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He co-directed and co-produced, with Nicole Newnham, the 2021 Oscar nominated documentary, Crip Camp. The film received the 2020 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for feature length documentary, a 2021 Independent Spirit Award and a 2021 Peabody Award. Jim is the founder of Berkeley Sound Artists, an audio post production house. His film credits include Minding the Gap, The Island President, The Waiting Room, Audrie and Daisy and, of course, Crip Camp. A complete list of his film credits (over 180) can be viewed HERE. Jim’s work as an activist began in high school and continued at UC, San Diego, where he helped found the Disabled Students Union. Jim is currently a board member at the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund. He is a founding member of FWD-Doc, an organization that supports documentary filmmakers with disabilities, and a member of the Disability Futures Fellowship, an initiative of the Ford Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1244400937356c505e51fc/e779cd13-1282-40a9-8130-0224912934b0/JB_Headshot1.jpg Home - Jennilie Brewster | Producer Headshot of a blond white woman looking over her shoulder to camera with a slight smile. She’s wearing a sweater over a striped shirt with grassy sand dunes behind her lit in warm evening light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1244400937356c505e51fc/1636838206074-NZTW9ZQTV6X0H4NT1I4V/Editor_Diana+Diroy+%281%29.JPG Home - Diana Diroy | Editor Diana Diroy is a documentary editor and cinematographer. She has a love for storytelling both behind the lens and in the edit room. Diroy, a Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Lab Fellow (2022), is currently editing the feature documentary, Standing Above the Clouds. In 2019, she edited the short version of the film, which won Best Documentary Short at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Diroy was selected for 2021-22 Sundance Art of Editing Fellowship and the Karen Schmeer Diversity in the Edit Room Program in 2018. Her cinematography work has screened at Hot Docs, Sundance Film Festival, and CAAMFest. Her work reflects her interests in social justice, climate change, immigration, gender and identity. Diroy is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and continuously strives to collaborate, build community, and make magic with other creatives locally and remotely. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1244400937356c505e51fc/1637028306435-Z2ND74C2SGA0UC60RJC6/GuillermoMena_ph%2B%25281%2529.jpg Home - Guillermo Mena | Concept Artist and Animator Guillermo Mena is a visual artist and animator, born in Los Cóndores, Córdoba, Argentina. He holds a BFA from the Libero Pierini Fine Arts School from Río Cuarto and a BA in Graphic Design from the Universidad Siglo 21 from Córdoba. His work has been shown in Museums in Argentina, including the Caraffa Fine Arts Museum, the Genaro Pérez Fine Arts Museum, and the Rene Bruseau Fine Arts Museum. Various solo and group exhibitions include the Gachi Prieto Gallery (Buenos Aires), Luogo Gallery (Rafaela), and RAF Gallery (San Martin). He is currently part of the permanent artist staff of Gachi Prieto Gallery and received the National Fund for the Arts grant from Argentina Government on two occasions (2017-2019). In 2020 he participated in the Late Winter Residency Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Other residencies to highlight are EAC, Montevideo, Uruguay (2019) and ACE Foundation in Buenos Aires (2018). He was the animation director and animator for the VR Shortfilm and Series 4 Feet High (Sundance 2021, La Biennale de Venezia 2021, SXSW Jury Award and Audience Award Winner 2021). He works and lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1244400937356c505e51fc/c8a0f880-a12e-4d5c-bfbe-eb9589152ee4/IMG_5020.jpg Home - Alexandra Lenore Ashworth | Associate Producer Alexandra Lenore Ashworth aka Dzana (they/she, b. 1992, Oregon) is an American born, Filipinx, Jewish, adopted artist, filmmaker, and writer and a 2022 Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellow.While working with award-winning production team RAVA Films, Dzana produced for institutions such as PBS/Art21, the MET, Tate, and MOMA, and she has independently directed for Wellcome, Brooklyn Museum, and Henie Onstad Center. Dzana also lends their communications and producing skills to community organizations such as arts-and-justice initiative OPEN DOORS NYC, immigration rights organizers Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP), and the Abolish ICE NY-NJ Coalition. She also organizes and makes art with a collective of adopted, fostered, and trafficked people envisioning the abolition of systems of family policing and separation. Dzana is a National Geographic Explorer, and a proud member of Writers Guild of America, East, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, and the Asian American Documentary Network. They also enjoy swimming, fishing, and scifi and fantasy fiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1244400937356c505e51fc/1636836520042-LSNK2X2AOOYF1JZNJFJZ/image.jpg Home - Alexis Neophytides | Co-Director, Producer, Cinematographer Headshot of a white woman with long dark hair smiling softly at the camera. She is wearing a long sleeved black shirt and sitting in front of a window. