Our Team
Denis Mueller - Producer/Director
Denis Mueller has been making films for 30 years. HOWARD ZINN: YOU CAN’T BE NEUTRAL ON A MOVING TRAIN was broadcast on the Sundance Channel, Link TV, and Free Speech Television. It was short-listed for an Academy Award nomination in 2005 and has recently been showed on Vermont PBS and the Savoy Theatre. Denis’ various films have been released on DVD and have also seen theatrical distribution.
Beginning with the award-winning, FBI’S WAR ON BLACK AMERICA, which was co-produced and co-directed with Deb Ellis, he has charted the abuses by the FBI and other government agencies for over 20 years and has built an audience surrounding the subject throughout the years. Denis recently completed PEACE HAS NO BORDERS with collaborator Deb Ellis. He also was the co-director of the film, NELSON ALGREN: THE END IS NOTHING, THE ROAD IS ALL which recently was broadcast on Vermont Public Television, WTTW PBS and presented at The American Documentary Festival. His new film PEACE HAS NO BORDERS received an audience award at the Vermont Film Festival.
Ilko Davidov - Director
llko Davidov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, where, as a teenager he was involved with the local rock scene, and started making documentaries and music videos, which resulted in him being arrested numerous times, and accused of subversive, anti-Communist activities. At 23, he immigrated to the United States seeking political asylum.
He completed his film degree at Columbia College Chicago, and started his career in documentary filmmaking at Kartemquin Films Davidov has produced and edited award-winning documentaries, such as SACRED SOUNDS (2000), a feature documentary about world sacred music; ABOUT FACE (2005), a feature documentary about German and Austrian Jewish refugees who fought in the Second World War; producer and director of CHILDREN IN EXILE (2007), a film on the children exiled to the Soviet Gulag prison camps. Most recently, the documentary WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: A MAN WITHIN, on the beat writer, which Davidov co-produced and edited, has been distributed theatrically and broadcast across the world. His work as a producer/editor for HOW TO PUNK A REVOLUTION received audience award at the Berlin Film Festival where it won an audience award a Felix Award for Best Documentary, Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, 2017. He was also the co-director for the film NELSON ALGREN: THE END IS NOTHING, THE ROAD IS ALL.