About the Film

Molly Stuart
Director, Producer, Editor

A director, producer, and editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Molly was a 2018 Women Peace and Security Fellow and a 2019 resident with SFFILM. While earning an MFA in Cinema at San Francisco State University, Molly won the Bill Nichols Excellence in Cinema Award, the Canon Best in Show Award, the Spotlight on Women in Film Award, and the Barbara Hammer Award. She has also won several film festival awards including Best Documentary Short, Best Short, and Best Young Women Storyteller Award.

Amitai Ben-Abba
Producer, Writer

Born and raised in Jerusalem, Amitai is a writer, filmmaker, and activist now based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry appeared in The Independent, Haaretz, Witness, CounterPunch, and other publications. He was awarded the Mary Merritt Henry Prize for a Group of Poems, the Ardella Mills Prize – Critical Essay, and is a two-time winner of the Melody Clarke Teppola Creative Writing Prize in Fiction (2020 & 2019). Amitai holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College, which he attended as a Fellow in Writing and Community Engagement.

Daniel Bernardi
Producer

Daniel Bernardi is a documentary filmmaker and cultural studies scholar in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. His work addresses culture conflict, representation of race and ethnicity in film, and the shifting American narrative in the Middle East. A veteran of the Iraq War, Daniel is the Director of the Veterans Documentary Corps and founder of El Dorado Films. He has directed four and produced ten feature films.

Andrés Gallegos
Cinematographer

Born in Chile, Andrés Gallegos discovered his passion for films at an early stage of his life. In 2008 he graduated with a degree in audio-visual communications at Uniacc, in Santiago de Chile. He has shot more than twenty short films and six feature films to date as a DP. Andrés was awarded Best Cinematography at Santiago Short Film Festival for Axion, and Best Short Film at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. Andrés earned his MFA in Cinema at San Francisco State University where he received the Graduate Award for Distinguished Achievement. He has also been nominated for the ASC (American Society of Cinematographers) Heritage Awards for his cinematography work on the film Shoe Shiner. His work has screened at Cannes, Raindance, Mill Valley, Valdivia and more. Andrés is a member of the ACC, Association of Chilean cinematographers.

Daniel Chein
Editor

Daniel Chein is an BAVC National Mediamaker Fellow, SFFILM FilmHouse resident, and recipient of the Princess Grace Award in Film. His last film Basha Man won the Short Film Award at CAAMFest2017. As an editor, his work on Changa Revisited earned the film the Best Feature Documentary at the Astra Film Festival. Daniel studied in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University and is a member of the Asian American Documentary Network.

Shalva Wise
Associate Producer, Impact Coordinator

Based in Brooklyn, Shalva is a long-time Jewish educator with a Masters in Social Work who collaborates both locally and internationally on impact-focused creative projects. She has worked on both feature and short-form documentaries pertaining to Palestinians’ struggle for freedom, and is a founding member of The GrayLit Culture Hub‘s editorial team.

Uri Agnon
Composer

Uri is a composer, percussionist, and theater creator from Jerusalem. His works for theater, dance, and film have been preformed both on Fringe and Central stages in Israel. Uri has written scores for the documentary films Makhane Meshutaf, #UploadingHolocaust, and OBJECTOR. He has exhibited music installations is a variety of galleries including Agripas 12, Barbur Gallery, May Gallery, and Menofim Festival. His 2016 opera “Word Problems” has preformed over 15 times around Israel. He holds an MA in the Philosophy of Music in the Hebrew University.

Additional Crew

Joan Lasselle, Associate Producer

David Sandwisch, Sound Mixer

Hilla Sheharbani & Shahar Cohen, Sound Recordists

Jules Cowan, Web and Graphic Designer

Supporters

Special thanks to the many individual supporters who have donated to OBJECTOR:

Adithya Raghunathan, Adrian Leong, Annette Herskovits, Annette Sarraille, Annie Mahon, Ariel Boone, Benjamin Cooper, Benyamin Komalo, Berel Lang, Beverly Anderson, Binya Koatz, Brian Joseph Ranum, Brown Hollowell, California Community Foundation, Carrie Snow, Celine M, Cheryl A. Lander, Christopher Gant, Courtney Sid, Craig Luke, Curtis Appel, David Mai, Deidrie B Towery, Deborah Jenkins, Donna Mae Foronda, Elizabeth Mariani, Ellen Brotsky, Elsa Auerbach, Emily Hartlief, Evelyn J Pine, Eyal Matalon, Farah Ahmed, Gemma Pecorini, Hana Chamoun, Hanna Mahon, Huang Yu Shan, Ian Stokes, Jean and Whit Stuart, Jill Mullikin-Bates, Jody West, John Zenone, Johnny Symons, Josh Broder, Julie Marsh, Kathleen Holmes, Kathy Shapiro,  Kimberly Lowe, Kim and Johnny Williams, Kristina Johansson, Kyle Bellar, Kristina Johansson, Lauree Dash, Lee and Tony Lucatorto, Leigh and Rachel Hollowgrass, Levi Westerveld, Lisa Kronberg, Lisa Alumkal, Louise Bjorknas,  Mahmoud Abdalrahman, Mara A Gans, Marilyn Kentz, Marge Sussman, Mary Kish, Mary Martin, Matthew Banks, Nada El-Eryan, Nawras Abureehan, Michael Bennett, Mike and Monica Weaver/Woelfel, Nando San Jimenez, Nick Margherita, Noam Birnbaum, Orit Weksler, Patricia Fitzsimmons, Raquel Moreira, Richard Smith, Robin White, Ruben Stern, Sarah Downs, Sarah Mason, Selma Begovic, Shafi Goldwasser, Sharmila Sengupta, Siddiq Bazarwala, Sophia Becker, Stanis Moody Roberts, Suncica Habul, Susan and Chuck Webb, Susan Shawl, Terese Gjernes, Tim Hartnett, Trevor Hands, Will Cassilly, Will Goldberg, Xan S Brosseau, Yasmine Zaher, Yulia Safonova