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DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/WRITER/CINEMATOGRAPHER

Sara Terry

Sara Terry is a mid-career director whose work explores how we define our humanity and the role of community in helping us understand what our humanity looks like. Her first documentary, Fambul Tok (2011), about an unprecedented grass roots forgiveness program in Sierra Leone, was supported by Sundance and Chicken and Egg and won several awards at more than hundred festivals world-wide.

Fambul Tok was included on Paste magazine’s list of 100 best documentaries of all time. FOLK, Terry’s second documentary, followed three singer-songwriters through the sub-culture of American folk music; the film enjoyed a successful niche film and music festival run, including DOC NYC, Nashville Film Festival and Bonnaroo Music Festival. Terry is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild, and has worked as a story consultant/consulting producer/grant writer on more than a dozen documentaries, including Hao Wu’s People’s Republic of Desire (2018), Kimberly Reed’s Dark Money (2018), Michael Collins’ and Marty Syjuco’s Almost Sunrise (2017), Nanfu Wang’s One Child Nation (2019), Johanna Demetrakas’ FEMINISTS: What Were They Thinking (2018), Lisa Hepner’s The Human Trial (in post) and Sandra Salas’s Into the Storm (in post). Terry is a Sundance Documentary Fellow, a Film Independent Independent Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow in Photography, a Logan Non-Fiction Fellow and a member of VII photo agency.

Her third documentary, A Decent Home, which she directed, filmed and produced will premiere in fall 2021. It is supported by Ford Foundation, IDA/Pare Lorentz, Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, Perspective Fund, Cal Humanities, Rogovy Foundation, LEF Foundation, Film Independent Doc Labs, Only in New York/DOC NYC and several individual funders including Julie Parker Benello.

 

EDITOR / WRITER

VICTORIA CHALK

Victoria Chalk is a European-Asian film editor with over 15 years of post-production experience. She most recently edited 2 episodes of the Peabody winning PBS documentary series “ASIAN AMERICANS”, with Renee Tajima-Pena, Leo Chiang and Grace Lee.

She has editing credits on a wide array of critically acclaimed projects :

Yu Gu’s feature documentary “A Woman’s Work” which premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, PJ Raval’s feature documentary “Call Her Ganda,” (Tribeca 2018, Hotdocs, LAAPFF winner, Best Editing, Young Critics Choice, Philippines); “Ovarian Psycos,” a feature documentary directed by Joanna Sokolowski and Kate Trumbull-Lavalle (SXSW 2016, Hotdocs); “Vivre, jusqu’au bout...,” a narrative short directed by Vincent Plaidy (award winner at the 2010 Rhode Island International FF and the prestigious CNC Prix de Qualité); and additional editing on “Before You Know It,” directed by PJ Raval (SXSW, 2013).

She is currently editing PJ Raval’s In Plain Sight documentary anthology series. Victoria is a DOCNY 2020 40 under 40 honoree, the 2019 Karen Schmeer Editing Fellow and organizes with A-DOC, the Asian American Documentary Network. She is a Star Wars nerd and likes fast internet.Her films have been presented on platforms such as Netflix, PBS, and HBO. Alysa is the lead creative advisor for Film Independent’s Global Media Makers documentary track, and she is a 2019 Sundance Institute Momentum Fellow, a founder of FWD-Doc (Documentary Filmmakers with Disabilities) as an ally, and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

PRODUCER

ALYSA NAHMIAS

Alysa Nahmias is an award-winning filmmaker and founder of AJNA Films. She directed and produced the feature documentaries Krimes (2021) about contemporary artist Jesse Krimes who smuggled out large-scale conceptual artwork while incarcerated, The New Bauhaus (2019), about modernist visionary László Moholy-Nagy, and Unfinished Spaces, about the Cuban National Art Schools, which won a 2012 Independent Spirit Award, was distributed by PBS and Netflix, and is in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York.

Alysa produced the Emmy-nominated and Oscar-shortlisted Unrest directed by Jennifer Brea, which won a Special Jury Award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and was distributed by Netflix and PBS Independent Lens. Her producing credits also include the scripted feature No Light and No Land Anywhere, directed by Amber Sealey with executive producer Miranda July (Jury Award winner, LA Film Festival 2016), and the documentaries What We Left Unfinished, directed by Mariam Ghani (Berlinale, SFFILM 2019) distributed by Dekanalog; Weed and Wine (Deauville, Hot Docs 2020), directed by Rebecca Richman Cohen; and American Masters' Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq directed by Nancy Buirski with creative advisor Martin Scorsese (NY Film Festival, Berlinale 2013). Alysa has been featured in Filmmaker Magazine as an independent film innovator. She is a 2020 Film Independent Fellow and a 2019 Sundance Institute Momentum Fellow. She was the co-author of the groundbreaking Sundance Creative Distribution Case Study on Unrest. She holds degrees from New York University and Princeton University. Alysa is a founding member of FWD-Doc as an ally who is committed to advocating for disability rights and inclusion, and she is a member of the Documentary Producers Alliance (DPA) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

 

PRODUCER

SARA ARCHAMBAULT

Sara Archambault is a Creative Producer dedicated to the craft of artful nonfiction storytelling. She has an extensive history in production, programming and foundation work, including 10 years as LEF Foundation's Program Director, and 9 years as Head Programmer of the award-winning nonfiction series The DocYard. Past credits include Associate Producer on Emmy-nominated documentary Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North (Sundance 2008, POV), and Producer on Sundance-supported documentary Street Fighting Men (IFFBoston 2017), award-winning short Community Patrol (Big Sky, T/F 2018), and Truth or Consequences (Rotterdam 2020).

Sara's work has played in festivals around the world, and received support from the Sundance Institute, Tribeca Film Institute, Hot Docs International Pitch Forum, Catapult Film Fund, SFFilm, Film Independent, and CPH:FORUM among others. She is a 2020 Impact Partners Producing Fellow, a 2013 Sundance Creative Producers Lab Fellow and was named the 2020 SF DocFest Vanguard Awardee.

 

CO-PRODUCER

GRETCHEN LANDAU

Gretchen Landau is a producer and former marketing executive at ABC, ESPN and Disney. She is co-founder of Drop of Water Entertainment where current projects in development include the television series, MAGGIE MACKAY: MAGICAL TRACKER and the documentary FEELING SEEN. She is a member of the producing team for the feature film, CHARLOTTE based on Leben oder Theater? (Life or Theater? ) an autobiographical painted play by Charlotte Salomon. Gretchen’s producing credits include the Netflix Original documentary, FEMINISTS: WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?, the indie doc, FOLK, and an award winning series of short films with producing partners Mindy Cohn & Michael Allen. She also served as Production Supervisor for Academy Award-winner Francis Ford Coppola’s film, DISTANT VISION. Landau is a former board member and current member of the Documentary Producers Alliance (DPA).

  • Tom Neff

    Executive Producer

  • Jonathan Logan

    Executive Producer

  • James Costa

    Executive Producer

  • Kirby Dick

    Executive Producer

  • Emily Deschanel

    Executive Producer

  • Kate Amend

    Consulting Editor

  • Doug Pray

    Consulting Producer

  • Abby Disney

    Advisor