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1244400937356c505e51fc/0e79e96c-6d58-40df-aa1b-a35d6a336c89/S-Feuquay_Headshot_02.jpg Home - Sarah Feuquay | Co-Producer Sarah Feuquay is a freelance producer based in Brooklyn with 15 years experience working on a wide range of film and television projects. Most recently she led operations, distribution, and business activities for Fork Films, a nonfiction film production company. In her work she draws from her experience working across a diversity of projects, from indie narrative features to primetime ABC News specials, functioning in multiple roles including production coordinating, logistics, research, licensing, post-production, development and grant writing. In addition, Sarah has worked both front- and back-of-house positions at film festivals, including the Tribeca Film Festival, Rooftop Films and DOC NYC. She holds a master’s degree in film studies from Emory University and a bachelor’s in film production from Hunter College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1244400937356c505e51fc/11bff256-2efc-4f80-97f5-d86f5cce77cc/_home%2523Contact%2B%25281%2529.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1244400937356c505e51fc/1636836604592-G2SUSBQBKGDW7X2G619X/Headshot+of+Dominican+man+with+a+goatee+and+reading+glasses+perched+on+top+of+his+head%2C+sitting+in+a+wheelchair+outside+on+a+sunny+day.+There+is+grass+and+water+in+the+background.+He+wears+a+light+blue+T-shirt+and+looks+straight+into+the+camera. Home - Andres “Jay” Molina | Co-Director, Cinematographer, Reality Poet Headshot of a Dominican man with a goatee and reading glasses perched on top of his head, sitting in a wheelchair outside on a sunny day. There is grass and water in the background. He wears a light blue T-shirt and looks straight into the camera with a serious expression. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1244400937356c505e51fc/1637028330323-KFLY5YDHYBMSAC7Q2SJ7/gene.jpeg Home - Gene Back | Composer Gene Back is a Korean-American film composer and multi-instrumentalist. The first American composer to have been selected as a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Breakthrough talent, his scores include critically acclaimed feature films COWBOYS (dir. Anna Kerrigan) and HOLLER (dir. Nicole Riegel). Also an artist-in-residence and National Advisory Council co-chair at the Ucross Foundation, his work spans across film music, theatre, XR, instrumental compositions, and songwriting. As a classically trained violinist and self-taught guitarist, Gene was a former live member of the electronic/folk band, The Books, and toured internationally with bands such as Gotye and Explosions in the Sky. For over 15 years, he has recorded with artists ranging from indie songwriters to Talib Kweli, and has composed music for dozens of major global advertising campaigns for Mercedes Benz, Squarespace, Google, Netflix, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, among others. Gene also loves cycling, the natural world, and continues to dream of horse ranching in Wyoming. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1244400937356c505e51fc/e55a16f2-ae42-4e07-a7d3-5fb88315356c/2.jpg Home - Rosemary McDonnell-Horita | Impact Producer Rosemary McDonnell-Horita (she/her) is a disabled Japanese-American woman living in the East Bay of California. She’s been supporting, advocating, and fiercely fighting for disability inclusion for 10+ years. In 2018 Rosemary ran Colorado’s inaugural Youth Leadership Forum for students with disabilities, in partnership with local independent living centers. 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In 2019 Vince produced his first album with fellow members of the organization. As a member of the Reality Poets, Vince has met with hundreds of youth in underserved communities and performed for audiences of all ages and backgrounds. With a grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation Vince started ZING!, a music program aimed to keep kids off the streets and in the studio. He is composing music for the forthcoming documentary Fire Through Dry Grass. Vince is the founder of the Nursing Home Lives Matter movement which seeks to protect nursing home residents and workers who have been systematically disempowered and endangered by public officials and health care administrators. #NursingHomeLivesMatter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1244400937356c505e51fc/1637028172953-E929NP8PTAC5G2RBGMNO/EDIT_BW_DCF1093.jpg Home - M’Daya Meliani | Editor M'Daya Meliani is an LA-based editor whose career spans over 19 years in television and documentary film. Emmy-nominated for her work on the award-winning A&E docu-series Born This Way, her recent work includes: House of Secrets: the Burari Deaths (Netflix), feature documentary Groomed (Discovery+), and feature documentary Minnesota Mean. Previous work includes the short documentary Red Lake, which premiered at the 2016 LA Film Fest and was nominated for Best Short Documentary at the 2016 IDA awards. M'Daya had the pleasure of being a contributing editor at the 2019 Sundance Documentary Lab and is a 2022-2023 Karen Schmeer editing fellow. Born in Paris to an Algerian father and an American mother, life-long cross-cultural musings have informed her artistic path. When she is not chasing after her little one, she is plotting to subvert the system one cut at a time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1244400937356c505e51fc/1637191105372-NQ3C53DN2WP0KV05LLKO/Reality%2BPoets-%2BPeter.jpg Home - Peter Yearwood | Co-Producer, Associate Impact Producer, Reality Poet Pete contracted polio as an infant in his home country, Belize, and has lived with a disability his whole life. In 1970, he emigrated to Brooklyn and met the mother of his children. When that relationship ended, Pete fell into the street life, using and selling drugs. In 2015, many years sober, Pete moved into Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center, where he met his OPEN DOORS brothers, aka the Reality Poets. He is both a member and manager of the group, which now includes women. Pete played the role of narrator in the play FADE, based on the Reality Poets’ true stories. FADE premiered at the Main Street Theatre on Roosevelt Island in 2019. 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