Before producing and directing his first documentary feature, Me To Play, Jim Bernfield wrote, directed, and produced award-winning films broadcasted and exhibited nationwide, wrote award-winning screen- and teleplays, and created thousands of advertisements for public interests and political campaigns, including the last six Democratic Presidential nominees.  He now serves at Senior Vice President for Marketing and Communications at the NGO Human Rights First.  Jim earned his MFA in film direction at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.  He lost his father to Parkinson’s twenty years ago.