Kevin Keating (Producer/Director)

Kevin Keating’s extensive experience as a Director of Photography spans over 25 years and covers the full range of filmmaking from features, broadcast news and television specials, to educational, industrial projects and many documentaries. Beginning in the early 1970s, his passion for political filmmaking led him to work closely with the Maysles brothers and Barbara Kopple among others. He was also a staff cinematographer for WNET’s “The 51st State” and went on to shoot parts of the Maysles’ “Gimme Shelter” and Leon Gast and Jerry Garcia’s “The Grateful Dead Movie.” He also filmed Mohammed Ali in Zaire and Manila for what would become parts of “When We Were Kings” (Leon Gast 1996), more than two decades later.

In addition to When We Were Kings, Kevin’s other Academy Award credits include Harlan County, USA (Barbara Kopple 1977), American Dream (Barbara Kopple, 1992) and the Academy Award nominated Liberators (Nina Rosenblum/ William Miles 1993). Other credits include “On Company Business”, a fourhour documentary about the CIA which aired on PBS; “No Holds Barred”, a CBS-TV special; Wyeth at Kuerner’s; and “Hells Angels Forever”, a theatrically-released documentary that he co-directed. He began K Video Productions in 1994 and has since worked on a variety of projects: from music and educational videos to feature film screenplays and, of course, documentaries. “Giuliani Time” represents Kevin’s debut as a director of a major feature documentary.

Williams Cole (Producer)

Williams Cole has worked on a variety of network, cable and independent documentary film productions for CBS Eye on People, A&E/The History Channel, Nick Broomfield, Stephanie Black and Estela Bravo as well as a stint at the network newsmagazine Fox Files. He graduated from Columbia University and was a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of Economics where he earned an MSc in Media and Communications while working in the BBC Documentaries Department with Nick Fraser. His documentary in progress “SWAT Nation: The Rise of Paramilitary Policing in America” was invited into the 2000 IFP No Borders program and he has produced and directed a number of short films. Williams is also a widely published freelance writer and an editor/writer for The Brooklyn Rail, an award-winning monthly publication about politics, art, film and literature where he writes a column on issues in documentary film and has written extensively on New York City politics.

Peter Tooke (Editor)

Coming out of more than 15 years experience in film production, Peter began editing in the late 1990s. Prior work ranges from post supervisor to line-producer to location sound recordist for dozens of theatrical and network documentaries. Having mainly edited short documentaries until now, this is his first feature.

Sam Cullman (Associate Producer)

A cinematographer, director, and editor of documentaries, Sam has worked on a variety of projects which have aired on TV and screened in theaters across the US. Sam started his career in nonfiction filmmaking (and continues to work) at animated advocacy, a video production company for non-profits, which he founded in 2000. Since then, Sam has contributed to numerous theatrically released documentaries and shows that have aired on Biography, The Learning Channel, and WNET. Most recently, Sam shot scenes for 'Why We Fight' (Sundance 2005 Grand Jury Prize in documentary), and just finished work as a DP on 'King Corn', a documentary about the American diet, our food system, and the life of a single acre of corn in Iowa. A graduate of Brown University (1999), where he majored in Urban Studies, and the Visual Arts, Sam lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Shane Zarintash (Associate Producer)

Shane has had an extended career in documentary film production, from working on Barbara Kopple's feature documentary “Harlan County, USA” and Kopple's NBC special “Fallen Champ: the Mike Tyson Story” on which he was a Associate Producer to Leon Gast’s Academy-Award winning “When We Were Kings”, a documentary about Mohammed Ali. He has worked with K Video Productions on a variety of projects including supervising research on a feature film screenplay “Turncoats” and coordination on “Profits of War”, a film developed in collaboration with Institute of Media Analysis.

David Carbonara (Composer)

David Carbonara began his career as a music editor, and has worked with top composers such as Howard Shore and Rachel Portman since making his entrance into the film world in 1990. He scored his first film in 1994, for director David O. Russell, and is one of a very small number of composers to successfully juggle this dual-career. He has been music editor on numerous films including “Trees Lounge”, “Cop Land”, “Outside Providence” and “The Truth About Charlie”. He has composed original scores for feature films including “Spanking the Monkey”, “Fast Food Fast Women” and “The Guru”.

Michael Ratner (Executive Producer)

Michael Ratner is a world-renowned international human rights lawyer who is currently the president of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Among the many cases he has worked on, Michael acted as principal counsel in the successful suit to close the camp for HIV-positive Haitian refugees on Guantanamo Base, Cuba. More recently, he has challenged the constitutionality of “indefinite detention” and the restrictions on civil liberties as defined by the unfolding terms of a “permanent war.” He is the author or co-author of several books and numerous articles. He is also a lecturer at Columbia Law School and has been named the Trial Lawyer of the Year from the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice and received the Columbia Law School Public Interest Law Foundation Award and the North Star Community Frederick Douglass Award.