The Giraffe Partners are:

DAVID HOLBROOKE

David Holbrooke has just finished directing a feature length documentary for HBO called Hard As Nails. The film is about an unusually charismatic yet controversial Catholic youth Minister named Justin Fatica. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in May 2007 and will air on HBO in 2008.

Holbrooke has made several other films about faith including the short documentary, Freaks Like Me, which took conversations from the 2004 Parliament of the World’s Religions and weaved them into a tapestry that explored faith and fanaticism in these unsettled times. Before that, Holbrooke directed the short documentary, Time for a New God. Filmed at Coney Island and featuring Rabbi Irwin Kula, this walking monologue re-imagines and rethinks the role of God in our society today.

A Redwood Grows in Brooklyn features acclaimed nature photographer Jim Balog who illustrates how this relationship became so deeply damaged and how we can fix it. All of these films have played at festivals around the world and are part of an ongoing series he created called Original Thinkers. (www.originalthinkers.com)

The first Original Thinker film was Live from Shiva’s Dance Floor, which premiered at Sundance and won awards at the Tribeca and Santa Cruz Film Festivals. Produced by Holbrooke and directed by Richard Linklater, the film features underground tour guide Speed Levitch’s thoroughly original vision of what to do with Ground Zero.

Other recent projects include The Soul of Healing with Deepak Chopra, which he directed for PBS. Holbrooke also co-produced The Trials of Henry Kissinger. He has also directed several short pieces for corporate and non-profit clients including the Visiting Nurse Service and a proposed center for inter-religious understanding in the Middle East.

Before he became a filmmaker, he spent a year in the dotcom world developing content for the Internet. Previously he worked extensively in television news, producing long-form pieces for the Today Show, CBS News and CNN. He also produced a show about the outdoors for PBS, U.S. Open coverage for USA Network, two Summer Olympics for NBC and was also involved in the start up of CNBC.

He is currently a contributing editor at GQ and has written for the Huffington Post. His production company, Giraffe Partners, is developing a narrative feature, several other documentaries and a non-fiction series. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Sarah, their three kids, and a dog.

SARAH HOLBROOKE

Sarah Holbrooke works on most of the Giraffe Partners productions, but also has an active career producing cable television. Most recently she co-produced “Hard As Nails” and was senior editorial producer launching a controversial talk show on CNN’s Headline News. She specializes in particularly complicated and daunting field production, as well as casting and booking. She also directs interview programs for film directors at various film festivals across the country.

She has worked on various reality shows, from ABC’s “Extreme Makeover” and “Wife Swap” to Discovery’s “Surprise by Design” and fashion police. She also worked at CBS and ABC News. Her previous jobs have included red carpet interviewer, taxi driver, and auto mechanic. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, David and three children and a dog. She likes to rock climb in her spare time.

SARAH KLEIN

Klein most recently produced the HBO feature documentary, Hard As Nails, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival in May. Before that, she produced a segment of Big Mouth Production’s feature film, Election Day, which premiered at SXSW and will air on PBS in 2007. Her short documentary Slow By Slow, set in rural Rwanda, showed at film festivals nationwide. Before that, Klein spent years writing and directing documentaries for The History Channel, A&E, The Weather Channel, and WGN. She is currently co-directing the feature-length documentary Mother of The Year, about contemporary American motherhood.