Dr. Debra Gonsher Vinik founded Diva Communications in 1985. She has produced and written fourteen documentaries of which eight have been nominated for Emmy awards and three have won the honors for Best Religious Programming: And The Gates Opened (2007), The Eternal Light (2008), and Yearning To Belong(2009).

In addition, Dr. Gonsher Vinik is a Professor and Chairperson of the Communication Arts and Sciences Department at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York. She began her career as a producer of Bravo Magazine and was head of production for both CBS/Fox Video and Scanline Video. Her book The Community College Guide was published recently by BenBella Press.In the last few years, Dr. Gonsher Vinik has concentrated on interfaith documentaries highlighting social justice issues.

A Place for All: Faith and Community for Persons with Disabilities (2010) was nominated for an Emmy and won the highest honors in the Broadcast Category of the DeRose Hinkhouse Awards.

I Believe You: Faith’s Response to Intimate Partner Violence (2011) which was recently nominated for an Emmy, is currently on the film festival circuit nationwide. It will be rebroadcast on NBC affiliated stations at the end of September 2012.

Her newest completed documentary, A Peace of Bread: Faith, Food, and the Future, examined the creative initiatives young faith leaders employ to combat hunger in the United States. The film aired on ABC affiliated stations November 2011 through January 2012.

She has just begun work on a one-hour documentary, Divine Prescription: When Faith and Health Care Meet, that will examine how faith groups have stepped into the breach created by the economic crisis and reduced insurance and healthcare benefits to offer their communities a broad array of physical and mental health programs.

Dr. Gonsher Vinik has also expanded into short form videos for the internet and mobile apps. Her Morning Thoughts is the most viewed video on Odyssey Network’s Call On Faith app.

David has over 25 years experience in television. His first company was Davideo Productions.

He started out as his career as apprentice film editor cutting commercials, then eventually moved to directing/editing news and documentaries. Since then, he has edited an endless variety of programs using his Avid Media Composers.

With 14 broadcast documentaries, 3 Emmy awards, and 17 years editing the weekly PBS series Out Of Ireland under his belt, David is truly has gained incredible expertise in all video techniques including graphics, animation and audio post.

David has shot and directed Diva’s last 5 documentaries, shoots and edits for the Voice of America, and also edits for CBS News.
He has recently received his second Emmy nomination – this time for the editing of I Believe You.

Andrea has been working in documentary production and distribution since 2002. She started as an intern at Five Spot Films, where one of her jobs was to log footage of an embalming process for a documentary about home funerals. She loved it. She subsequently worked for Paradigm Pictures in Toronto, Canada, and the NYC-based independent distributors Kino International and Women Make Movies, before returning to production with “Olmsted and America’s Urban Parks.” Andrea loves graveyards, ghost stories, and New York City history, and has combined the three into a book of short stories, “Boroughs of the Dead.” She is thrilled to bring a little darkness to Diva Communications.