Collaborators
Over the past 30 years, countless individuals have contributed to Jigsaw’s body of work. Below is a short list of current key collaborators.
Maryse Alberti
Maryse Alberti is an award-winning cinematographer, with over twenty years of experience in both fiction and documentary filmmaking. Her work with Jigsaw includes Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side, Casino Jack and the United States of Money, My Trip to Al-Qaeda and, most recently, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer. Outside of Jigsaw, Alberti’s credits include films such as When We Were Kings, Todd Solondz’s Happiness, Richard Linklater’s Tape and Martin Scorsese’s No Direction Home: Bob Dylan. In 1995, she won the Cinematography Award at the Sundance Film Festival for her work on Terry Zwigoff’s documentary Crumb. She has also been honored with two Independent Spirit Awards—in 1999, for Todd Haynes’s Velvet Goldmine, and in 2008, for Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler. Alberti is currently collaborating with Jigsaw on a documentary about WikiLeaks.
Sam Black
A native of Portland, Maine, Sam Black has been collaborating with Jigsaw since 2007. He worked as a co-producer on Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer and as associate producer for Casino Jack and the United States of Money, My Trip to Al Qaeda, and Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place. His projects outside of Jigsaw include serving as a researcher on Curtis Hanson’s Too Big To Fail, an HBO feature film about the 2008 financial crisis, and as a producer for Charge, an independent documentary about the conflict over lithium in Bolivia. Black is currently co-producing a documentary about WikiLeaks for Jigsaw.
Alison Ellwood
Alison Ellwood’s first feature with Jigsaw was Oscar-nominated Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, which she edited and produced, and she has been collaborating with Jigsaw regularly ever since. Most recently, Ellwood co-directed Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place with Alex Gibney, as well as editing and producing Catching Hell. Other Jigsaw credits include editing and producing Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, My Trip to Al Qaeda, and Casino Jack and the United States of Money. Outside of her work with Jigsaw, Ellwood has directed television documentaries, including the Emmy Award-winning series American High, The Travelers, and Sixteen, produced television documentaries such as The Residents, 30 Days, and Brick City, and served as editor for Bill Moyers, the Discovery Channel, Sundance Channel, Showtime, and HBO’s America Undercover series.
Alexandra Johnes
Alexandra Johnes has been collaborating with Jigsaw since 2007, serving as a producer on Freakonomics, My Trip to Al-Qaeda, Magic Trip, and co-producer on Casino Jack and the United States of Money, as well working as a production executive on several other Jigsaw features. Outside of Jigsaw, her film Doubletime was acquired mid-production by Discovery Films and premiered at the SXSW and Tribeca Film Festivals and will be released digitally in August 2011. Prior to her career as a producer, Johnes worked as a child actor, making her debut at the 1988 Sundance Film Festival in the starring role of the Columbia Pictures film Zelly & Me, alongside Isabella Rossellini and David Lynch. She is currently working with Jigsaw on a film about the future of the Catholic Church, as well as producing Giants in the Dirt: It’s Your Life Calling (aka Untitled Haiti Project) with Naked Edge Films and developing Beyond the Endgame with JIgsaw and Belfast’s Below The Radar.
Sloane Klevin
Sloane Klevin has been an editor of films, television, commercials, music videos, and trailers for twenty years. Her work with Jigsaw includes The Blues, Freakonomics, and Taxi to the Dark Side, for which she won an Emmy. Her other longform credits include the 2002 Sundance Audience Award winner Real Women Have Curves, Merchant Ivory’s Heights, Pumpkin, starring Christina Ricci, and Paramount’s Harriet the Spy. Klevin is an editor and owner at Union, a commercial post-production company with offices in New York and Los Angeles, and she is an Adjunct Professor of Film Editing at Columbia University. She is also active on the advisory board of the Educational Video Center, which teaches inner-city youth the art and craft of documentary filmmaking. In January 2011, she served on the US Documentary Jury at the Sundance Film Festival alongside Matt Groening, and has a signed Bart Simpson drawing on her edit room wall to prove it!