About the author David Shulman is a BAFTA and TV Academy Award winning documentary producer and director. Originally from New York City, David moved to London in 2000 in the context of a U.S./UK Fulbright Fellowship. By 2005, he became one of the few Americans to gain a staff position at the BBC where for 10 years he produced and directed science, history, and arts programs. David conceived the format and directed the first two seasons of the long running 'Reality TV' series Rough Science which was produced by the BBC in association with Open University scientists. It became one of the most successful and acclaimed science series in Open University history and is distributed globally. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in NYC, as an artist and experimental filmmaker, David has long been driven by a deep curiosity about how social systems work and a passion for social justice. His earliest experimental films focused on linguistic dimensions of memory, cognition, and consciousness - and were exhibited at the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Anthology Film Archives, and the New Museum. They were distributed by Castelli and Sonnabend Galleries. David has made acclaimed feature documentaries about racism in American Network news coverage of urban violence - Race Against Prime Time (PBS), the pivotal role of Black landowners in Mississippi during the civil rights revolution of the 1960's - Dirt & Deeds in Mississippi (Smithsonian Channel), stories of resistance inside Nazi concentration camps - Auschwitz Untold: In Colour (Channel Four/History Channel), a BAFTA winning portrait of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat - Basquiat: Rage to Riches (PBS/BBC) and a feature documentary about digital art on the blockchain - NFT: WTF? (Netflix) 'AXION: The Memory Rights Uprising' is a story that combines several areas of passionate interest to the author: memory, social justice, and notions of property rights.