April Martin (“Cincinnati Goddamn” co-director/editor) Like anti-lynching activist and journalist Ida B. Wells, artist/activist April L. Martin is a “Negro Adventuress” documenting the pain, beauty and culture of her people. Martin’s video subjects include Hurricane Katrina survivors, the historic commuted sentence of death-row inmate Jeffrey Hill, and the video installation as part of Kerry James Marshall’s “Rhythm Mastr” project at The Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University.  She is the recipient of a Headlands Center for the Arts Residency (2009), the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award (2008), a Puffin Foundation Social Justice Grant (2007) and a Wexner Center for the Arts New Media Grant (2006). In 2004, Martin was named a fellow at the Academy for Alternative Journalism at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. In 2000, Martin was an intern at C-Span Television through a fellowship at the National Journalism Center in Washington, D.C.Soon after she returned to Cincinnati from that internship, Martin’s hometown exploded into the riots of April 7, 2001.

Paul Hill  (“Cincinnati Goddamn” co-director/editor)is an award-winning editor and filmmaker.  He joined the Wexner Center’s Film/Video Studio Program in 1996 where he edits with world-renowned visiting artists and teaches Avid classes. In 2002 he completed “Myth of Father,” a documentary about the complexities of his relationship with his transgendered father. The film has been screened and won awards at festivals worldwide and is now being distributed by Frameline in San Francisco.  Through the Film/Video Studio Program, Hill has edited and mixed sound for filmmakers and video artists including Sadie Benning, Barbara Hammer, Miranda July and Shimon Attie.  He was also an editor for “The Brandon Teena Story,” which won the Best Documentary award at several festivals,  Berlin and Toronto among them. He was a contributing editor for the Oscar-nominated documentary “A Lion In The House.”

To view their work visit www.crusadeforjustice.com