Director/Director of Photography
Starting out as a cameraman for WNET's landmark series, City Arts and EGG, Ezra won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary Camera. Over the last 12 years, Ezra has worked as a Director of Photography for specials, series and broadcast documentaries, working on hundreds of stories, profiles and segments, from roll-in packages to feature films now in distribution.
As a director and producer, Ezra produces work for high-end commercial clients, develops and shoots documentary films and consults in the documentary film community.
Versatile, creative and experienced, Bookstein is proficient as a one-man band or directing a twenty person crew. His first feature documentary, The Rich Have Their Own Photographers (2009) aired on PBS affiliates nationwide, garnered awards at film festivals around the world and had a 30 day extended run at The British Museum in London.
As creator, director and producer, Bookstein produced a 21-episode sit-com for NBA entertainment and AZN Network.
Founder and Director of the Jewish Film Competition, Ezra is a six-time bocce champion living in Brooklyn.
Producer
Greta Knutzen is both a creative producer and producer who has developed blue-chip television content for the major broadcasters. Over her ten-year career, she has been a field producer, a story-producer and a development and creative producer for high-end documentary programming such as Emmy-award winning SEX SLAVES (PBS/Frontline, Channel 4, CBC) and the factual series AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS (Cineflix for The Discovery Channel, National Geographic) and more recently, MANSON (Cineflix for The History Channel).
Greta grew up in the UK, but spent the last ten years living in Toronto while travelling extensively as a producer. Now based in New York City, Greta brings a unique skill-set to every project she produces. Working across three international markets, Greta has carved out a niche for herself developing challenging material and negotiating sensitive and, sometimes, unprecedented access for award-winning productions.
Greta has produced for National Geographic, The History Channel, A&E, The Discovery Channel, PBS, Channel Four (UK), CBC (Canada), History Television (Canada).