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A Tree of Life

Director and Producer Trish Adlesic, Producer Susan Margolin

A shofar blower, a gun shop housed in a former synagogue, and eleven hundred mitzvahs weave this intimate tapestry of a community rebuilding after eleven people are brutally murdered inside their synagogue for being Jewish.

Phase of Support: Post-Production

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Trish Adlesic

Director, Producer

Trish Adlesic, Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning producer/director teamed with Josh Fox and HBO to produce Gasland and Gasland II, which received an Academy Award nomination and won an Emmy. Gasland premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010. Gasland Part II premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2013.

Trish co-directed with Geeta Gandbhir and co-produced I Am Evidence along with Mariska Hargitay about the alarming number of untested sexual assault kits in America. It premiered on HBO in April of 2018. I Am Evidence was awarded the prestigious duPont Columbia prize and was a Peabody finalist. I Am Evidence received two Emmy nominations, and won the Emmy Award for best documentary.

Trish has 20 years of experience working in narrative filmmaking with notable directors; Gus Van Sant, James L. Brooks, Michael Mann, Jim Sheridan and Sidney Lumet. She worked on the TV show Law & Order: SVU for 14 seasons.

Susan Margolin

Producer

Susan Margolin is a pioneer of digital distribution and a creator of independent films with 25+ years’ experience. Margolin co-founded film distributor New Video/Docurama Films in 1992 and ran the company until she sold it to Cinedigm in 2012. As Co-President she distributed critically acclaimed, award winning films including Destin Daniel Crettin’s Short Term 12 and Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering’s Academy Award nominated The Invisible War. In 2016 Margolin launched St. Marks Productions. She produced Nancy Buirski’s A Crime on the Bayou (Starz), The Rape of Recy Taylor (Starz), Alexandra Codina’s Paper Children (YouTube Originals), and Trish Adlesic’s Tree of Life and Executive Produced Judith Helfand’s Love and Stuff, Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl’s Obsessed With Light and Cheryl Miller Houser’s Generation Startup (Netflix). Margolin serves on the board of directors of Chicken & Egg, BAFTA NY (emerita), and the DPA. Margolin is a member of the PGA, BAFTA and AMPAS.