The Spiritual Exercises

LLOYD KRAMER is a three-time DGA Award-nominated director of both documentary and scripted film and TV. A graduate of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, he first made his mark on-camera in New York with a daily off-beat human interest segment for the NBC station. He also produced and directed documentaries which won both Emmy and New York Press Club Awards three years in a row. Kramer went on to direct for Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions, beginning with the documentary, No One Dies Alone, for which he received his first DGA nomination. His movies include Before Women Had Wings, Amy and Isabelle, and an adaptation of Mitch Albom’s bestselling The Five People You Meet in Heaven (starring Jon Voight and Jeff Daniels) and For One More Day (with Ellen Burstyn and Michael Imperioli), both airing on ABC and earning him his second and third DGA nominations. With producer Tom Yellin, he has collaborated on the critically-acclaimed Report From Ground Zero, a two-hour ABC special which remains, for many, the comprehensive account of what happened inside the World Trade Center towers following the 9/11 attacks; and with Yellin and The Documentary Group, directed the docu-series America in Primetime (PBS, MSNBC) and the feature documentary Midsummer in Newtown (Participant Media, Vulcan Productions) which premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, and at the Boston Film Festival where he received the Special Jury Recognition Award as Best Director.

SCOTT CHESTNUT is a filmmaker with a long and diverse list of both narrative and documentary credits. He has served as editor and co-editor on 15 feature films including TAU (Netflix) and the 2015 award-winning documentary Unbranded. He drew praise for his editing of the now-classic Rounders, starring Matt Damon and Edward Norton, and You Kill Me, starring Ben Kingsley and Tea Leoni. His breakthrough film as an editor was John Dahl's neo-noir masterpiece Red Rock West, starring Nicolas Cage. He has also edited hundreds of music videos for artists such as Lenny Kravitz, Blink 182, Eric Clapton and Madonna. Madonna’s “Express Yourself,” which he edited for director David Fincher, is #10 on MTV’s 100 Greatest Videos of All Time. He has been instrumental in creating many commercials for clients such as Nike, Acura and Coors. His television productions have included editing Season 3 (2018) of Quantico for ABC; and co-producing America in Primetime, a four-part documentary series for PBS called the “best work about television on television in the last 20 years” by NPR reviewer David Bianculli. An accomplished cinematographer, Scott has worked behind the camera on several commercials and documentary projects. Recently, he was the director of photography on Rows, a dramatic feature based on Grimm's fairy tales. Scott is known for his expert command of story elements, his keen eye for telling visual details, and his use of unconventional but effective music cues.