SAM GREEN, director, producer, and editor, received his Masters Degree in Journalism from the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied documentary film with acclaimed filmmaker Marlon Riggs. His documentary “The Rainbow Man/John 3:16″ premiered at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival and screened at festivals worldwide, winning the Grand Prize at the USA Film Festival in Dallas and Best Documentary awards at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and the New York and Chicago Underground Film Festivals.

His most recent documentary “Pie Fight 69″ premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, where it won an honorable mention in the shorts category. “Pie Fight 69″ won first prize at the Black Maria Film Festival and Best Documentary at the 2000 Chicago Underground Film Festival. Green currently lives in San Francisco and is an artist in residence at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Marin Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito.

BILL SIEGEL, co-director and producer, is a Chicago-based educator and documentary filmmaker. He has worked on a number of documentary films, including “Muhammad Ali: The Whole Story,” “Hoop Dreams,” and “One Love,” an upcoming documentary by Leon Gast (“When We Were Kings”). He grew up in Minneapolis, cut his teeth on rock and roll, and is currently the director of school programs for the Great Books Foundation, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to literacy and lifelong learning. “The goal of THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND is not so much to give answers but to raise questions. By exploring this controversial subject with depth and balance, we hope to encourage a broad debate of some of the most important issues of our time. What would real social justice look like not just in America, but throughout the world? What is our responsibility as Americans for the inequalities of globalism? How do we as a society define violence and terrorism? How do ‘we the people’ respond effectively and responsibly if a presidential administration seems unwilling to respond to popular will?”