Jake Boritt(Director/Producer/Camera) began work on Budapest to Gettysburg in the fall of 2003. Currently, he working with director Ronald Maxwell as associate producer for George Washington: Father of His Country for Historic Mount Vernon. Boritt is producing a behind on the scenes documentary. He is also producing a short film for the Gettysburg National Battlefield Museum Foundation, to be continuously shown to the nearly two million annual visitors. In 2004 he completed work as the associate producer/cameraman for the A&E documentary Crime Ink, following crime reporters for New York’s daily papers onto the streets. In 2003, he worked as associate producer and cameraman for New York–based Teale-Edwards Productions on the AMC documentary Surviving Seagal,which investigated connections between Hollywood and the mafia. In July 2003, he shot an anthropological documentary in the interior jungle of Borneo on a remote village’s new satellite Internet connection titled eBario.

In 2002, he wrote, produced, directed and shot a historical documentary on the Gettysburg area titled Adams County USA, which aired on public television, screened at National Geographic and is currently used in schools (AdamsCountyUSA.com). Ken Burns said, “Jake Boritt has made a really good film. His direction is sure, confidence pours from every cut, and the stories he tells are stories I want to hear. Mr. Boritt proves impressively that all good history is local. Bravo.” Also in 2002, Boritt worked with David Grubin, helping research and produce two films, Young Doctor Freud and Kofi Annan: Center of the Storm. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University. He has received a NEH Younger Scholars history grant and was raised on a historic farm in Gettysburg. He lives in New York City.

Ira Meistrich(Editor) has worked in documentary film for more than thirty years. His work has aired on all three major networks, as well as PBS, Discovery, and A&E, among others. His work has received one Emmy Award and five Emmy nominations. Among his credits are The Soros Foundation’s A Sentence of Their Own, awarded a 2001 Cine Golden Eagle Award; Answering Children’s Questions, a Peter Jennings Special following the 9/11 attacks, which won a 2002 duPont-Columbia Silver Baton Award, and the groundbreaking Right Here, Right Now, a multipart independent video-diary series for WGBH/American Documentary, Inc. He is currently completing Something Abides, a full-length documentary about modern-day Gettysburg. He worked with Jake Boritt as post-production supervisor and editor for Adams County USA and the recently completed A&E documentary Crime Ink.