Filmmaker Laura Israel edited award-winning commercials and music videos while still a film student at New York University. By graduation she had formed her own editorial company, Assemblage; her client list included John Lurie, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Keith Richards, Sonic Youth, New Order, Ziggy Marley, David Byrne, and artists Laurie Simmons and Robert Frank. Her debut documentary Windfall (2010) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the Viewfinders Grand Jury Prize at Doc NYC.