Elizabeth Rodgers, (writer/producer/director)

      Elizabeth Rodgers, a Los Angeles native, is a screenwriter and filmmaker, having written for Paramount Pictures, Carsey/Werner and Showtime, among others.  Her documentaries have appeared nationally on PBS and on educational television worldwide. Other producing credits include: Speaking In Strings (Academy Award nomination, 2000), Pharaoh's Army, Blood Memory; The Legend of Beanie Short. Elizabeth has written and performed one-woman shows in New York and Los Angeles.
      Elizabeth is a freelance journalist focusing on travel, food and technology. Elizabeth has a degree in History-Sociology from Columbia Universtiy.

Robby Henson (writer/producer/director)

Robby Henson received his M.F.A. from New York University's graduate film school, his thesis film won the Student Academy Award.   His films have been seen on PBS, the BBC, at Lincoln Center, the Museum of Modern Art, the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris and at festivals in Canada, Ireland, France, Yugoslavia and Australia.   He has directed over 30 play productions in New York and regionally and has made 5 award winning documentaries shown on PBS including SPALDING GRAY: A LIFE IN PROGRESS and TROUBLE BEHIND a film about a Southern race riot which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival.   Switching gears to narrative, Robby's dramatic first feature PHARAOH'S ARMY with Academy Award winner Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson and Kris Kristofferson was released theatrically by Lions Gate Films and was shown on PBS. He collaborated with Norman Jewison on a screenplay for Phoenix Pictures/Michael Medavoy.   In ‘02   he wrote and directed THE BADGE, a southern crime drama staring Billy Bob Thornton, Patricia Arquette and Sela Ward for Starz! Pictures and Lions Gate Films that was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award (Gay and Lesbian Alliance) and won Best Drama at the Breckinridge Film Festival and Best Feature Film at the Texas Film Festival. His third feature THE VISITATION, a supernatural thriller was released by 20th Century Fox last year and starred Edward Furlong, Kelly Lynch, Martin Donovan and Randy Travis.   This last summer he finished shooting his 5th feature film HOUSE in Poland which featured Michael Madsen.

Major Corporate Underwriting for EXODUS 1947 has been provided by:

• The Jack Pechter Foundation
• The Fund for Jewish Documentary Filmmaking at the National Foundation for Jewish Culture
• The Righteous Persons Foundation
• The Maryland Humanities Council
• The Marvin Schapiro Foundation
• The David Geffen Foundation
• The Doris Rief Foundation
• The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation
• The Harry and Leah Gudelsky Foundation
• The American-Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
• The Experimental Television Center