ADVISORS
The filmmakers are grateful to the generosity of the following experts, who offered interviews, background, access, and information vital to the making of the film, and who are partnering in the ongoing work of impact and outreach:
SIMON ADAMS
President and CEO of the Center for Victims of Torture
SIMON ADAMS is President and CEO of the Center for Victims of Torture, the largest international organization that treats survivors and advocates for an end to torture worldwide. Adams lends to the project firsthand knowledge and insights into the political, historical and regional context for many of the film's survivors.
BRUNO CABANES
Associate Professor in the History Department of Yale University
BRUNO CABANES is an Associate Professor in the History Department of Yale University. He connects some of the most significant traumas of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to the current conflicts in the global community.
ARIEL DORFMAN
Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, human rights activist
ARIEL DORFMAN is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, human rights activist, and Professor of Literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University. He has written extensively about torture and authored the world-renowned play "Death and the Maiden."
MARY FABRI
Psy.D. is the former Senior Director of Torture Treatment Services
MARY FABRI, Psy.D. is the former Senior Director of Torture Treatment Services and International Training at the Heartland Alliance Marjorie Kovier Center.
CHARLES FRIED
Teacher at Harvard Law School since 1961
CHARLES FRIED has been teaching at Harvard Law School since 1961. His scholarly and teaching interests focus on the connection between normative theory and the concrete institutions of public and private law.
GREGORY FRIED
Chair of the Philosophy Department at Suffolk University
GREGORY FRIED is the Chair of the Philosophy Department at Suffolk University. He founded a new interdisciplinary master's program that integrates the study of ethical and political questions in the philosophical tradition with the techniques and politics of policy analysis and implementation.
KAREN L. HANSCOM Ph.D
Executive Director of Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma
KAREN L. HANSCOM Ph.D. is the Executive Director of Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma and received the International Humanitarian of the Year Award from the American Psychological Association. She provides the film with a national and international perspective.
OONA A. HATHAWAY
Professor of International Law, and Director of the Center for Global Legal Challenges at Yale Law School
OONA A. HATHAWAY is a Professor of International Law, and Director of the Center for Global Legal Challenges at Yale Law School. She focuses on the intersection of domestic and international, and her expertise untangles the rich and complex web of law and healing.
Worked primarily in war zones and post-conflict areas
ETELLE HIGONNET
ETELLE HIGONNET has worked primarily in war zones and post-conflict areas. She has been associated with Human Rights Watch, the International Human Rights Law Institute, Amnesty, UNICEF, Open Society, and the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center.
M. JAN HOLTON
Associate Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at the Yale Divinity Schoo
M. JAN HOLTON is Associate Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at the Yale Divinity School, whose research, broadly speaking, uses ethnographic methodology to investigate issues of pastoral care in conflict and post-conflict disaster zones.
KWAME KARIKARI
Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa
KWAME KARIKARI is the Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa, which engages in media law reform, legal defense of journalists, press freedom monitoring, and protection for persecuted journalists. He is a Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Ghana
JUAN E. MENDEZ
Visiting Professor of Law at the American University, Washington College of Law
JUAN E. MENDEZ is a Visiting Professor of Law at the American University, Washington College of Law. He was a UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and Special Advisor on Prevention to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
Teaching and scholarship focus mainly on immigration and refugee law
LORI A. NESSEL
LORI A. NESSELL's teaching and scholarship focus mainly on immigration and refugee law and policy, international human rights, the rule of law, and access to justice. She is a Professor of Law and the Director of Seton Hall University School of Law's Center for Social Justice Clinic.
MANFRED NOWAK
Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights
MANFRED NOWAK is the Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights in Vienna and, Professor for International Human Rights Protection at the University of Vienna. He served as a UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment.
EDWARD PETERS
Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania
EDWARD PETERS is a Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania whose chief interests are political and constitutional history, aspects of crime and punishment, and the idea of curiosity and the limits of intellectual inquiry.
ROBERT AF THURMAN
Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies
ROBERT AF THURMAN is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University; President of the Tibet House US, and President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies.
PATRICK VINCK, Ph.D.
Research Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health
PATRICK VINCK, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Faculty with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. He co-founded the Initiative for Vulnerable Populations at U.C. Berkeley's Human Rights Center.