Elizabeth Gardner, Producer/Director

Elizabeth O’Brien Gardner is an independent documentary filmmaker living in Boston. She currently works as a producer in the education department at WGBH. Her first film “Our Lady’s” (2004) screened at film festivals across the country and was acquired by Filmmakers Library. Gardner was a consulting producer on “Testing Hope: Grade 12 in the new South Africa” (2007) and an associate producer on the award-winning Sundance film “My Flesh and Blood” (2003), which aired on HBO.  Prior to her documentary career, she worked as a digital producer and director of content programming.  Gardner received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and her masters in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.

Rachel Clark, Editor

Rachel Clark is an award winning video editor currently residing in Boston. Born in Scotland and raised mostly in England, she moved to the States as a teenager. She received her BFA in painting and printmaking from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, She has been employed as a professional video editor for the past fifteen years, both in London, UK and Boston, MA.

A three-time Emmy nominee, she has worked for such clients as the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, the BBC, Errol Morris, PBS, the National Geographic Channel, and Cinemax. She edited the Emmy award winning HBO documentary Have you seen Andy?, and award-winning documentary Family Affair which premiered in competition at Sundance, and was the first documentary acquired by Oprah Winfrey’s cable channel, OWN. Recently she cut a twenty minute trailer for The Supreme Price which won a MacArthur documentary film grant.

Bob Nesson, Cinematographer

Filmmaker Bob Nesson produces and shoots documentaries for broadcast and non-broadcast that cover a range of topics: war and social realities [Afghanistan: Between Three Worlds]; nature and the environment [Work of 1000, Anyplace Wild, All Bird TV]; art and culture [It is Memory: the Holocaust Sculptor Natan Rapoport; Soundings, PBS series]; technology and creativity [The Light Stuff/Nova, Surviving Mars/Discovery Channel].  His documentaries about urban design, architecture and transportation issues [Building Boston, Waterworks, Off-Track] are often used to highlight professional and graduate seminars on related subjects.  

Nesson is an adjunct professor at Emerson College, teaching interdisciplinary courses on science, the environment and filmmaking.  He received the Stanzler Award as Emerson’s outstanding part-time faculty in 2010, and is the recipient of numerous fellowships: the Flaherty Film Seminar; the Society of Environmental Journalism; Kopkind Foundation.  Nesson teaches internationally as well, including at KinoSchool [Krasnodar, Russia] and the Black Sea Environmental Seminar [Turkey].