Tamar Lando
DIRECTOR & PRODUCER
Tamar Lando is a documentary photographer/filmmaker and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Her photographs of the Mimbres River Valley, NM, can be seen here. Several images from this series were exhibited at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles. Her short film OUR MOTHER THE MOUNTAIN screened at Sheffield. LAND WITH NO RIDER is her debut feature.
Judith Mizrachy
PRODUCER
Judith Mizrachy is a New York City-based independent producer. Her film THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT premiered at Sundance 2022 and was nominated for the 2023 Academy Award for Best Short Documentary. Other credits include THE BOOKSELLERS (NYFF 2019) and UNCROPPED (DOC NYC 2023 Centerpiece), named one of the Best Documentaries of the Year by Variety and Vogue.
Hunter Robert Baker
PRODUCER
Hunter Robert Baker is an Emmy® Award winning feature film, television, and commercial producer and director of photography. His work has been nominated for 4 Emmy® Awards. Hunter has worked on Navajo Nation for over a decade bringing powerful stories from the frontline of desert communities to the front pages of media outlets globally. Most recently, Baker worked on the award-winning fiction anthology series HBO’s True Detective: Night Country, Starring Jodi Foster and Kali Reis. The series received 19 Emmy® Award nominations and three Golden Globe Awards including Best Limited Series. He is founder of Turquoise Horse production company.
Beth Levison
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Beth Levison is an Emmy and Peabody-winning producer/director. She is also an Academy Award nominee for THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT (Netflix 2022), a documentary short that premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Her previous film, "Storm Lake", which she directed/produced alongside Jerry Risius, won the Audience Award at AFI DOCS, and broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens. Other producing credits include "Women in Blue" (Independent Lens, 2020), Emmy-nominated "Made in Boise" (Independent Lens, 2019), Emmy nominated "Personal Statement"(PBS, 2018), and "32 Pills" (HBO, 2017). Levison is the founder of Hazel Pictures, a co-founder of the Documentary Producers Alliance, and a member of the Academy.
Brad Fuller
EDITOR
Brad Fuller began his career as associate editor on Errol Morris’ first film, Gates of Heaven. They went on to work on six more films together, including Vernon, Florida (editor), A Brief History in Time (editor), Standard Operating Procedure (co-editor), and Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (additional editor). Other editing credits include Gary Oldman’s BAFTA Award-winning dramatic feature Nil by Mouth, Neil Burger’s Interview with the Assassin, the Oscar-nominated documentary short Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story, and the feature documentaries Every Little Step–shortlisted for the 2010 Oscars–Countdown to Zero, Rebirth, The Price of Everything, Davis Guggenheim’s He Named Me Malala and Free Solo (additional editor).
Peter Albrechtsen
SOUND DESIGNER
Peter Albrechtsen is an acclaimed Danish sound designer and mixer working on both Scandinavian and international movies. Recent credits include the horror smash hit Evil Dead Rise, the Oscar nominated documentaries The Cave and A House Made of Splinters and festival favorites like Omaha, The Killing of Two Lovers and As In Heaven. In 2017, Peter became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and is also a member of both the MPSE, CAS and AMPS, the three most distinguished global film sound organizations. He has received several international awards for his work and in the US, he’s been nominated twice for outstanding achievement in sound design at the Cinema Eye Honors and seven times for the MPSE Golden Reel Awards. Has written about sound and movies for different Danish and international magazines and lectured about sound design around the world.
Nathan Halpern
COMPOSER
Nathan Halpern is an Emmy-nominated composer, named a 'Composer to Watch' by Classic FM and Indiewire. His score for acclaimed psychological thriller SWALLOW (IFC Films) was named "a highlight of the film" (Indiewire) and received a Hollywood Music in Media nomination for "Best Original Score" (Horror). He composed the scores of two films from Barack Obama's 2018 Best Films of the Year list: Chloe Zhao's THE RIDER (Sony Pictures Classics) and the Oscar-nominated MINDING THE GAP (Hulu). Halpern's score for THE RIDER was featured at #3 in Vulture/New York Magazine's 10 Best Movies Scores of The Year, described as "a plaintively lovely score" (LA Times) and "a beautiful score" (Screen Anarchy).
Carolina Costa
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Carolina Costa was named as one of American Cinematographer’s rising stars in 2018. She won the SXSW 2023 ZEISS Cinematography Award for her work on FANCY DANCE, Tribeca’s 2023 Best Cinematography Award for her work on THE GRADUATES, the 2022 Women in Media + ZEISS Altitude Award, and was on Variety’s list of “10 Latinxs To Watch in 2020”. Other credits include Tara Miele’s WANDER DARKLY (Sundance 2020), BABENCO: TELL ME WHEN I DIE which won the Best Documentary Award at Venice Film Festival, WORKFORCE (TIFF), as well as HALA (Sundance), and the multiple award-winning feature CRYSTAL SWAN, which was Belarus’s first Oscar submission in 22 years. Costa’s first feature as a cinematographer, THE CHOSEN ONES, premiered at Cannes and won the Ariel Award for Best Cinematography.
Gareth Paul Cox
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Cox’s most recent credits include Let There Be Drums! (2022) and the MTV Docudrama series Siesta Key (2017–2021). He is known for his work on Just Be (2020), White Wolves (2019), Nike 5.0 Determination (2015) and HBO’s Hard Knocks, where the entire camera team won an Emmy. His work has taken him to locations around the world, including Zanzibar, Fiji, Nicaragua, and Vietnam. Originally from England, Gareth currently splits his time between Los Angeles, California, and Northeastern Florida.