The Four Filmmakers

Gerry Corneau Co-Producer and Director Gerry - the Rhode Island Evangelical

So, the perfect filmmaker bio starts with a rich family in the burbs -or- grows up poor in the 'hood, which leads through any one of the fabulous film schools, or a series of very solid working up the ladder jobs (or both). Then, a great shot at a first project that's a no-brainer, guaranteed success. Then, there's mine.

Grew up in small town in Rhode Island, went to Catholic school, was the tubby religious kid, and talked politics at home (anywhere really) constantly. Became a politically radical atheist who wandered from profession to profession, continent to continent, with no real plan to do anything, at least none that ever got anywhere. Fun jobs, nice places, boats, mountains, islands, all that stuff... read more »

Leah Belsky Co-Producer and Director Leah - the secular Jew from Washington, DC

Leah co-directed/produced Seeing Red while living in Washington. By day she worked at the World Bank, and by night and weekends she filmed and traveled the country. (This would of course mean that unbeknownst to them, the World Bank partially 'supported' this movie.)

She was raised in a Jewish family of five- the Connecticut portion of which is now largely agnostic… or, maybe (searching?) atheist. (Don't tell the grandparents as they are already wondering why Leah has spent half of her last two years in church.) She carries a Jewish identity- even if this has no relation to God. Until Seeing Red, Leah had never met an evangelical Christian- though she spent plenty of time with Catholics... read more »

Elon Green, Associate Producer Elon - the selectively observant Brooklyn Jew

Elon, a former reporter at The New York Observer, currently works in the New York private sector -- a career choice which doesn't exactly warm the cockles of his liberal, Jewish heart

Since he obtained his degree in film at Boston University, Mr. Green has toiled under the tutelage of several highly-intelligent, likeminded Jews including Albert Maysles and Peter Kaplan, in the areas of both documentary and mass media. He attends Friday night services rarely -- and only then for the food and top-shelf bourbon.

Amrita Asst. Producer Amrita - the British Hindu

Raised in England, educated at Oxford with a job in a large media conglomerate, Amrita has on paper the classic upbringing of the smug- sushi- eating- liberal who scorns religion and faith in public life.

However, being born to immigrant Indian parents whilst growing up in suburban white England (and going to a Catholic High School) Amrita is constantly conscious of the fluidity and contradictions of cultural identity. Amrita would describe her youth as being somewhere between Calcutta and Surrey (It's the Greenwich, Connecticut of England)

Like many other Europeans, Amrita is utterly intrigued by American politics and culture. Whilst making the film she was working as a lobbyist in Washington DC in order to understand the political system at its center. What was missing in her mind was an understanding of the people involved!