Plays in Shorts Program: What These Walls Hold
Sunday, June 15
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Regal Gallery Place

701 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

Classroom 4

Director

Eden Wurmfeld

Executive Producers

Edward Norton, Tracey Bing, Charlie Pigott, and Zander Arkin

Producers

Yael Bridge, Eden Wurmfeld

Editor

Lawrence Lerew

Consulting Editor

Co-Editor

Assistant Editor

Cinematographer

Sean Conley

Additional Cinematography

Music

Sound

Narration

Contact

An award-winning history professor leads a transformative course with a unique group of students: half incarcerated, half free, exploring The History of Crime and Punishment in the United States. Through themes like masculinity, prison abolition, and mercy, the class challenges the invisibility of incarcerated people and reveals the far-reaching consequences of mass imprisonment. The course emphasizes the vital role of programs that bring together the incarcerated and free, fostering mutual understanding and connection.

Director, Classroom 4

Eden Wurmfeld is an Emmy-nominated fiction and documentary producer and director who is committed to ushering compelling characters and moving stories to the screen. As a filmmaker, Eden is not genre or subject driven; rather it is the heart, soul, and message of a particular story that give Eden the drive to bring a film to fruition.

Recent independent doc credits include Chasing Childhood (Abramorama) and The Big Scary “S” Word (Greenwich Entertainment). Previously, Eden produced the Netflix Original Saving Capitalism, featuring former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, which launched worldwide in 2017. Among her other documentary credits are No Impact Man (Sundance, Oscilloscope) Left on Purpose (Gunpowder and Steel), My So-Called Enemy (PBS) and Romeo Romeo (PBS).

Eden’s first documentary effort, the critically acclaimed ITVS Sunset Story, aired nationally on PBS Independent Lens in 2005 and won the jury award at the Tribeca Film Festival as well as the audience award at LAFF.

Eden is a member of AMPAS and the DGA—she is also a founding member of the Documentary Producers Alliance (DPA).