Our Team
Toni Shapiro-Phim
Director and Producer
Toni Shapiro-Phim received a PhD in cultural anthropology from Cornell University. Her dissertation, books and other publications focus on the history and cultural context of dance and music around the world, particularly in relation to violence, migration, conflict transformation and gender concerns. She’s held teaching and research appointments at the University of California-Berkeley, Yale University and Bryn Mawr College, and worked in Cambodian, Lao and Vietnamese refugee camps in Indonesia and Thailand. She’s also conducted years of ethnographic research in Cambodia. Co-editor of Dance, Human Rights and Social Justice: Dignity in Motion, she has also contributed to Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide and The Choreography of Resolution: Conflict, Movement, and Neuroscience, among other publications. Her book, Talking Dance: Stories from the South China Sea, was published in 2016. Toni serves as Director of Programs at the Philadelphia Folklore Project where she conducts ethnographic research, curates exhibitions and produces performances, humanities forums and publications highlighting aspects of the cultural practices of Philadelphia’s diverse communities. Because of the War is her first film.
The Philadelphia Folklore Project
Producer
The Philadelphia Folklore Project works to sustain vital and diverse living cultural heritage in communities in our region through collaborative projects, research, documentation and education, prioritizing folk and traditional arts in service of social change. We identify local folk artists and support their artistic growth; produce public programs advancing folk artists and traditions significant to Philadelphia communities; develop education programs benefiting children and adults; and document outstanding practitioners and practices. To learn more about the Philadelphia Folklore Project, please visit: www.folkloreproject.org
Sharon Mullally
Editor
Sharon Mullally is an Emmy Award-winning independent producer/director and editor whose work regularly appears on local and national public television. Sharon began her career with 10 years in staff positions at broadcast television stations in Philadelphia and Baltimore. She left the commercial broadcast world to pursue freelance media work, focusing on social issue documentaries. Her latest directorial work is Pope Francis' Visit – 2015 Philadelphia (History Making Productions) a two-disc commemorative DVD package for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, 2015. Other recent work includes Voices Across the Divide (extendedPLAY Inc., 2013), Tango Macbeth (Harmony Image Productions, 2012), Sacred Poison (Bedo Productions, 2011), Mrs. Goundo's Daughter (Attie & Goldwater Productions, 2009), First Person (Benjamin Herold, Director, 2008), the CINE Golden Eagle and UNAFF Stanford Editing Award-winning documentary Rosita (Attie & Goldwater Productions, 2005). Mullally has been a board member and workshop leader for PIFVA (Philadelphia Independent Film/Video Association) and an instructor/facilitator at Scribe Video Center. Her work has appeared in the SILVERDOCS Film Festival, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, the DoubleTake Documentary Festival, and the Philadelphia Festival of Independents.
David Felix Sutcliffe
Editor
David Felix Sutcliffe is an Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker whose work is rooted in racial justice and countering Islamophobia. His most recent film (T)ERROR, premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and was awarded a Special Jury Prize. (T)ERROR is the first documentary to place filmmakers on the ground during an active FBI counterterrorism sting operation. (T)ERROR, co-directed with Lyric R. Cabral, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in 2015. It was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary and won an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Documentary. Along with (T)ERROR co-director Lyric R. Cabral, David was honored by the International Documentary Association with the Emerging Filmmaker Award, and the Creative Promise Award by the Tribeca Film Institute. He was named by Indiewire as a Director to Watch, and included in Filmmaker Magazine's annual list of "25 New Faces of Independent Film." His work has been supported by the BBC, the Sundance Documentary Fund, the Guardian, the Tribeca Film Institute, the Bertha BRITDOCS Journalism Fund, ITVS, IFP, New York State Council in the Arts, Candescent Films, and the NEA. David is a 2017 Pew Fellow and a 2017-2018 Soros Equality Fellow.
Videographers
Barry Dornfeld
Sosena Solomon
David Felix Sutcliffe
Color-Correction & Sound Mix
Ziggy Gamble
Daniel Haddaway
Credits & Titling
Daniel Haddaway
Graphic Design
Tony Carranza
Animation
Alexa Burrell
Post-Production Consultant
Ann Tegnell
Additional Post-Production
Michael Gualtieri
Expressway Productions
Additional Editing
Sosena Solomon
Additional Videography
Jos Duncan
Dean Myers
Anna Mulé
T.C. Owens
Ted Passon
Toni Shapiro-Phim
Consulting Scholar
Dr. Ruth Stone
Many thanks to all the additional people and institutions who contributed to the making of this movie.