Goodstein is an award-winning filmmaker working in the industry as a writer, producer, and director for over 25 years. Her areas of concentration are independent Jewish-themed, Holocaust-oriented, and social justice films. Among her works are the Academy Award shortlisted and Berlin Film Festival honored personal holocaust documentary Voices From the Attic, which won 26 awards and prizes, and is about her family’s survival during WWII, hiding in an attic. Voices was recently named by the Berlin Film Festival as “one of the twenty best Holocaust films of the 20th century,” and picked up by WNET Arts for redistribution on Public television. In 2016, Goodstein produced a sequel short to Voices, called Echoes From The Attic, as a companion piece to the original film. Among her other works, Goodstein produced and directed the narrative film Mighty Fine with Chazz Palminteri and Andie MacDowell, released by Lionsgate and awarded first prize at Toronto’s Female Eye Film Festival. She produced the documentary pilot “FU- Georgia” about the plight of undocumented immigrant students in the South today, picked up by ABC last year. She co-produced the award-winning short “Black” in 2020. She is the Executive Producer on Emma Francis-Snyder’s current film Anatomy of a Life (in production). Goodstein also recently consulted on Snyder’s documentary, Takeover, which was an Academy Award shortlisted film last year. In the past, Goodstein co-wrote the Emmy award-winning film Saying Kaddish for ABC. She produced and directed the TV pilot The Bubbies for NBC. She executive-produced the film Dirk and Betty featuring Marissa Tomei. Before producing her own films, Goodstein worked as a screenwriter and development executive for Siren Pictures. She graduated from Brown University and Columbia Film School with honors. debbiegoodstein.com

Jonathan Silverstein is an award winning director and producer. As Artistic Director at Keen Company (2012-2025), Jonathan produced and directed acclaimed productions such as the world premiere of All the World’s a Stage by Adam Gwon (Off Broadway Alliance Award), the site specific production of Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking starring Kathleen Chalfant (also Long Wharf, Theatre Aspen, and Bay Street Theater), 1993 by Kenny Finkle, tick, tick...BOOM! (Drama Desk nomination), A Walk in the Woods starring Kathleen Chalfant, Travels with my Aunt, Middle of the Night by Paddy Chayefsky, and many others. Jonathan also directed the award winning Off Broadway world premiere of Jon Marans’ The Temperamentals produced by Daryl Roth (Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble). Other Off Broadway credits include revivals of Lemon Sky, The Dining Room (Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Director; Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble), and Tea and Sympathy. Regional: Long Wharf, Huntington, Old Globe, Merrimack Rep, Buck’s County, Dorset, Cape Rep, Monmouth, and Sledgehammer. Jonathan teaches Directing at The Tepper Semester/Syracuse University and an ongoing scene study class in Manhattan. MFA, UCSD, Drama League fellow. Member, SDC. jonnysilver.com