Michael Bronner is a journalist, screenwriter, producer and director. He transitioned into feature film after many years as a staff producer at CBS News/60 Minutes and long-form magazine writing for Vanity Fair, Foreign Policy and others. Turning to film, he collaborated with director Paul Greengrass and producer Lloyd Levin on Oscar-nominated and BAFTA winner United 93 and Green Zone (Matt Damon, Khalid Abdalla), and later with Greengrass on Captain Phillips (Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi). He was nominated for writing and producing BAFTA Awards for The Mauritanian (Tahar Rahim, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jodie Foster). Bronner based his original screenplay for Rogue Agent (James Norton, Gemma Arterton) on his long-form magazine piece, “Chasing Agent Freegard,” and also served as a producer on the film. His work in broadcast journalism has been recognized with a Peabody Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting and several Emmy nominations. Bronner served for a decade as a co-founding editor of the not-for-profit online magazine Warscapes.
Bhakti Shringarpure joined the company as a producer in 2020 and brings her extensive research and writing experience on Africa and South Asia to bear in shaping sensitive, bold and representationally progressive productions. Bhakti is a writer, editor and academic who co-founded Warscapes magazine in 2011. Since 2021, Warscapes transitioned into the Radical Books Collective, a community building project that organizes book clubs, book events and immersive seminars; and dubbed as “fast-growing initiative with an international audience of general readers, academics, intellectuals, and book lovers” by the Literary Hub. She is the author of Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital (2019) and co-author of India’s Imperial Formations: Cultural Perspectives (2025). She is the editor of Literary Sudans: An Anthology of Literature from Sudan and South Sudan (2017), Imagine Africa (2017), Mediterranean: Migrant Crossings (2018), Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War (2024), and the ongoing book series “Decolonize That!” for OR Books (New York) with five volumes published. Bhakti has written for Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, Africa is a Country, The Funambulist, Scroll and others.