Meet the team
Tarek Albaba Founder
Tarek Albaba is an award-winning Lebanese/Palestinian American filmmaker with more than two decades of experience spanning television series, documentaries, and narrative films. His work has been distributed on Apple TV+, Disney+, National Geographic, PBS, TRT World, Discovery, Watermelon + and History.
His independent films explore historical injustices, urgent social issues, and threats to our natural world. His feature documentary debut, 36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime, premiered at DOC NYC in 2023, earned international acclaim and awards, and is now distributed on major platforms.
This year, Tarek was named a Wyncote Fellow for public media and most recently selected for the prestigious Sundance Film Institute’s Building Bridges Fellowship. He believes storytelling is a vital tool for accountability, empathy, and real change.
Noreen Dimster-Denk
Producer
Noreen Dimster-Denk is a Producer and Directors Guild of America member whose career spans feature films, television, and independent productions. With a foundation in Unit Production Management and First Assistant Directing, she has spent decades overseeing budgets, schedules, crews, and on-set execution for complex productions across a wide range of environments.
In a notable instance of her work with The Late Late Show with James Corden, Noreen coordinated live musical performances staged at an active Manhattan intersection, working with talent including Hugh Jackman, Zendaya, and Zac Efron. Her calm under pressure was essential in keeping the cast and crew focused within a high-risk, real-time production environment. On studio features such as Terminator Genisys, Noreen worked from development through principal photography, collaborating with executive and line producers on early schedules, budgets, and tax incentive analysis across multiple jurisdictions. Her ground-up involvement on projects of this scale deepened her understanding of studio workflows and cross-departmental collaboration.
Working across live productions, studio features, and independent films, Noreen brings a producer’s perspective shaped by experience at every budget level. From small independents to large studio projects, she applies disciplined execution and creative sensitivity to complex, socially and historically significant stories.
Sam Blan
Executive Producer
Sam Blan is a first-generation Palestinian American and a serial entrepreneur spanning the entertainment and tech industries.
Starting in the film industry in 2005, his goal was to work on socially aware projects. He has worked on films bringing to light the horrors of child trafficking and our changing climate. He works on tech that will democratize liquidity globally. A lifelong advocacy proponent starting a 501c3 ‘One Olive Organization,’ he believes the future is associated with real-time communication, creativity, community, and bottom-up initiatives driven by humans.
Currently, through his firm, he is a fractional COO for one of the largest content creator agencies in the world proliferating across various platforms. His aphorism is: “everyone has a story to tell, and it is theirs to tell it.”
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