DIRECTOR

Michael Apted made documentaries and feature films for over forty years. Among his globally recognized, award-winning documentaries are the UP SERIES (1964-2019), which followed the lives of 14 British people from the age of seven, revisiting them every 7 years; THE LONG WAY HOME; MOVING THE MOUNTAIN; INCIDENT AT OGLALA and THE POWER OF THE GAME. His movies include COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER (which received 7 Academy Award nominations and won Best Actress for Sissy Spacek); GORKY PARK; GORILLAS IN THE MIST; THUNDERHEART; NELL; the James Bond film THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH; ENIGMA; AMAZING GRACE, THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER; CHASING MAVERICKS and UNLOCKED. He also cast the HBO series ROME and directed the first three episodes and directed several episodes of RAY DONOVAN and MASTERS OF SEX for Showtime. In 2019, 63 UP was released theatrically. Michael was President of the Directors Guild of America for an unprecedented three terms, from 2003 through 2009.

PRODUCER / EPILOGUE CO-DIRECTOR

Steven is a producer-director who has been making documentaries for over 30 years about artists, activists and everyday heroes - from underground Soviet rockers, to a Senegalese rapper fighting female genital cutting, to cat rescuers in Brooklyn, and scientists racing to save the human microbiome. As a producer his work includes three feature docs in collaboration with Michael Apted, including THE LONG WAY HOME and MARRIED IN AMERICA. He created the International Emmy-award winning series BORN IN THE USSR producing the first film, AGE 7 IN THE USSR. Among his other producing credits are THE FURIOUS FORCE OF RHYMES; SARABAH (Movies That Matter Golden Butterfly award), and Heddy Honigmann’s 100 UP. His directing credits include TELL TCHAIKOVSKY THE NEWS; ROCK IN RUSSIA for MTV; the interactive documentary series VIS à VIS for PBS; THE CAT RESCUERS (with Rob Fruchtman), winner of the 2018 Hamptons International Film Festival animal rights award, and THE INVISIBLE EXINCTION (with Sarah Schenck). He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife, Helen Garrett.

EDITOR / EPILOGUE CO-DIRECTOR

Susanne’s over 20-year collaboration as editor with director Michael Apted produced such richly provocative films as: THE LONG WAY HOME; INCIDENT AT OGLALA; ME & ISAAC NEWTON; INSPIRATIONS; THE POWER OF THE GAME; MOVING THE MOUNTAIN.

Esteemed as "an aural and visual poet", Susanne’s most recent film as director/editor, FOLLOWING HARRY, joins the artist and activist Harry Belafonte, at the age of 84, as he embarks on an eleven-year journey to find out how to redirect oppression to oblivion. The film premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival. It’s a sequel to SING YOUR SONG, Susanne’s film about Harry Belafonte's earlier life as an artist and activist. It was chosen to open the U.S. Documentary Competition section of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was Shortlisted for an Oscar. It also garnered the NAACP Image Award.

Susanne is presently producing, directing, and editing THE HIDDEN DIARY OF DIAHANN CARROLL, a documentary film based on the secret diary found by her daughter shortly after her death. Diahann Carroll knew that every step she took to push back against established norms mattered and this documentary is a way to make sure history remembers her, not just for her glossy image, but for her complexity. The film is co-directed by Suzanne Kay and executive produced by Serena and Venus Williams.