Spring 2011 Mentors

Annie Heringer

Annie Heringer has produced and directed programming for PBS, National Geographic, the History Channel and the Discovery Channel, among others. Her first documentary, March Time March, profiles three African-American youth drill teams. It received the 1999 Women In Film Finishing Fund Grant, premiered at the LA Freewaves Festival and was distributed by the National Educational Telecommunications Association to various PBS stations. In 2006, Annie received an Emmy for her research work on Voices of Civil Rights, a documentary for the History Channel that drew stories from the Civil Rights Era from a collection of oral histories housed at the Library of Congress.

Rosanne Limoncelli

Rosanne Limoncelli was born in Middletown, Connecticut. She is the Director of Production for Film and New Media at the Kanbar Institute, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She received her BFA from the Department of Film & TV at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and her PhD in Teaching Reading, Writing, and Media from NYU's Steinhardt School. Dr. Limoncelli has been teaching writing and filmmaking to students and professors since 1989, and has served as a consultant in the area of teacher education to high schools, colleges and universities.

Ted Gesing

Ted Gesing is a producer and director of non-fiction media. For the last four years, Ted has principally devoted his efforts to Frontline, the distinguished current affairs documentary series on PBS. He has produced four films with veteran Frontline producer Ofra Bikel. In 2010, Ted co-produced The Confessions, an investigation of a shocking false confession case in Norfolk, Virginia. He field-produced three other films with Bikel: When Kids Get Life in 2007, The Hugo Chavez Show in 2008, and Close to Home in 2009. Ted has also produced and reported radio pieces for This American Life and All Things Considered. Ted's 2003 documentary short film Nutria, about the swamp rats of Louisiana, won awards at South by Southwest, Ann Arbor and Chicago International Film Festivals in 2003. He has served as associate producer for Josh Aronson (Beautiful Daughters), Jesse Moss (The Investigators for Court TV) and served as production manager on Nanette Burstein's American Teen. Before working as a producer, Ted worked as a freelance sound recordist for TV and independent films. In 2004, Ted moved to Brooklyn from Austin, Texas, where he earned his MFA in film production from The University of Texas. Ted grew up in Andover, Mass where he attended Phillips Academy. He earned his BA in English Literature at Yale University.

Yoni Brook

Yoni Brook is a film director and cinematographer. He recently spent two months in Kashmir shooting VALLEY OF SAINTS, a feature fiction film directed by Musa Syeed. He regularly shoots interviews with personalities ranging from the Dalai Lama to Willie Nelson. His recent film, BRONX PRINCESS, about a teenager reuniting with her father, a chief in Ghana, broadcast nationally on PBS's POV series in September 2009. The film premiered at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and at the Berlinale. Brook's photography at the New York Times and the Washington Post received the field's highest honors at the Pictures of the Year International and Best of Photojournalism competitions. He was named the national College Photographer of the Year by the Missouri School of Journalism and was the youngest ever to be selected for Photo District News' "30 Photographers to Watch". Brook is a 2004 alumnus of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Film & Television Department. He was selected to attend the CPB/PBS Producer's Academy at WGBH and the Berlinale Talent Campus.