Co-Director/ Executive Producer, BODY OF WAR Phil Donahue and the DONAHUE show have been honored with 20 Daytime Emmy Awards, including nine for Outstanding Host and a George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Journalism Award. Phil Donahue used the television talk show format he pioneered in 1967 to interview world leaders, celebrities, newsmakers and people from all walks of life.  For over 29 years, DONAHUE examined human behavior, focused national debates on political and social issues and has provided a democratic forum for presidential candidates. The format he introduced on November 6, 1967, as The Phil Donahue Show on WLWD-TV in Dayton, Ohio, launched the first audience participation television talk show and changed the face of American daytime television.  For his outstanding contribution to television and American culture, Mr. Donahue was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame on November 20, 1993. As host of DONAHUE, Mr. Donahue has presided over nearly 7,000 one-hour daily shows, many on-location broadcasts and several historic broadcasts from Russia. Co-Director/ Co-Producer/ Cinematographer, BODY OF WAR For almost two decades Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellow Ellen Spiro has created award-winning and imaginative documentaries, including Diana's Hair Ego, Greetings From Out Here, Roam Sweet Home, Atomic Ed & the Black Hole, Are the Kids Alright? (with Karen Bernstein) TROOP 15OO (with Karen Bernstein) and, now, Body of War (with Phil Donahue). Spiro is a two-time recipient of the Rockefeller fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Bellagio Residency Fellowship and winner of an Emmy Award for Are the Kids Alright?. Spiro's films have been shown in film festivals and broadcast on television worldwide on PBS, HBO, BBC, CBC (Canada) and NHK (Japan). Spiro's works are housed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in the Peabody Collection of the Museum of Television and Radio. Her films have pushed the boundaries of the documentary form, thriving both in the art world and in television and film festival venues. The Boston Globe called Spiro's first documentary, Diana's Hair Ego, a "terrific portrait of a remarkable woman" and it won the Motion Picture Society's Documentary Achievement Award. Greetings From Out Here was invited to the Sundance Film Festival and won first prize in the USA Film Festival. Roam Sweet Home, which innovatively challenged stereotypes about aging, was presented with the National Media Owl Award by Gene Siskel. Atomic Ed & the Black Hole won the Best Documentary Short at the South by Southwest Film Festival. Are the Kids Alright? exploded the invisibility of the childrens mental health crisis and won an Emmy Award. Troop 1500 was broadcast nationally on Independent Lens (PBS) and won multiple film festival awards. Body of War (with Phil Donahue) is the latest in a history of making politically provocative and inventive films. Spiro started Mobilus Media with Karen Bernstein in 2000. Spiro is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Texas in Austin. Original Songs, BODY OF WAR Pearl Jam lead singer and lyricist Eddie Vedder is a rock and roll visionary who brought the radical Seattle sound of'90s alternative rock into the mainstream, sometimes bucking traditional tides to it. Pearl Jam has sold nearly 60 million albums worldwide, including millions of live concert bootlegs. The band has released 8 studio records, 2 live records, a double-disc b-sides record, a double-disc greatest hits record, and most recently a 7-disk live box set entitled "Pearl Jam: Live at the Gorge 05/06". Editor, BODY OF WAR Bernadine Colish has edited both television and independent documentaries. She recently edited Muslims for PBS Frontline, Ella Fitzgerald: Something To Live For, a PBS American Masters documentary, The Buffalo War, Winner, Golden Gate Award, Best Environmental Film in the San Francisco International Film Festival, Beautopia, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and A Touch of Greatness, was shown on PBS and nominated for an Emmy in 2006. Her last project Absolute Wilson premiered at the Berlin Film Festival 2006. Co-Producer, BODY OF WAR Emmy and Grammy award-winning producer Karen Bernstein has spent over 20 years working for and with some of the most prestigious producer/ directors in the documentary field, including Susan Lacy (PBS American Masters), Charlotte Zwerin (PBS American Masters), Helen Whitney (PBS American Masters and Frontline), Henry Hampton (Blackside), Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue (Body of War). She has most recently produced YA BASTA! about kidnappings in Mexico (Matinee Productions) and Troop 1500 which follows a unique Girl Scout troop whose mothers are incarcerated in Texas (Mobilus Media). Troop 1500 toured film festivals and other venues throughout the country and received an audience award at SXSW in Texas, and a Gracie Award in 2007. PBS' Independent Lens broadcast the documentary in March of 2006. With support from the Hogg Foundation, Houston Endowment, and Meadows Foundation, Are The Kids Alright?, stories about children's mental health in Texas, was broadcast on PBS in June of 2004, repeated in 2005. In her role as a series producer for American Masters and producer of Ella Fitzgerald - Something To Live For (1999), Bernstein received a series Emmy award for Outstanding Non-fiction Series. She also won a Grammy award for producing Lou Reed - Rock and Roll Heart (1998). She recently served as producer of American Masters/Juilliard (2002) and American Masters/Clint Eastwood (2000). Her work has been screened at over 100 international film festivals including Sundance and Berlin. At American Masters she was responsible for pre-production, production and post-production on other feature-length biographies: Richard Avedon, Lena Horne. In addition she advised on over 20 biographical portraits, including those Rod Serling, Leonard Bernstein, Joseph Papp, Alfred Steiglitz. Premium cable network credits include Ellen Spiro's documentary, Atomic Ed & The Black Hole for HBO's Cinemax- Reel Life and, The Wrestling Party, a short documentary for HBO. At the Sundance Channel, Karen Bernstein produced and directed a documentary portrait of the L.A. based filmmaker, Mike Mills, entitled Meet Mike Mills (2002), and a short profile of the filmmaker, Eugene Jarecki, for the premiere of Doc Day. With the high definition satellite TV series, Gallery HD, she has just finished documentaries about two Texas artists and groups, Julie Speed and the innovative gallery, Ballroom Marfa. Throughout 2003, she was the Producer for Evan Smith's Texas Monthly Talks, a television series out of KLRU in Austin. Her short film on Elizabeth Streb (PopACTION) , dancer and choreographer, was awarded a New York State Council on the Arts grant. Bernstein has produced radio documentaries for NPR's This American Life, ("Mob Mentality", May, 2000), and for Connecticut Public Radio. Original Music, BODY OF WAR Jeff Layton's music can be heard on many of America’s television networks such as PBS, Discovery, ESPN, Court TV, ABC, & Comedy Central as well as on advertisements for such household names as Coca Cola, BMW, and United Airlines. He has also collaborated with William M. Hoffman on two musical-plays: Cyberian Nights and Shoe Palace Murray. Other recent projects include composing the image and identity music for the Gallery HD satellite channel as well as composing the score for Operation Lysistrata, a documentary produced and directed by Michael Patrick Kelly.