Helio San Miguel was born in Madrid and lives in New York, where he completed his MFA in Film at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He’s the writer and director of Blindness, a film about a love story between a shy man and a blind woman, and is currently working on a script based on the story of Abelard and Héloïse. Helio has a Ph.D. in philosophy and teaches film history and film aesthetics at the Media School and The New School. Helio has also edited and contributed to several film books, published numerous articles, and lectured extensively about cinema. He is the editor of World Film Locations: Mumbai (Intellect Books, 2012), and has collaborated in World Film Locations: Madrid (Intellect Books, 2011), The Cinema of Latin America (Wallflower Press, 2003), and Tierra en Trance (Alianza Editorial, 1999). He also holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and teaches film at The Media School and Parsons School of the Arts at The New School in New York.
James O'Higgins has an academic background in philosophy and has taught this subject at NYU’s SPCS for 22 years. He was a personal friend of Agnes Heller for more than 20 years before embarking on this project.
Nyika Jancsó is an internationally known award-winning cinematographer who, since the start of his career, has shot over five dozen feature films, documentaries and classical music productions. Nyika’s credits include the Cannes Palm D’Or nominee and Jury Grand Prize-winning Diary For My Children, by Hungary’s seminal director Márta Mészáros; Scottish director Ian Knox’s BAFTA winner The Privilege; Ibolya Fekete’s Chicago IFF Gold Hugo and Karlovy Vary Crystal Globe nominee Chico; and the FIPA D’Or winning musical documentary A Different Way, by Gabriel Szollosy. He also works on a regular basis with the New York based Academy-winner Allan Miller on music documentaries. Nyika has been a regular collaborator on musical productions; countless concerts, operas, ballets featuring the greatest artists for EuroArts Music International and Accentus Music Unitel BBC over the past three decades. Recently he has been the director of photography for Helio San Miguel’s documentary on Hungarian philosopher Agnes Heller, and for the epic drama La Otra Vida, a co-production of Argentina, Uruguay and Italy. Nyika Jancsó is the eldest son of Hungarian film directors Miklós Jancsó and Márta Mészáros.
Suzanne Yong-Sellers is an editor based in New York City. After graduating from Boston University in 2002, she began her career installing and troubleshooting Avid systems throughout New York City. Using connections from her work as an Avid technician, she moved to editing reality and lifestyle shows, working with hosts like Martha Stewart, Emeril Lagasse and Bobby Flay. More recently, she has edited news features featuring Katie Couric for Yahoo News. She also edited Helio San Miguel’s previous film, Blindness. She is grateful to work on projects that educate, inspire and entertain.