Molly Bernstein
Director
Bernstein is the director and producer of Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay, a documentary that premiered at the New York Film Festival and received a wide theatrical release. The film was named one of Entertainment Weekly's top 10 films of 2013 and aired on the PBS series American Masters. Bernstein has had an extensive career as an editor with credits including the 2009 Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About, also featured on American Masters. She has recently produced and directed many short films with Particle Productions on various subjects such as contemporary artists and art collectors around the world for the James Cohan Gallery, VIP Art Fair and Christie's. Her latest documentary, An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Rosamond Purcell, premiered at the 2015 DOC NYC film festival.
Alan Edelstein
Producer
Edelstein received an Academy Award nomination for his 1985 documentary short “The Wizard of Strings,” a profile of the 1920s string instrumentalist and vaudeville star Roy Smeck. He is the producer of An Art That Nature Makes, and co-director and producer of Deceptive Practice. He has worked as a writer and producer for Nowak Associates, Great Projects Film Company, and Sundance Channel, among others. A journalist as well as filmmaker, he has written on arts and culture for publications including the New York Times, the Forward, and Transition, a journal of global culture published at Harvard University. He is a fellow of the Writers’ Institute at the Graduate Center of CUNY for 2016-17.
Philip Dolin
Executive Producer
Dolin has produced and directed over 100 films about art, architecture, dance, the environment and many other subjects. His clients include universities, non-profit organizations, art galleries, museums and a variety of businesses. He started out producing hip-hop videos in the early ‘90s for rap artists Salt-N-Pepa, MC Lyte, Hurby “Luv Bug” Azor and many others. He has a BA and MFA from Columbia University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Peru. He was a producer of Deceptive Practice: Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay, which was named one of the top ten films of 2013 by Entertainment Weekly.