The Crew

Alia Yunis, director/producer, has worked on film and writing projects on five continents.  Alia spent many years in Los Angeles as a screenwriter and script analyst for companies such as Village Roadshow Pictures and Miramax.  Alia is a PEN Emerging Voices Fellow, has been a top ten finalist Zoetrope Screenwriting Awards and the recipient of a comedy-writing award from Warner Bros.  Her novel, The Night Counter (Random House 2010), was critically-acclaimed by the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, and several other publications.  Her fiction and nonfiction writings have appeared in numerous books, magazines and anthologies and have been translated into six languages. 

Jaime Estrada Torres, producer/editor, has edited films such as Biggie and Tupac (Nick Bromfield, 2002) and Tango Maestro (2005).  He was an Avid Film Products Specialist for Avid Europe, Avid Certified Instructor and Avid Instructor and Consultant for feature films using Avid Film Composer on projects such as: Bond's Tomorrow Never Dies; Lucas's The Empire Strikes Back; Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut; Spielberg-Hanks's Band of Brothers.  An instructor and the London Film School, Jaime has given numerous workshops on non-linear editing for documentaries and feature films in Europe, Asia, and Latin America and has been working as a freelance film editor since 1999 with wide experience supervising all the post-production stages to take film through to digital finishing.