Steve Dorst [Director/Co-Producer] is producer and president of Dorst MediaWorks, Inc in Washington, DC, the video production studio he founded in 2000. In 2006-07, he wrote, directed, and produced Volcanic Sprint, a feature documentary that chronicles the adventure and human emotion of a brutal mountain race in Africa. It is currently being submitted to film festivals around the world. Dorst is continuing work on Koppo and Lady B, a documentary that chronicles the decline and revitalization of musical tradition and identity in the new African mega-city. Dorst has produced and directed dozens of short-format corporate and advocacy videos for prominent international organizations: American Red Cross, World Bank Group, United Nations, International Medical Corps, International Crisis Group. He has led field production teams in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. He writes a blog on the ties between foreign affairs and documentary film.

Joe Brinker [Co-Producer] Joseph “Joe” Brinker was born in Cincinnati in 1969 and graduated from Saint Xavier High School in 1987. Since 2001, Brinker has worked as an international consultant on conflict resolution and civil society development in senior management positions for some of the world’s leading global institutions, including USAID, the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Most notably, Brinker managed the UN election office in Jalalabad, Afghanistan during the parliamentary elections in 2005, where he headed a staff of 12,000 and managed a budget of $3 million. In 2006, he coordinated logistics for the Afghan Presidential Out-of-Country Registration and Voting, which at the time was the largest refugee vote ever attempted. Brinker earned an MA in International Economics from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a BA in English Literature from Georgetown University. Rebirth of Over-the-Rhine is his first film.

ADVISORS

The producers are assembling an advisory team of local and national experts on Cincinnati's history, business, politics, architecture, and aspects of social life; as well as subject experts in historic preservation, urban revitalization, and economic development.

The Rebirth of Over-the-Rhine website was produced by Dorst MediaWorks, Inc. Photographs by Steve Dorst and Joe Brinker.