2015 Double Exposure: Investigative Film Festival & Symposium | Page 42

SPEAKERS BIO EDWARD SNOWDEN is a former National Security Agency subcontractor who made headlines in 2013 when he leaked top secret information about NSA surveillance activities. RACHEL LOUISE SNYDER, an associate professor in the MFA creative writing program and the journalism program at American University, has published both nonfiction and fiction books and written for numerous national magazines and newspapers. She hosted the nationally syndicated global affairs series “Latitudes” on public radio, and her stories have aired on Marketplace and All Things Considered. DREW SULLIVAN founded the Center for Investigative Reporting in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2004 and served as its editor and first director. Today he directs the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Program, an organization he founded together with journalists from a dozen countries. He has also served on the board. DAVID FELIX SUTCLIFFE‘s film, (T)ERROR, co-directed with Lyric R. Cabral, debuted at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival where it won a Special Jury Prize, as well as the Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Full Frame Film Festival. (T)ERROR will be released in theatres in the fall of 2015, followed by a U.S. and international broadcast in early 2016. 42 InvestigativeFilmFestival.com