Creative Team

Led by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Nina Rosenblum and award-winning writer/producer Daniel Allentuck, the team behind They Fight with Cameras brings decades of experience in documentary storytelling, historical research, and visual craftsmanship.

From the powerful narration of Liev Schreiber to the richly textured editing, sound, and music by seasoned artists including Russell Greene and Marcus Loeber, this is a collaboration grounded in both personal legacy and professional excellence. With deep archival knowledge and a shared commitment to truth, empathy, and historical accuracy, the team honors the legacy of Walter Rosenblum and all who fight with cameras.

Producer/Director

NIna Rosenblum

Nina Rosenblum is an Academy award-nominated producer and director of documentary films and television and President of Daedalus Productions, Inc., a not-for-profit production company based in New York City. She has produced and directed documentaries for PBS, HBO, TBS, NY TIMES Television, SHOWTIME, and segments for ABC, and NBC. Daedalus' co-production partners include Channel Four/UK; WDR/Germany; La Sept/France and SBS/Australia and Canal +/Spain. Rosenblum is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Directors Guild of America, Women in Film and Television, and the International Documentary Association. Her feature documentary films include AMERICA AND LEWIS HINE (NEH, PBS broadcast, New York Film Festival premiere), LIBERATORS: FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS IN World War II (Academy Award nomination Best Feature Documentary, LINKS Sojourner Truth Award, IDA Distinguished Achievement Award), WALTER ROSENBLUM: IN SEARCH OF PITT STREET (President’s Award, Columbus Film Festival) JIMI AND SLY: THE SKIN I’M IN (New York Times/Showtime), LOCK-UP: THE PRISONERS OF RIKER’S ISLAND (HBO) ZAHIRA, LA QUE FLORECE (Canal+ Spain), and ORDINARY MIRACLES: THE PHOTO LEAGUE’S NEW YORK (Van Gogh Award, Best Documentary, Amsterdam Film Festival). Retrospectives of her films have been held in Italy and Spain.

Walter and Nina Rosenblum

Producer/Director/Writer

Daniel Allentuck

Daniel Allentuck is an award-winning writer and producer and co-founder of Daedalus Productions, Inc. In collaboration with his partner, Nina Rosenblum, he has devoted his 40-year career to creating documentary films about art, social photography, and American social history. Several of his films, including AMERICA AND LEWIS HINE, and LIBERATORS: FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS IN WORLD WAR II (Academy Award nomination for Best Feature Documentary) have been broadcast nationally on PBS and exhibited theatrically in New York and Los Angeles, and at film festivals in the U.S and Europe. ORDINARY MIRACLES: THE PHOTO LEAGUE’S NEW YORK (2012) which he wrote and co-directed, won the Van Gogh Award for Best Documentary at the Amsterdam Film Festival. His essays and articles have been published in the IDA Journal (Documentary Magazine), Lies of Our Times, One Last Lunch (Abrams Press-2020) and They FIght With Cameras: Walter Rosenblum in World War II from D-Day to Dachau (Edizioni Postcart-2014). He is a member of the Independent Documentary Association and has a B.A. degree in English and Comparative Literature from New York University. He is the son of actress Maureen Stapleton.

Narrator

Liev Schreiber

Liev Schreiber is an actor, writer and director who has had leading roles in films, television, and on Broadway. He has narrated numerous documentary films for PBS, HBO, and the National Geographic Channel. His performance as Father Flynn in the recent Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley's play DOUBT earned Schreiber his fourth TONY award nomination. Schreiber is a co-founder of BlueCheck Ukraine and an ambassador for President Zelinsky's fund United 24. To date, BlueCheck has raised and distributed more than $4.5 million to frontline organizations that provide food, water, shelter, medical supplies and equipment, in addition to evacuating and providing care and psychological support for 20,000 Ukrainian children orphaned by the war.

Photo: © Alex Radomskiy

Composer

Marcus Loeber

Photo: © Anatole Kotte

German-born composer Marcus Loeber was introduced to music at the age of five. From six onwards he received classical piano training and began writing his own songs. In addition to studying the canon of classical musical works, he came into early contact with music from a wide variety of sources. Besides learning the piano, he also received percussion lessons. As a teenager he began to improvise extensively which today gives him the ability to free associate at the keyboard for hours on end. Ten years in various bands were followed by a solo career that continues to this day. Since 1992 he has worked as a commissioned composer for films, documentaries, and commercials. He has performed more than 1,500 public concerts in Europe, the USA, and Japan. He is a voting member of the German GEMA and the SUISA in Switzerland. From 2009-2016 he was a member of the Board of the German Composers Club.

