Schulberg was a senior film & TV executive for the PBS drama series "American Playhouse" for 7 years. For 3 years, she served as executive producer of the private German media fund, Hollywood Partners. Her many credits include the Oscar-nominated Quills; Sundance Grand Prize winner Waiting for the Moon; the 1st U.S./German/Chinese co-production Shadow Magic; and two winners of the Cannes Camera d'Or, Alambrista and Northern Lights.

A longtime advocate of "Off-Hollywood" film artists, Schulberg founded the IFP in 1979, the largest organization of indie filmmakers in the U.S. In 2010, she launched IndieCollect, a campaign to preserve U.S. independent films. She is currently writing a book about the making of Nuremberg called The Celluloid Noose, and teaching Feature Film Financing & Co-Production at Columbia University.

Sevy was born in Caracas, Venezuela. At an early age he moved to his parents' hometown Materdomini, in the province of Avellino, Italy. He began performing in theater at age 4 for the town theater company. Half way through middle school, his family moved back to Venezuela where he joined the Loyola drama department and was cast in several plays. He also started his career as a professional actor, appearing in several television projects with various featured roles. At the same time he started a career in modeling working in TV commercials, print ads, and some runway shows. He then moved to Orlando, Florida where he continued his training as an actor. Later on Sevy moves to Miami, Florida and initiates his professional career as an actor in the USA. After incredible success in the commercial market, he decided it was time to move to the movie capital of the world. Sevy Di Cione currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

He has appeared in over 80 commercials and campaigns for the US, Canada, Europe, and Latin America. He has appeared in several television pilots for both the Latin and American Markets. 2007 was a groundbreaking year when Lionsgate picked up Mauro Borrelli's "Haunted Forest" with a world wide release making it Sevy's first mainstream film in the lead role. Since then, Sevy has worked in several other films including Lionsgate's "Neowolf", Dan Neira's "Touched," and collaborated in two projects with Italian director Loris Lai. He is currently working on Jerry G. Angelo's "Horro Torium" scheduled to be released late 2011.