Rebecca Richman Cohen is a filmmaker with experience in international human rights and criminal defense. In law school, she worked as an investigator at the Bronx Defenders and continued to do investigative work at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, working on a legal defense team for Alex Tamba Brima in the AFRC-accused case. WAR DON DON is her first feature-length documentary as a director, a project to which she has dedicated more than three years to complete. Between trips to West Africa, she has been adjunct faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where she taught an undergraduate seminar entitled “Human Rights, Mass Atrocity, and Documentary Film” and at American University’s Human Rights Institute. Rebecca graduated from Brown University and Harvard Law School and is also an alumna of the CPB/PBS Producers Academy of the IFP Independent Filmmaker Lab.