Letters from Baghdad

Sabine Krayenbühl is an award-winning filmmaker with over twenty theatrical documentaries and narrative features to her credit. She co-directed and edited the NEH-supported documentaries, Obsessed with Light and Letters from Baghdad. Her editing work includes Oscar and Independent Spirit Award nominated My Architect for which she received an American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Award nomination and the Emmy-winning The Hunt for Planet B. Additional credits include Mad Hot Ballroom, The Bridge, Picasso and Braque go to the Movies, produced by Martin Scorsese, Jennifer Fox’s Emmy nominated My Reincarnation, Salinger on which she consulted, HBO’s The Price of Everything and most recently, Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny and Monk in Pieces about boundary breaking artist Meredith Monk, which she also co-produced. Krayenbühl is a member of New York Women in Film and TV and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Zeva Oelbaum is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York State Council on the Arts, Women in Film Finishing Fund, Regina Scully’s Artemis Rising and Laurie Tisch’s Illumination Fund, among others. Oelbaum co-directed and produced Letters from Baghdad, about the remarkable archaeologist and explorer Gertrude Bell. Academy award-winner Tilda Swinton voiced and exec. produced the film and it was broadcast on PBS, BBC, and ARTE. Oelbaum also produced Ahead of Time, about the trailblazing journalist Ruth Gruber, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival before garnering six Best Documentary awards. It was broadcast on Showtime and PBS. Most recently, Oelbaum co-directed and co-produced Obsessed with Light about the wildly original American performer Loïe Fuller. The film is voiced by Tony and Emmy-winning actor, Cherry Jones, and was co-produced by ZDF/Germany in collaboration with ARTE/France. Oelbaum is a member of the Producer’s Guild, Women Impact Producers and New York Women in Film and TV.