As
our world has grown increasingly interconnected, mass media has
responded with ever faster news cycles and ever more compressed news
segments. Consequently, the lived experience of the events that
shape our world is lost amid the speed and indifference of the sound
bite and, lost along with it, our personal connection. HUMAN
FEATURES™ aims at conveying the tragedies, complexities, and injustices
of our world by putting a face on a story. We allow people to
share what has happened to them in their own words in intimate,
personal settings that frame their narratives.
The
HUMAN FEATURES film crew includes Jeffrey Wengrofsky, a professor in
the Humanities Program of New York University, author of thirty
articles on politics and human affairs, director of eight short
documentary films, and staff writer for Coilhouse magazine; Brian Wengrofsky, whose cinematography credits include A Lion’s Trail, the 2005 Emmy Award winner for documentary film, in addition to When the War is Over and The Mother’s House,
both of which aired on the Sundance Channel, and numerous other feature
films and television programs in the United States and Germany; and
David Kavanaugh, a lighting specialist, editor, and cameraman whose
credits include Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead and seventeen other feature films.