Filmmaker’s Biography

Marc Shaffer is a documentary filmmaker, investigative reporter, and founder of the non-profit production company Inside Out Media in Oakland, California. Shaffer has directed and produced many acclaimed documentaries for television, including GANG WAR USA, MARIJUANA GOLD RUSH, and INTERROGATING SADDAM (National Geographic); BIGGER THAN ENRON and ROLLOVER (PBS Frontline); REMAKING AMERICAN MEDICINE and AMERICAN JERUSALEM: JEWS AND THE MAKING OF SAN FRANCISCO (PBS); and BROKEN DREAMS: THE BOEING 787, one of the most watched documentaries ever run on Al Jazeera English. His films have been nominated for three national Emmy Awards. 

Elisabeth Haviland James produced and edited the Emmy-nominated feature documentary ALTHEA (PBS, American Masters) and the Peabody and Emmy-winning THE LOVING STORY (HBO). Her acclaimed documentary OVERLAND, which she co-directed and edited, premiered at the 2020 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and has screened widely at film festivals in the United States and around the world.    

Serginho Roosblad is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist. He holds a Masters of Journalism degree from UC Berkeley, where he was the Marlon T. Riggs fellow in documentary filmmaking and a Dean’s Merit Fellow. Raised in Amsterdam, with roots in the Caribbean, Roosblad lives in San Francisco where he is a video producer for the Associated Press.