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"Without a Net" follows the plight of Sofia, a young African mother who struggles to save her baby from the deadly disease, malaria. Beautifully filmed, this intimate portrait brings us on a journey to a remote tribal village in Tanzania. Here, local medical personal work tirelessly to educate the community, as well as the many efforts taking shape at the world-renowned research clinic in Bagamayo. Despite the tragedy, at the heart of the film is the struggle to triumph over malaria as Tanzanian doctors and medical researchers lead the world in developing new treatments to combat this deadly pandemic. Few films are as adept at portraying a personal African perspective.

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Morgan Monet is a producer, director and editor. She is the co-founder of Eyefull Tower Films Inc., an award winning Production Company based in the San Francisco Bay Area.  She has over16 years experience working in high-end corporate communications as well as independent film projects. Morgan produced the short documentary WITHOUT A NET. This dramatic documentary about Malaria was recently shot on location in Tanzania, a country struggling to free itself from the grips of this devastating disease. Some of her other works include; The Tibet Oral History Project, Center For Independent Living, Kung Fu Extreme, Hate is the enemy, and Living Out Loud, a media training campaign for girls at risk. She continues to focus on issues around education, sustainable living and the environment, and enjoys working with non-profit organizations to create media for change. Currently she is completing a project for V-day, ending violence against women and children.
Marissa Aroy just finished directing the educational soap opera series “Grand Café.” In the documentary realm she produced and directed "Little Manila,” for PBS and produced “Sounds of Hope” shown on Frontline World. She received an Nor-Cal Emmy for the documentary “Sikhs in America,” which she produced and directed. Aroy holds a BA in psychology from Boston College and a Masters degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at University of California, Berkeley. When she's not making or watching movies, she's teaching digital filmmaking at Berkeley City College.
Writer/Director Niall McKay's critically acclaimed feature documentary “The Bass Player: A Song for Dad” was aired on RTE (Irish Television) in August and will play in the Mill Valley Film Festival in October. It was the critics choice in the Irish Times, The Irish Independent, the Sunday Business Post, and the Sun. It was described as "Masterfully Told" in The Irish Times” an "Outstanding film" in the Sunday World, "Heartwarming" in The Sun and an “absorbing, charming and deeply moving documentary” in the The Irish Sunday Independent. McKay won an EMMY for his documentary “Sikhs in America” about the challenges of being Sikh in the US, which aired on PBS stations across America as part of Asian Pacific Heritage Month in 2008. His work includes documentaries for PBS and dramas for cable television. He co-produced Irvine Welsh’s directorial debut, “Nuts.” A former print journalist, Niall’s work has appeared in The Economist, The New York Times and Wired Magazine. Currently, he is in production with Oakland: The Musical, a musical documentary about high school youth in Oakland, California.
Cassandra Herrman is a documentary filmmaker based in Berkeley, California.  She recently co-directed and photographed the PBS documentary “Tulia, Texas”, the story of a small town struggling with the aftermath of a controversial drug sting.  Cassandra’s other work includes films about immigration, juvenile justice and civil rights.  “American Exile”, about an exiled Black Panther leader screened at Sundance in 2002.  For the PBS series FRONTLINE/World, she has produced and photographer numerous documentaries, including stories about human rights in Zimbabwe; female runners in Kenya; and the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, nominated for a 2006 National Emmy Award.
Marta Wohl is an editor and story consultant based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has over 20 years experience editing for broadcast, corporate and independent media. The films she has edited have won numerous awards, appeared nationally on PBS, and have screened at festivals worldwide.  Marta worked for four years in the documentary unit at Lucasfilm, editing 25 of the 94 companion documentaries that profiled historical figures, events and significant ideas of the early 20th century for The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones series. The 22 DVD set was released in 2008. She also edited a video for Google Earth Outreach, Trading Bows and Arrows for Laptops, about their technology training program for several indigenous tribes living in the threatened Amazonian rain forest.  Recent credits also include the documentaries Don’t Know We’ll See: The Life and Work of Karen Karnes (2008), and Claiming the Title: Gay Olympics on Trial (2009).