Filmmakers


Joshua Tanzer
Producer
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Joshua Tanzer has worked in journalism for more than 20 years. Although he has done a lot of serious, high-minded work -- exposing racial discrimination and chemical spills in small-town New Jersey and creating interactive web features on BusinessWeek.com -- he is much better known to friends as one of the guys who writes the headlines in the New York Post. (Among his career highlights: "Martha Stewart stock falling like a bad soufflé," "Adults who were spanked often get tanked.")

Joshua graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in economics, and has worked for Business Week, the New York Post, the News Tribune and Home News in New Jersey, and The Oregonian. He speaks four languages well (English, French, German and Chinese) and three badly. He lives in the New York City area.



Nick Higgins
Director of Photography
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Nick Higgins grew up with an Italian mother and Scottish father between Scotland and Saudi Arabia. He now resides in LA with his wife, Kristina, and 2-year-old son, Finlay.

For the best part of the 1990s, Nick shot films clandestinely while being employed to sell GE's 747 aircraft engines out of the Hong Kong and Rio De Janeiro offices. The day his camera case outweighed his briefcase, it was clear that a paradigm shift in careers was inevitable. A couple of years at graduate school gave him the unusual claim of being the first Scotsman to have graduated with a Master's in Cinematography from the American Film Institute.

Nick is currently the Director of Photography for "Iraq for Sale; the War Profiteers," the latest documentary feature by Robert Greenwald ("Wal-Mart; the High Cost of Low Price," "Outfoxed"). Other independent feature documentary credits include "Hessians MC," about an aging group of hardcore outlaw bikers, and "Missing in LA," about a pair of young Israeli DJ's who were murdered "Pulp Fiction"-style when they became entangled in the drug world.

For most of the last year, Nick's been shooting vérité-style footage for two Discovery Network shows — TLC's "Little People Big World," about a family of dwarves on an Oregon farm, and the Discovery Channel's "Firehouse USA: Boston."



Philip Armand
Cinematographer
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Austrian-born Philip Armand woke up to his love of film after an eye-opening experience in Utah at the Sundance Film Festival. Since then Philip has created the television series "Battle of the Band" and is currently the Executive Director of the New York Short-Short Film Festival and accountable for its Education Outreach Program. An award-winning filmmaker, his work includes the documentary "The Art of Ambivalence" and the radio documentary series "Listen for Freedom." His current project is "American Healthcare" a feature documentary that explores how the rich, the poor, and the middle-class experience the American healthcare system.