Author/Co-Director:
Arjun Singh Sethi
Producer/Co-Director:
Harry Gantz
Arjun Singh Sethi is a human rights lawyer, community activist, author, conservationist, and law professor. He works closely with Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and Sikh communities and advocates for racial justice, equity, and social change at the local and international levels.
In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, Arjun traveled the country and met with a diversity of people and documented the hate they experienced during the campaign and after inauguration. American Hate: Survivors Speak Out was released in August 2018 and named an NPR Best Book of the Year. Arjun holds faculty appointments at Georgetown University Law Center and Vanderbilt University Law School. He serves as Chair of the American Bar Association’s National Committee on Military Justice and Homeland Security and Vice Chair of Wildlands Network, a national environmental organization dedicated to restoring and rewilding North America.
Arjun presently divides his time between Washington, DC and Austin, TX, and loves pick-up soccer and dogs.
Harry Gantz is a veteran documentary filmmaker and television producer whose films and TV series have been seen on HBO, CBS, Showtime, The Sundance Channel, and many other networks. Harry, along with his brother Joe, produced and directed one of HBO's longest running series, the Emmy award-winning Taxicab Confessions. They also produced the CBS series The Defenders, a courtroom drama told from the perspective of the often-overlooked defendant. The Gantz Brothers' HBO documentary American Winter reveals the plight of middle class families falling into poverty following the Great Recession. Senator Jeff Merkley and Senator Elizabeth Warren invited three families from the film to testify at a US Senate hearing.
Currently, Harry is engaged with the political process, making films for Democratic candidates and progressive causes. His short film, "I Switched," produced for the Arizona Democratic Party, won "Best Long Form Video" at the Campaigns & Elections' Reed Awards.
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After several years of living in Los Angeles, Harry now resides in New Mexico.