The Four Filmmakers...

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 and was regularly locked "out" of church "lock-ins" from the age young age of …5. There was nothing political in this- but the exclusion did breed a certain curiosity.

Leah graduated from Brown University with degrees in political science and biology. She spent half of her time at Brown in school… and the other half engaged in internet start-ups, activism, and photography.

She took a short course in documentary filmmaking soon after school. Upon completing the class she was promptly told not to aspire to any "big" first project- lest she try to crash through the gates that have traditionally stopped filmmakers from jumping in and making their films. That said, she's spent a great deal of time over the past year learning where experience does and does not count.

Leah has great dreams for Seeing Red and for other media projects that can now use the Internet innovatively for social mobilization. Next year she will be working with filmmakers and organizations to achieve just that… and in the off time she'll be in graduate school at Yale, studying law, new media, and politics.