Abel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at The Boston Globe and a professor of the practice at Boston University. Abel’s work has won an Edward R. Murrow Award, the Ernie Pyle Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation, and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Feature Reporting. His films include the Emmy-nominated “Entangled,” which was broadcast on PBS, and other award-winning films, such as "In the Whale," “Inundation District,” “Lobster War,” and “Sacred Cod.” Abel, who began learning to make films as a Nieman fellow at Harvard University, is The Petal Pusher’s producer, director, writer, and cinematographer. See more about him at www.davidsabel.com.

From the North Pole to Miami Beach, Chesak has been cutting documentaries for more than 30 years. His editing credits include "Crash of Flight 111" for NOVA, "Dangerous Prescription" for Frontline, "Surviving Mars" for the Discovery Channel, as well as numerous shows for History Channel, NAT GEO, NBC Sports, and the DIY Network. He recently was the finishing editor of the Frontline program "In the Age of AI" and has collaborated on several short festival films. Chesak has taught film editing at Emerson College, Boston University, The Maine International Film Television Workshops, Future Media Concepts, and at Harvard University's Department of Art, Film, & Visual Studies.