Veteran NPR Correspondent Tom Gjelten reports on a wide variety of national security issues from a base in Washington. He brings many years of experience to this assignment, covering international news and armed conflict around the world. With other NPR correspondents, Gjelten covered the war in the Persian Gulf, the transition to democracy and capitalism in Eastern Europe, and the breakup of the Soviet Union. From 1991 to 1994, his major assignment was in the former Yugoslavia, where he covered the wars in Croatia and Bosnia. His reporting from Sarajevo provided the basis for his book Sarajevo Daily: A City and Its Newspaper Under Siege (Harper-Collins), which was selected by the American Library Association as a "Notable Nonfiction Book.” In addition to reporting for NPR, Gjelten is a regular panelist on the PBS program Washington Week and has written for The New Republic, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.

Zbanic began making films in 1997 when she founded the artist's association “ Deblokada,” through which she produced, wrote and directed numerous documentaries, video works and shorts. Her work has been screened in film festivals and exhibitions worldwide. Highlights include her short Birthday (part of the omnibus film Lost & Found), a look at the different paths taken by two young girls - one Croatian, one Bosniak; the 2002 documentary Red Rubber Boots, which follows Bosnian mothers searching for their children; and documentary Images From the Corner, a moving personal account of a young woman seriously wounded during the war who watched in pain as a foreign photographer snapped pictures of her. Grbavica: The Land of My Dream is Jasmila’s first full-length feature and, among many prizes, it won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2006.

Born in Sarajevo in 1974, Zbanic is a graduate of her native city’s Academy of Dramatic Arts, department for theater and film directing. Before filmmaking, she also worked as a puppeteer in the Vermont-based "Bread and Puppet" Theater and as a clown in a Lee De Long workshop.