About Filmmaker Hal Rifken: Hal Rifken has traveled the world on projects that cover a diversity of subjects, from music videos and artist profiles for Sony Music to a documentary linking exhumed Muslim war victims in Sarajevo to grieving families. He has had a documentary and corporate assignments with the BBC, the United Nations, Fortune 500 companies, and most of all the major networks. Recent projects include DP/Co-producer on the first major overview of Waldorf education in America. He produced a series on chef Martin Yan for the Food Network that took him and his crew to Southeast Asia that was one of the first travel/food programs that explored cultures through food. Profiling artist Siona Benjamin continues to be his interest in issues related to cultural assimilation.