KIEF DAVIDSON, Director - Producer - Editor

Kief Davidson was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He began his filmmaking career in 1993 as editor on the Academy Award-nominated documentary, “Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann.”   He is the recipient of two Emmy nominations for his work with National Geographic and on the journalistic film “What's News?”, he earned an International Monitor Award for Best Editing. 

In 1997 Kief turned his direction to writing and directing the dark comedy, “Minor Details”, an independent feature film starring Peter Sarsgaard. Since then, he has directed and produced documentaries for The Discovery Channel, ABC News, PBS, and A&E. Additionally, he directed a Public Service Announcement on racial tolerance for National Geographic, for which he won the Best PSA Award at Promax/BDA and an International Monitor award. His documentary feature directorial debut, The Devil’s Miner is his first feature length documentary as a director.

RICHARD LADKANI, Director - Producer - Cinematographer

Richard Ladkan’s award-winning skills as director and cameraman have produced documentaries on topics ranging from wildlife in “Encounters With the Great White Shark, to political  films like “Escape Over The Himalayas” a film about Tibetan refugee children that won 15 international awards. Richard has as a cinematographer on big-budget historical documentaries involving large-scale reenactments as well as character- driven personal stories shot on location in Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Mongolia. A 20-part series titled “Monasteries of the Danube River” earned him the Austrian cinematography award for best picture. Richard prefers to be the cinematographer on the films he directs as often as possible. The Devil’s Miner is his first feature length documentary as a director.

LEONARDO HEIBLUM & ANDRES SOLIS, Composers

Since 1993, Leonardo Heiblum and Andres Solis have composed, recorded and produced music for a host of different projects, encompassing feature films, documentaries, advertising, dance and theater. As composers, feature credits include Joshua Marston’s “Maria Full of Grace”, Salma Hayak’s, “The Maldinado Miracle”, Eva Lopez’s “De que Phe Lado Estas”. Leonardo was also music supervisor for Julie Taymor’s, “Frida”. Leonardo and Andres co-own Audioflot, a state of the art recording studio in Mexico City.