The Archives

Director and Producer Bernadette Wegenstein, Producers Renée Frigo and Henrique Landulfo

In an age of dizzying disinformation and rising antisemitism, preserving Holocaust archives is more important than ever. The Archives tells the story of these hallowed grounds of truth, the archivists who safeguard them, and the victims’ descendants who turn to them, excavating the trauma of the past to build a better future.

Bernadette Wegenstein

Director and Producer

Bernadette Wegenstein is a US-Austrian documentary filmmaker and author. Bernadette has produced and directed several documentary features and shorts. Devoti tutti (2023), which premiered at Biografilm Bologna and won multiple film awards, including Best Documentary and Audience Awards. The Conductor (2021) premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, played at over 100 festivals, and won five Best Documentary awards. It aired on PBS “Great Performances” and was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary. The documentary music short, See Me: A Global Concert, produced during the pandemic, won numerous Best Music Film and Best Editing awards, including the Firenze Corti Premio Rive Gauche. Her intimate breast cancer documentary, The Good Breast, premiered at the Geena Davis Gender Institute’s Bentonville Film Festival. She has recently won a grant to develop Fidelio and the Unjust Incarceration, a multimedia performance piece that combines Beethoven’s Fidelio with newly created music and text.

Henrique Landulfo

Producer

Henrique Landulfo started his career in cinema production in Brazil in 2004. He is the Producer and Co-Director with Sandra Kogut of the documentary feature No Céu da Pátria Nesse Instante (2023), which premiered at the 56th Brasília Film Festival and won the Best Editing and Special Jury prizes. The film screened at IDFA (Netherlands), the Málaga Film Festival (Spain), DOK.fest München (Germany) and many others. Henrique participated as a field producer in the film Pelé (Netflix, Pitch International, UK, 2020), which retells the story of one of the greatest Brazilian idols of all time. He was a co-producer for The Conductor, by Bernadette Wegenstein, a documentary about the renowned conductor Marin Alsop, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for an Emmy for Best Documentary, as well as having participated in more than 100 film festivals.

Renée Frigo

Producer

Renée Frigo is the founder of Oak Street Pictures. She produced Marcella (2025), Best Documentary winner by the James Beard and Taste Awards, directed by Peter Miller, and Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter, directed by Rebecca Halpern, nominated for a James Beard Award (Netflix). Her credits include collaborations with Edson Oda on Nine Days (Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, Sundance), Michael Almereyda on Tesla (Alfred P. Sloan Prize, Sundance), and Brad Lichtenstein on Ashe ’68, executive produced by John Legend. A former executive in the music and food business, she co-founded Lucini Italia and serves on the board of the Ed Asner Family Center. She studied music at Indiana University, holds an Executive MBA from UCLA, is a member of the Producers Guild of America, and has appeared on CNN, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and as a Time Magazine Ad Week panelist.