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Justin Schein

Justin received his Masters in Documentary from Stanford University and has gone on to shoot over 50 documentary films. Presently Justin is in production on Upside-Down and BAckwards, a hybrid animated documentary about dyslexia with Academy Award winners Peggy Stern and John Canemaker. He is also shooting Imagining Peace a film about Israeli and Palestinian teenage girls. Justin recently served as co-director of photography with Albert Maysles on The Four Seasons, a film about a group of Holocaust survivors' final year together in the Catskills. It will screen in theaters this fall. Justin co-founded Shadowbox Films in 1998. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, filmmaker Eden Wurmfeld, and their son Micah.