DAVID SHAPIRO is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. He studied English at SUNY Albany and received his M.F.A. in combined media from Hunter College. Shapiro’s films and artwork have been profiled in “The New Yorker,” “The Village Voice,” and featured on the cover of “World Art Magazine;” he is represented by the Leibman Magnan Gallery in New York. KEEP THE RIVER ON YOUR RIGHT marks his feature documentary directorial debut.

Currently, Shapiro is working on the feature length film “Waste Management” and a feature adaptation of KEEP THE RIVER ON YOUR RIGHT, co-written with his sister and documentary collaborator, Laurie Gwen Shapiro.

LAURIE GWEN SHAPIRO studied film and television at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications and Melbourne University’s Swinburne Institute. KEEP THE RIVER ON YOUR RIGHT marks her directorial debut. Previously, Shapiro is the author of the comic novel “The Unexpected Salami” (Algonquin, 1998), which she has adapted for Radical Media to be directed by Alan White.

She is also the co-producer of “The McCourts of New York,” which aired on HBO/Cinemax and many international stations, and author of the play, “Inventing Color.”