Contributing Producer/Editor

Russell Greene

Russell Greene’s more than 20 edited films have appeared in top US and international festivals including Sundance, Venice, Telluride, New York, SXSW, Toronto, Tribeca, IDFA, and Full Frame, aired on national television (HBO, PBS, Netflix, Hulu, CNN) and have been screened in theaters worldwide. The average rottentomatoes.com score for his films as lead editor is 96%.
Greene’s feature film credits as editor include: Forever Endeavor, South To Black Power, The Invisible Extinction (Also as Producer), The Automat (Also as Producer; Four Critics’ Choice Awards Nominations), Take Your Pills 2, Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes, And We Go Green, Harold Prince: The Director’s Life, Blue Note Records: Beyond The Notes, The Witness (Also as Writer; Emmy and Critics’ Choice Award nominee; Academy Award Shortlist), Tribal Justice, Famous Nathan, Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction, Ordinary Miracles: The Photo League’s New York, and A Fine Line. Other Editorial credits include: Stolen Youth: Inside the Sarah Lawrence Cult; Naomi Osaka, The Case Against Adnan Syed (Emmy Award nominee), Newtown (Critics’ Choice nominee, Peabody Award Winner), What’s on Your Plate? and Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened. Assistant Editor credits include the Academy Award Nominated Nerakhoon: The Betrayal (2008) and the Sundance award winning Patti Smith: Dream of Life (2008).

Historical Consultant

James Holland

James Holland is an English historian and broadcaster and the author of over two dozen books about the Second World War, including Normandy ’44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France (2019). He regularly appears on television and radio and has written and presented the BAFTA shortlisted documentaries Battle of Britain and Dam Busters for the BBC among others. He is the co-founder, co-chair, and program director of the annual Chalke Valley History Festival, which is the largest festival dedicated entirely to history in the UK. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of both the British Commission for Military History and the Guild of Battlefield Guides. He has his own collection at the Imperial War Museum. He was educated at Chafyn Grove School, Salisbury, and King’s School, Bruton. He attained a BA degree in history from St Chad’s College, Durham.

Historical Consultant

Jennifer Putnam

Dr. Jennifer Putnam was formerly Research Historian at the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy at the National WWII Museum. She earned her PhD in History from the University of London, where she studied prisoner graffiti in Nazi camps. Her research focuses on Briefaktion, a forced letter-writing campaign that masked the true nature of concentration and death camps. Her work has appeared in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, with upcoming features in edited volumes and a London photo exhibition. She has held fellowships with DPAA and EHRI, and previously worked as a translator, editor, and researcher. Dr. Putnam holds additional degrees in Linguistics (MPhil, Trinity College Dublin) and Contemporary History and Politics (MA, University of London), and serves on the Art Deco Society UK board and the Challenging Research Network planning committee.

Interview with Walter Rosenblum

The USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education was founded in 1994 by filmmaker Steven Spielberg after completing Schindler’s List, with the mission to record and preserve the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Today, it houses one of the world’s largest digital collections of video interviews from survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides. Through education, research, and digital technology, the institute fosters empathy, combats hate, and promotes human dignity by making these stories accessible to future generations.

Voice of Walter Rosenblum

Max Samuels

Actor and voice-over artist Max Samuels’s New York stage work includes plays at the New Ohio, Urban Stages, HERE, The Tank, the Robert Moss, and outdoors with NY Shakespeare Exchange. Regional theatre: The John Drew at Guild Hall, Portland Stage, Northern Stage, LongHouse Reserve, and The New London Barn Playhouse. Upcoming Film: The Floaters & Coronation Day. TV: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Max has a B.A degree (summa cum laude) from Dartmouth College and a M.A. from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).

After FX

Thomas Curtis

Thomas Curtis is a Motion Graphics artist and designer whose work ranges from the Annenberg Foundation's fully animated Science Works film Ozone (2016), Mission Possible (National Geographic Channel, 2021) about the creation of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, to Right to Offend: The Black Comedy Revolution (A&E, 2022). Recent projects include Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (HBO) Amend (Netflix, 2021), Divisible/Indivisible (Spectrum, 2020), How to Fix an Election (MSNBC, 2019), and Sasha Velour's Nightgowns (Quibi, now Roku, 2019).

Sound Mixer

Dominic Bartolini

Dominic Bartolini is a New York-based re-recording mixer and sound designer with more than two decades of experience shaping sound across a wide range of media. His work includes feature-length and short-form documentaries that have screened at major international film festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, and Berlinale. His broadcast credits include documentary programming for PBS, NHK, and The History Channel, along with a wide range of unscripted series and commercial campaigns. He brings an ear for detail and a deep understanding of how sound supports story, emotion, and atmosphere.

Archival Film and Photo Specialist

Elisabeth M. Hartjens

Elisabeth M. Hartjens, CEO of Imagefinders, Inc., is an award-winning archival film, photo, and audio researcher with a background in political science and art history. For over 25 years, she has accessed material in Washington, DC and archives worldwide. Her WWII documentary credits include PBS’s The War by Ken Burns, Apocalypse (CC&C/France2), and many productions for ZDF and ARD. She worked on Apocalypse WWI (2012–13), The Cold Blue (2018), and produced Apocalypse 45 (2020), a feature using remastered WWII color footage. She has also contributed to museum installations, including the US Marine Corps Museum in Quantico, VA.

Sound Designer

Margaret Crimmins

Having worked on over fifty documentary films, two-time Emmy-nominated sound editor/designer Margaret Crimmins is widely recognized as one of the industry’s top professionals. Her past collaborators include Alex Gibney, Julia Reichert, Stanley Nelson, Susan Lacey, Rory Kennedy, Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson. Her most recent credit, Obsessed with Light (2023), was directed by Sabine Krayenbuhl and Zeva Oelbaum. Seven of the films she has worked on have received Academy Award nominations, and one, Alex Gibney’s Taxi to the Dark Side, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (2008).