Amy Briamonte is a writer and producer of theatrical and television documentaries. She got her start working in the Brill Building cutting rooms of Paul Schrader, Woody Allen and Brian De Palma before becoming a production executive focusing on nonfiction specials at A&E and Bravo. Since 2000, she’s been an independent writer/producer covering nature, history, and true crime.  Her work has appeared on Discovery, ID, National Geographic, A&E, History, HBO and CTV.  At Creative Differences, Amy enjoyed the opportunity to co-produce Werner Herzog’s CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS, INTO THE ABYSS and ON DEATH ROW, as well as Erik Nelson’s A GRAY STATE, DREAMS WITH SHARP TEETH and 9/10 THE FINAL HOURS. Despite these gloomy titles, Amy maintains she’s a genuinely upbeat person.  Current projects include THE TORCH, a feature documentary on guitar legend Buddy Guy, for IFC FILMS, and THE UNFORGOTTEN for ID.

Gavin Hodge is a producer, director and cameraman. After running a creatively successful Film & TV workshop in the London area and making the first 1-hr “Scratch Video” piece commissioned by Channel 4, he moved to Berlin in 1988 to make a film about the German Dada artist John Heartfield, which won several international prizes. Seeing no reason to return to Margaret Thatcher’s UK, Gavin has been living in Berlin for 30 years – the past 16 of which he has worked mainly for major US production companies, Creative Differences being his main and favourite client.

Multiple Emmy and IDA award-winning filmmaker Erik Nelson has produced and directed a wide range of feature documentaries for “Creative Differences.” These range from producing four films with Werner Herzog (“Grizzly Man”, “Cave of Forgotten Dreams”, “Into the Abyss” and the Oscar®-nominated “Encounters At The End Of The World”), to directing “Dreams With Sharp Teeth” (2008) a biographical look at iconoclastic writer Harlan Ellison, and “A Gray State” (2017) a harrowing true crime look at the toxic culture of conspiracy. Nelson’s two most recent films, the immersive World War 2 documentaries “The Cold Blue” (2019) and “Terror and Glory: 1945” (2021), demonstrate the director’s range and ability to weave a provocative story out of exquisitely restored archive footage. Nelson’s latest film, “Daytime Revolution”, which documents the week in 1972 when John and Yoko Lennon hijacked a mainstream talk show, will be released in 2024.

Peter Hankoff is a writer, director and producer who’s spent the last 18 years making documentary programs for the likes of National Geographic, History Channel and Discovery Channel. He began as a professional writer when paid $25 for an article published in FILM COMMENT. Investing wisely, he bought more typing paper and continued writing. He has made scores of television documentaries as well as having had dozens of screenplays and projects in development at the major studios and networks over the years. He continues to write when not in production. If there’s anything he’s learned, it’s that history is made up of troublemakers and real estate.

Robert Erickson is a Producer, Director and Avid Editor. He got started on Unsolved Mysteries with Stone-faced Robert Stack. Bilingual Spanish he has directed in Peru, Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia and even Puerto Rico (chasing a Chupacabra infestation). Rumor also places him on the CIA Payroll after 6 JFK Assassination docs confirming a single gunman from the 6th floor of the School book depository.

Werner Herzog was born in Munich on September 5, 1942. He grew up in a remote mountain village in Bavaria and studied History and German Literature in Munich and Pittsburgh. He made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature- and documentary films, such as Aguirre der Zorn Gottes (AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD, 1972), Nosferatu Phantom der Nacht (NOSFERATU, 1978), FITZCARRALDO (1982), Lektionen in Finsternis (LESSONS OF DARKNESS, 1992), LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY (1997), Mein liebster Feind (MY BEST FIEND, 1999), INVINCIBLE (2000), GRIZZLY MAN (2005), ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (2007), Die Höhle der vergessenen Träume (CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS, 2010). Werner Herzog has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas. Werner Herzog lives in Munich and Los Angeles.

Dave Harding is an enthusiastic “rough and ready” producer of the first order. Launching his professional career as a congressional correspondent and reporting from Washington, D.C. during the Carter administration, Dave was soon eager to trade the soul crushing politics of the early ‘80s for “show business.” He joined the Gibson Guitar Company as a video producer, moved to Nashville, and began producing videos and delivering one of a kind guitars to blues legends, rock stars, country royalty and jazz artists. Dave moved to Los Angeles and helped develop and sold “It’s Showtime At The Apollo” with a pal from Northwestern University and produced the Pilot and the first 6 years of the series 20 year run. But then, basic cable was booming and Dave joined Termite Art Productions as Employee #1. His work with Termite Art, Creative Differences and Lionsgate Television includes “The U.S. vs John Lennon”, “Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man” and exploring the “Dark Secrets of the Lusitania.” Recently, Dave has produced feature docs and high profile TV specials, with recent work including “I Hope You Dance”, “Dick Cavett’s Watergate”, “Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary”, “This Is Bob Hope…” for American Masters, and The Sergio Mendes Project, currently in post production.