Cast and Crew - Camp Victory, Afghanistan

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Director, Carol Dysinger

carol Carol Dysinger has been a feature film and documentary editor for the past 25 years. Her editing credits include: the Emmy-nominated documentary film, Deadline (Sundance Film Festival; NBC 2004); Rain (Sundance Film Festival; Venice Film Festival); the Emmy-nominated documentary film, Punk; and Santitos (Sundance Film Festival).

Carol has served as a consultant for a variety of documentary films, feature films, and music videos. She also had a career as a screenwriter with scripts produced for 20th Century Fox, Disney, and HBO. Carol is a tenured Professor of Graduate Film and New Media at NYU Film School in the Tisch School of the Arts.

Producer, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte

jeff Jeff Levy-Hinte, president of Antidote Films in New York City, has recently completed several documentaries, including Soul Power, produced and directed by Levy-Hinte, and Dungeon Masters, directed by Kevin McAlester. Both Films premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival.

Levy-Hinte also produced the documentary film Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, directed by Marina Zenovich. Winner of the Documentary Editing Award at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, the film was released domestically by HBO and THINK Films, and internationally through The Weinstein Company and the BBC. Additional producing credits include: The Hawk is Dying (Sundance Film Festival, Cannes, 2006), The Last Winter, Mysterious Skin (Venice Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, 2004, Thirteen (Sundance Film Festival, 2003) and Laurel Canyon. Levy-Hinte edited the 1996 Academy Award-winning documentary, When We Were Kings; and he is also the Board Chair for the Independent Feature Project (IFP) of New York. He is currently preparing to produce The Kids Are All Right, written and to be directed by Lisa Cholodenko.

Producer, Dallas Brennan Rexer

dallas Dallas Brennan Rexer's documentary producing credits include the ITVS documentary, Election Day (SXSW, POV 2008), Arctic Son (Full Frame Film Festival, POV 2007), the Emmy-nominated documentary, Deadline (Sundance Film Festival; NBC 2004), Phil Bertelsen's Outside Looking in: Transracial Adoption in America (ITVS) and Katy Chevingy's Journey to the West: Chinese Medicine Today (Wellspring Media). She worked in multiple capacities on Our House (ITVS, directed by Meema Spadola).

She serves as a consulting producer, advisor, reviewer, writer, and judge with numerous institutions, film festivals, competitions, and production companies. She was a senior producer with Arts Engine/Big Mouth Productions from 1998-2007. Dallas is a 1997 Fulbright Scholar of media in Trinidad, West Indies.

Editor, Mary Manhardt

Mary Manhardt's editing credits include Racing Dreams (directed by Marshall Curry), Bronx Princess (IDFA 2008), American Teen (Sundance Film Festival 2008), the Academy Award-nominated documentary, Street Fight (Tribeca Film Festival, Hot Docs, 2005); and the Academy Award- and Emmy-nominated documentary, The Farm: Life Inside Angola Prison (Sundance Film Festival 1998).

She has served as an editing mentor for the IFP Documentary Rough Cut Lab in 2007 and 2008. Mary also has a Ph.D. in Classical Studies from Duke University.

Editor, Mary Lampson

Mary Lampson's editing credits include Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai (Hot Docs, Audience Award 200), Emile Norman: By His Own Design (Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Audience Award 2006), the Emmy-award winning documentary, A Lion House (Sundance Film Festival, Hot Docs, Audience Award 2004); and the Academy Award-winningfilm, Harlan County U.S.A.

She most recently served as a consultant for the documentary film, Trouble the Water (Sundance Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize, Full Frama Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize 2008). Mary served as a advisor for the Sundance Institute Documentary Editing and Story Lab from 2006-2008. From 1990 until 2002, she was the Director of the Production Department and Faculty Development Services for distance education program at the University of Maine.

General Fazil Ahmad Sayar

gensayar General Fazil Ahmad Sayar was the Chief of Staff and Brigadier General of the 207th Corps in Herat, Afghanistan. He entered the Afghan military at age 13, serving a total of 27 years. Sayar is a combat proven soldier. He is a two-star ranking general, educated at a military university, who previously commanded all Special Forces in Kabul. In addition to his extensive experience working with Afghan forces, he has worked with Russian Military Advisors in the 1980’s and more recently, the Italian Operational Mentor and Liaison Team (OMLT).
Sayar was born in the province of Parwan, and is of Tajik descent.

Colonel (R) Michael Shute

colshute Michael Shute is a retired U.S. Army Colonel and former Senior Staff Officer of the New Jersey National Guard. From February 2006 to June 2007, he served as the deputy commander and commander of the 207th Regional Security Advisory Command in Herat, Afghanistan. As the senior U.S. military officer responsible for the Western Afghanistan Area of Operations, he managed hundreds of personnel responsible for training one brigade of Afghan National Army soldiers. During his tour, he was awarded the Italian Commemorative Service Cross, the Spanish Meritorious Service Medal and Combat Action Badge.

Throughout his 31 years of military service, Col. (Ret) Shute worked extensively in the areas of Homeland Security operations, personnel management, project management, organizational mapping, and foreign military advising and training. Col. (Ret) Shute is now retired from service and resides in Salem, New Jersey with his wife of 29 years, Linda (Copeland) Shute. They have two sons and a daughter-in-law; Jeremy, James and Lorren.