Director/producer Scott Dalton, a native of Conroe, Texas, is a freelance photographer and filmmaker based in Colombia, where he has covered the conflict for five years. A nine-year veteran of Latin American photojournalism, he has worked extensively throughout Central and South America, as well as in the Middle East. In 2003, while on assignment in one of Colombia's most dangerous war zones, he was kidnapped by leftist rebels. (He was released after 11 days.) His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Time magazine, Newsweek, and the Associated Press, among other outlets.

Director/producer Margarita Martinez is a reporter for the Associated Press in Bogota, Colombia, where she covers the civil conflict, gangs, and negotiations between the government and insurgent groups. She graduated from Bogota's University of the Andes in 1994 with a law degree and worked at the Foreign Affairs Ministry. She was a Fulbright Scholar in journalism and international affairs at Columbia University in New York, graduating in 1998. After a stint at NBC News, Martinez moved back to Colombia. Her work at the AP eventually led her to Medellin's poor barrios, which are a window on the roots of Colombia's violence.

Editor and consulting producer Andrew Blackwell is a Canadian-American documentary producer and editor living until recently in Bogota, Colombia. In addition to editing the award-winning ON THIS ISLAND (2001), which broadcast as part of the PBS Independent Lens series, he also edited UP TO THE MOUNTAIN, DOWN TO THE VILLAGE (2004), and was Associate Producer of IN SEARCH OF THE NOVEL (2000), an 8-hour series created by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He also covered Afghanistan's recent elections for the US State Department, as a news editor and field audio engineer. His short film AUTORICKSHAW (2003) was presented at the 2004 New York Underground Film Festival. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.