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Marc Kornblatt Author

Filmmaker, playwright, and children's book author Marc Kornblatt is the producer/director of the award-winning documentaries DOSTOEVSKY BEHIND BARS, STILL 60, WHAT I DID IN FIFTH GRADE, and LIFE ON THE LEDGE, among others, and more than 20 web series, including MINUTE MAN, ROCK REGGA, THE NARROW BRIDGE PROJECT, and BLUE & RED, RESPECTFUL ENCOUNTERS OF THE POLITICAL KIND. His children’s titles include UNDERSTANDING BUDDY and IZZY’S PLACE. Inspired by his father’s example, Marc also was a B’nai Mitzvah tutor.  He and his wife made Aliyah in 2019 and now live in Tel Aviv, Israel. Nanette studied Fine Art at the Slade School of Art in London. She makes joyful, messy, character driven work that celebrates the chaotic magic of the everyday. Her work is made with inks, liquid watercolour, pencils and crayons, to create warm energetic illustrations with plenty of scribbled texture and splattered mark making. Her clients include: Ladybird Books, Lantana Publishing, Simon Kids (Simon & Schuster), Editions Auzou, Oxford University Press. Nanette lives in St. Brelade, Jersey, United Kingdom.