PRODUCER / WRITER / DIRECTOR

Stephen Ujlaki has produced over 30 feature films and documentaries, including PATRIOTISM, INC., against the Vietnam War and WITH INTENT TO HARM which advocated prison reform. Under the banner of the Doc Film Institute, which he created with Tom Luddy, co-founder of Telluride, he produced CACHAO: UNO MAS for PBS American Masters. From 2010-2018 Ujlaki was Dean of the School of Film and Television at Loyola Marymount University. While dean, he produced THE HOLLYWOOD MASTERS, 50 filmed interviews with Hollywood and European movie greats, a series he sold to Netflix. Stephen is currently a professor of screenwriting at Loyola Marymount University and a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

CO-DIRECTOR / CO-PRODUCER

Chris Jones is a documentarian concerned with themes of environmental and social justice. His short-documentaries TRASH, MANUFACTURED and JUNK have raised global awareness about the impacts of plastic-pollution in our oceans. Chris recently served as an associate editor on LIKE A ROLLING STONE: THE LIFE & TIMES OF BEN FONG-TORRES and was the editor/co-writer of  WAKE UP: STORIES FROM THE FRONTLINES OF SUICIDE PREVENTION.  Chris received his BA in Film Studies from UC Berkeley and his MFA in Film and TV Production from Loyola Marymount University.

EDITOR / CO-WRITER

Alexander Baer is a documentary editor and producer with a passion for telling stories from diverse and underexplored backgrounds. He previously worked as associate editor for LIKE A ROLLING STONE: THE LIFE & TIMES OF BEN FONG-TORRES (Netflix), and WHO’S BETTER THAN YOU (in production). Alec received a BA in Film Production from San Francisco State University before graduating with an MFA in Film and Television Production from Loyola Marymount University.

CO-PRODUCER

Doug Blush is an award-winning producer and editor whose work includes over 130 feature and television projects, including the 2022 Peabody Award-winning MR. SOUL!, the 2019 Academy Award-winning PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE., and the 2018 Academy Award-winning ICARUS. Recent projects include JUSTICE, which premiered at Sundance this year, and THE ELEPHANT WHISPERERS, which was awarded the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film at the 95th annual Academy Awards in 2023. Doug is a member of both the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the American Cinema Editors (ACE).

ARCHIVAL PRODUCER

Amanda Marie Pinedo is an Emmy® award winning documentary film and television producer from Los Angeles California. She started her career in film at KCET California’s PBS station. Helping produce the series ARTBOUND, CITY RISING, and BORDER BLASTER. Since PBS she has worked in development for multiple networks such as HBO, Hulu, and BBC. Amanda graduated from Pace University with a double major in Film and Latin American Studies.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Peter D. Graves has been directly involved (either as Producer, C-Level Executive or Executive Consultant) in the production and/or marketing/release of over 200 films, which have accounted for 60 Academy Award nominations, 15 Academy Awards and over $4 billion in worldwide gross. In addition to BAD FAITH, Graves has producing credits on eighteen films including TERMINATOR SALVATION, Oliver Stone's W., PLANET 51, KILLER ELITE, and INTERCEPTOR. He previously served as co-President and COO of PolyGram Films and currently heads up his own film production, marketing and financial consulting firm, Cinemarket, LLC. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

A 1967 graduate of UCLA, John Ptak was part of The American Film Institute’s staff in 1969. He worked thereafter as a Hollywood talent agent, with clients such as National Lampoon, Costa Gavras, Terry Gilliam, Sydney Pollack, John Singleton, Tony Scott, Ridley Scott and Peter Weir. He created a consultancy structure as an agent to represent the financing and distribution of over 100 films, including CRASH, DANCES WITH WOLVES, DRIVING MISS DAISY and TRUE ROMANCE. He was an Executive Producer of Peter Weir’s THE WAY BACK, Matt Reeves’ LET ME IN, Terry Gilliam’s DR. PARNASSUS and the documentary, BE NATURAL. Ptak is a Board Member of The American Archive of Public Broadcasting, The National Film Preservation Board, The UCLA Film & Television Archive and Heyday Books.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Michael Steed has been a professional investor for over 30 years. Among his many investments, he has invested in various film ventures and entertainment companies in New York and Los Angeles. He philanthropically supports educational and historical institutions and organizations that support global democracy, homelessness, and food for the hungry.

He received his Bachelor of Arts from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and his JD from Loyola Law School. Following law school, he served as a prosecutor in the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office.

He sits on a number of Boards including as a member of the Board of Trustees of Loyola Marymount University.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Todd Stiefel lives in Raleigh, NC, and is the founder and president of the Stiefel Freethought Foundation and president of Heretical Reason Productions. He is the founder and chair of the ScienceSaves campaign. In 2009 he transitioned from Chief Strategy Officer of Stiefel Laboratories to investor, activist, and philanthropist.

NARRATOR

Peter Coyote has performed as an actor in over 160 films for theaters and TV with directors like: Barry Levinson, Roman Polanski, Pedro Almodovar and Steven Spielberg. He has narrated over 150 documentary films, including 14 for Ken Burns, and won two Emmys. 

His memoir of the 1960’s counter-culture, Sleeping Where I Fall, was featured on three best-seller lists and his second book, The Rainman’s Third Cure, about mentors and the search for wisdom, was nominated as one of top five nonfiction books in California in 2015. His newest book, Zen in the Vernacular, is being released in March 2024 by Inner Traditions Press.

He is also an ordained Zen Buddhist priest and “transmitted” teacher in Sunryu Suzuki-roshi’s lineage.

COMPOSER

Emmy nominated GRAMMY® winner Lili Haydn is a composer, songwriter, singer, and violinist. Well known for her six critically acclaimed major label recordings as a solo artist, and her legendary collaborations with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, and George Clinton's P-Funk All Stars, Lili has taken her unique melodic and harmonic sensibility and emotionally penetrating musical voice into composing for film and television with 19 feature films/documentaries to her credit, and the hit Netflix series GINNY & GEORGIA, for which she earned an Emmy nomination in 2023. Lili is a2x HMMA nominee, BMI Award winner, Sundance Fellow, and winner for Best Music at the Milan International Film Festival.

A graduate of Brown University in political science, Lili is a lifelong activist, and believes music and stories have the power to heal and uplift…important now more than ever.

DESIGN CONSULTANT

A graduate of UC Berkeley Jackie Clark Mancuso has worked as a Book Designer at Nolo Press and Art Director at Time Warner in New York.

For the past 15 years has worked exclusively as a painter and author/illustrator of children’s picture books about Hudson, an American dog who moves to France. PARIS CHIEN: Adventures of an Expat Dog; HUDSON IN PROVENCE; and HUDSON AND THE PUPPY: Lost in Paris.

“Her cheerful paintings, illustrations, and children's books celebrate the beauty in everyday life and make us want to reach for our passports.” THE ARTFUL REVIEW

Original work and prints are available at Artfully Walls, Watson Kennedy and jackieclarkmancuso.com