LISA HEPNER, Director/Producer
For the past 17 years, this Canadian-born journalist has produced a variety of films and programs for Sony Pictures Classics, HBO, A&E, PBS, Lifetime, Discovery, MTV, TLC and the CBC. Lisa has produced for acclaimed directors Jonathan Demme, Michael Apted, Julie Taymor, Lisa F. Jackson, and Bobbie Birleffi, among others. While based in NYC, Lisa could often be found at the PBS station Channel Thirteen producing a variety of programs, including the Emmy Award winning series, AIR: America's Investigative Reports. In 2003, she directed Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines that marked her documentary directorial debut. Shot in Afghanistan, Argentina, Burundi, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the US, this documentary profiles the unheralded work of women peace builders. The film had its premiere at the UN in 2003 and aired on PBS in 2004.
GUY MOSSMAN, Director/Director of Photography
Guy’s most recent work can be seen
in the feature documentary Buck
that won the Audience Award for
Documentaries at Sundance in 2011
and was shortlisted for an Academy
Award. He co-DP’d Lisa F. Jackson’s HBO documentary Sex
Crimes Unit, and he profiled a comic book artist in Morgan
Spurlock’s film Comic-Con Episode Four:
A Fan’s Hope. In 2010, he shot with Joan Rivers in Ricki Stern and
Anne Sundberg’s release, Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work. Guy
began his filmmaking career in the Peace Corps in Paraguay, and
his love of travel continues in his shoots around the globe. Guy's work has appeared on IFC, HBO, SHOWTIME,
PBS, Sundance Channel, Discovery Channel, TLC, MTV, and
the Versus Network.
BRYAN STAMP, Producer
From 2009 to 2012, Bryan was a Programmer for Outfest, the longest-running film festival in Los Angeles, a film screener for the Sundance Film Festival and a consultant for the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program. Prior to this, Bryan worked in development and production – most recently at Participant Media. From 2006 to 2009, Bryan worked closely with filmmakers and Participant’s internal marketing and social action departments on the company’s slate of award-winning feature documentary projects, including AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (dir. Davis Guggenheim), JIMMY CARTER MAN FROM PLAINS (dir. Jonathan Demme), STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE (dir. Errol Morris) and FOOD, INC. (dir. Robby Kenner).
KRISTIN LESKO, Producer
Kristin began her film career working
with veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson
on a variety of PBS films, including
The Murder of Emmett Till, A Place of
Our Own, Sweet Honey in the Rock:
Raise Your Voice, and Jonestown: The
Life and Death of Peoples Temple. Jonestown was short-listed
for a 2006 Documentary Feature Academy Award. In 2008,
Kristin co-produced the Oscar Nominated and Emmy-winning
documentary, Operation Homecoming: Writing the War Time
Experience. Recently, Kristin was an Archive Producer on the Sundance films We Live in Public (2009) and Project Rebirth (2011).
KATE AMEND, Editor
In 2005, Kate received the International Documentary Association’s award for Outstanding Achievement in Editing for her work that includes two Academy Award winning documentary features: Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport and The Long Way Home. Kate also edited the 2001 Oscar-nominated documentary short On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom.
Other credits include Jonathan Demme’s Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains (2007), Beah: A Black Woman Speaks (2005), Thin (2005) and The World According to Sesame Street (2005) which premiered at Sundance 2006; Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines (PBS, 2004); and Pandemic: Facing Aids (HBO, 2003). Amend is on the faculty of the Cinema Department at the USC and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Cinema Editors, and is an advisor at the Sundance Institute Editing Lab. Kate most recently edited the re-election video for President Obama.
JONATHAN FORMICA, Associate Producer
From San Francisco to Sub-Saharan Africa, Jonathan creates and works on documentary films that tell authentic stories reflective of the diversity, challenges, and innate beauty all around us. His work has screened theatrically at festivals internationally as well as broadcast on television in the US. Highlights include screenings at the Atlanta Film Festival, Biografilm Festival (Italy), and on PBS. Jonathan’s love of documentary and film began at age twelve and he’s studied the art form continually from middle school through college. He began working on The Human Trial while he was a film student at Chapman University and joined the team full time upon his graduation.
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