Maragaret Loescher
writer_director_producer
Born and brought up in South Bend, Indiana, Margaret and her family moved to England during her school years. Margaret was trained as an Anthropologist and received her BA degree from Cambridge University. She then went on to complete a Masters at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, Manchester University. Since then, she has trained on the Advanced Programme at the National Film and Television School, U.K. and has been making films independently in New York City, London and, most recently, Norwich. Pulled from the Rubble is her first feature documentary.

Television credits include, directing an ABC Nightline 15 minute news piece about the bombing of the United Nations in Baghdad . This aired in late August, marking the anniversary of the bomb, and has recently been nominated for an Emmy Award. Margaret is currently directing three short documentaries for the series ‘3 Minute Wonders’for Channel 4.

Independent films include, Piece of Me, a documentary about the novelist Zadie Smith, that premiered at the Corner House Cinema, Manchester and screened in New York City; A Camera at the Addy, a short documentary about an inner city playground. Margaret has also been director of photography, camera-person, sound recordist and researcher on a number of documentary projects. She also teaches camera workshops .

Margaret has her own company, Beguiled Eye Productions . She is currently working in collaboration with Fulcrum TV on her second feature documentary about Burmese refugees in Thailand. Margaret hopes to continue touring with Pulled from the Rubble , taking it to University, hospital and conferences audiences once she has finished the festival tour.

Daniel J. Chalfen
co-producer
Daniel J. Chalfen's recent producing credits include the highly acclaimed "39 Pounds of Love" (in association with HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films; "Pulled from the Rubble" (Co-Producer); the ground-breaking six-episode Israeli-Palestinian documentary series "Ordinary People" (screened in festivals and broadcast worldwide); and the award-winning short film "The Mail Gaze" (showcased at the Cannes Film Festival). His earlier documentary credits include "Paths" (co-producer and writer); "Cultural Safari"(Executive Producer), and "Dance the Wild Side" (Production Manager). He has worked in positions including Producer, Line Producer, Location Producer and Production Manager on travel series, behind-the-scenes shows, and news and current affairs programs and has consulted on films as diverse as "A Shadowed Gaze," Willy Holt's Holocaust story; "Gosa-Voyage," following the immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel; and "Talekeepers," an animated feature film.

Originally from London, England, Chalfen has lived in Jerusalem and Los Angeles and is currently based in New York. His company, raDiCal media ltd., was founded with a vision of giving voices to the unheard and images to the unseen. raDiCal media produces and consults for provocative, compelling, socially conscious, and visually powerful films. Chalfen is currently in-production on the feature documentary “Dear Mr. President”, following six Israeli and Palestinian teenage girls taking a road trip across the USA, and is developing a television series about astonishing, unexpected cultural and social phenomenon in countries in the Middle East.

Chalfen worked as a Journalist before moving into the world of filmmaking. He is a graduate of UCLA's School of Cinema, Television, and Theater, Los Angeles, (Professional Certificate in Producing); the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (MA in Israeli Politics and Society); and the University of Leeds, England (BA Hons) Politics and Religious Studies). He is a Member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)

daniel@pulledfromtherubble.com

Barbara Zosel
editor
Barbara’s career in film started in her home town, Weinheim, in Germany. After working as a production manager on corporate and medical videos for 16 months, she travelled to Maine, USA to do a three-month course covering all aspects of filmmaking. It was during this time she discovered her talent for editing.

Barbara continued her film quest in London at the National Film and Television School where she studied editing for three years. Her graduation film Nocturnal, was shown at Cannes, and Rachel and the Red Orchestra won the audience award at the Imperial War Museum film festival.

Since graduating in 1999, Barbara has edited numerous documentary programmes for BBC, Channel 4, five, National Geographic and others, as well as independent documentaries. Recent fiction films include the acclaimed Seafood, part of the UK Film Council’s Digital Shorts scheme,
and An Indiscreet Journey, a film based on the life and writings of Katherine Mansfield.

Annemarie Lean-Vercoe
cinematographer
Annemarie studied cinematography at the National film and Television School. Whist at the National film School she was the Freddie Francis Scholar, and won 1st Prize in her first year for Cinematography in the Kodak Student Commercial Competition, and also won 3rd prize in her second year.

Since leaving the course in 2002 she has been shooting short films, promos and working on documentaries, which have taken her to Africa, New York and Europe. Annemarie has also worked as a camera operator for the director Michael Winterbottom on Code 046 and Seven Songs, as well as some television work.

Many films that Annemarie has been involved in have been shown at festivals all over the world, including the documentary After Years of Walking, a film that addresses Rwanda’s post genocide state of affairs, which was screened at the West Hollywood Amnesty film festival in May 2004 and at Sheffield and Amsterdam in 2003. Two fiction films that Annemarie shot (Job Street and Lost and Found) were included in the six short-listed for the Turner Classic Movie prize at the 2003 London Film festival. Lost and Found was also in the shorts section of the festival.

Peter Lambert
assembly editor
Peter Lambert graduated from Manchester University in 1999 with a first in Drama. He then worked for two years in New York and London, first in documentary production and then as a junior editor at Carlton Television. Peter joined the National Film & Television School as an editing student in 2002. As well as cutting numerous shorts at the film school, he spent the summer of his second year as an editing trainee on the feature film Love Actually. Since leaving in January 2004, Peter has worked as a freelance editor in documentary, fiction and animation.

Films he has edited include Brand Spanking which won the McLaren Award for Animation, Edinburgh International Film Festival 2004; Le Pris Entente Cordiale (Audience choice for best short film) - British Film Festival in Dinard; and Best animation, International Festival of Film Art in Bulgaria. He edited Promised Land which was aired on BBC4 and was part of the official selection at Edinburgh International Film Festival. He also edited Playing Dead which was selected by Cannes, London, Montreal and Kiev film festivals. It won the Special Jury Prize at Lucania Film Festival, Italy. He was editor of Streets, Official Selection, Venice Film Festival