DIRECTOR

Lynn is an award-winning producer, writer and director whose career creating media spans more than 20 years. Her work has aired on networks across the globe, including NBC, PBS, Discovery, History Channel, BBC, Channel 4, MTV and Showtime. Her expertise in developing non-fiction programming includes recent series on both Investigation Discovery and OWN. Lynn is currently directing her first feature documentary, DRAW THE LINE. As a member of the Producers Guild of America, she has served as chair for the Documentary Committee and the Women’s Impact Network (WIN). Lynn is a former board chair of GBYM, an organization that works with young people from underserved communities, teaching them how to use media to empower, engage and transform. She was a 2020 Docs in Progress Fellow and is a graduate of Northwestern University.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Erin is an award-winning writer, director, and producer with more than 20 years of experience in media production, strategy, storytelling, and content curation. She has written, directed, and produced films for PBS, the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, the History Channel, and Court TV, and worked with brands like Sony, Apple, Acura, and The Gap. Erin produced and co-wrote the independent documentary, MINE winner of the audience award at SXSW and San Francisco's Doc Fest. Her new venture, Feisty Aphrodite, focuses on original content creation and media strategy. She is also the founder of More Perfect US, an initiative that explores what the American Dream means in the 21st century. Erin is a past President of Women in Film and former board chair of GBYM. She currently serves on the board of Docs in Progress and the advisory board for the Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business Executive Center.

CONSULTING PRODUCER

Angela is a writer, director, and Peabody and Emmy award-winning producer who makes narrative and documentary films. Her most recent projects are THE TREES REMEMBER, a fiction series in collaboration with REI Co-op Studios and I CAN’T CHANGE 400 YEARS IN FOUR (co-directed with Kristi Jacobson), a short documentary currently streaming on Mother Jones and PBS' Independent Lens. Her directorial work includes ALL SKINFOLK, AIN’T KINFOLK, a documentary short which aired on PBS’ Reel South; ALL STYLES a dance narrative feature available on Showtime; BLACK FOLK DON’T, a documentary web series featured in Time Magazine’s 10 IDEAS THAT ARE CHANGING YOUR LIFE; and (A)SEXUAL, a feature length documentary about people who experience no sexual attraction that streamed on Netflix and Hulu. Angela was the Producer of BELLY OF THE BEAST (dir. Erika Cohn) which broadcast on PBS' Independent Lens and was a NY Times Critics Pick. She was the Director of Production at Big Mouth Productions and Co-Executive Producer of the PBS series, AfroPop. Her production company, TuckerGurl, is passionate about stories that highlight underrepresented communities in unconventional ways. Angela was a Sundance Institute Women Filmmakers Initiative Fellow and a recipient of the inaugural William Greaves Fund from Firelight Media. She received her MFA in Film from Columbia University.

STORY PRODUCER

Vicki Warren spent a year in South Africa as an American Field Service scholar when Apartheid was the law of the land. The injustices she witnessed hardened her resolve to become a journalist. Working as an investigative reporter for columnist Jack Anderson honed those skills. She added filmmaking to the mix when she joined the Emmy-award winning documentary team at Time-Life and continued creating programming for other outlets, including the Discovery Channel’s award-winning Great Books series. In 2002, Vicki was part of a small group that gathered the personal testimonies of eyewitnesses to the terrorist attacks on 9/11. That project became the focus of the recent documentary MEMORY BOX: ECHOES OF 9/11. Community based advocacy, such as finding a home in the local library for a youth media organization and revitalizing a commercial kitchen so food-based vendors can start their own business, is essential to her work.

EDITOR, STORY PRODUCER

At age 16, Jen knew she wanted to be a documentary film editor. As a college student three years later, edited her first film, Boys in Winter, about the beloved Brooklyn Dodger PeeWee Reese. Since then, she’s been honing the craft of transforming 100 (or 400) hours of footage into moving and relevant stories. Jen has over a dozen feature documentaries to her credit, including the Emmy Award-winning TIME FOR ILHAN, Sundance premiere RESILIENCE, HBO’s TOXIC HOT SEAT, THE BIG PICTURE: RETHINKING DYSLEXIA, and the SXSW Audience Award-winning MINE. Among the four films she has cut for James Redford, two seminal projects on childhood trauma (RESILIENCE and PAPER TIGERS) have had more than 50,000 community screenings around the country and have helped spark a national conversation around what it means to be trauma-informed.

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

Bruno Falcon has spent the last decade working as a switch hitter across the industry. While much of his work has been producing, directing, and editing political media from city council seats to the White House, his passion is for character driven interviews and narratives. Bruno’s is sought after for production and support on podcasts ranging from business education to social cohesion to healthcare and the economy. Known as the “Swiss-army Jesus” of any project, Bruno brings a breadth of skill and creative energy to the team.

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Sheila is an award-winning director of photography with extensive experience filming documentaries, television programs, commercials, independent features, PSAs, political spots, dance, and music. Her clients include BBC, PBS, NBC, ABC, Lifetime, and many others. She specializes in lighting, visual storytelling, and Steadicam. Among a long list of awards, she was recently recognized for Best Cinematography for Feature Film in the North Europe International Film Festival 2020 in London. Sheila has filmed all over the US and the world for documentaries, television shows and military projects. She is a perfect team player with technical competence, exceptional artistic and creative sensibilities, deep compassion for the people she films, and experience crafting documentary stories of people from all walks of life. Sheila connects with and understands the key elements of every story and brings them to life through the visuals she creates and captures.

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Thomas is an Emmy award-winning DP and Director, who specializes in creating cinematic-quality commercial, lifestyle, and documentary content. He has dedicated his life to waking up at 3 a.m. to capture a beautiful sunrise and enduring -30-degree temperatures to grab the perfect shot. Currently residing outside of Asheville, NC, Thomas is happy to call western North Carolina home.