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  • Director/Producer: Robert Greenwald

    • Robert Greenwald is president of Brave New Films, a nonprofit film company that he founded after a career in commercial television and film to motivate and educate viewers on the most pressing issues of the day.

      Brave New Films distributes its work for free through social media and in concert with nonprofit partners and movements. The group’s movies and videos have been screened around the world and viewed over tens of millions of times...

  • Producer: Casey Cooper Johnson

    • Casey Cooper Johnson lived for 10 years in post-war Kosovo, producing documentaries and television, including the syndicated current affairs show, Life In Kosovo. At AFI, he wrote and directed the short film Unmanned (2011). Casey produced and cowrote the feature film Zana (2019), which world premiered at TIFF 2019 and was Kosovo’s submission for the 2020 Oscars. He is the Head of Production at Brave New Films, where he produced Suppressed: The Fight to Vote (2019) and Racially Charged:...

  • Co-Producer: Deborah Correa

    • Deborah Correa, is a Colombian-American director and producer who was chosen for the prestigious AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Her work spans television, film, documentary, and podcasts with both narrative and un-scripted projects. Her credits include Showtime, PBS, History Channel, Spotify, Travel Channel, iHeartRadio, and Hulu. While working on Peter Berg's Film 45/History Channel series, THE WARFIGHTERS, Deborah worked with over 90 U.S. Spec-Ops Veterans who were both in front of and behind the...

  • Associate Producer: Sean O'Brien

    • Sean O'Brien is an advocate for social justice with a lifelong commitment to effecting change through the arts. Originally from the New Orleans area, his work is shaped by the multi-cultural influence of growing up as a first-generation Nicaraguan American in Southern Louisiana. He studied theatre at Boston University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. After graduating, he worked in the New Orleans film industry, which ultimately led him to Los Angeles. At Brave New...

  • Associate Producer: Noely Mendoza

    • Noely Mendoza is a Mexican-American filmmaker from Santa Barbara. She was selected for the 2019 Brave New Films Fellowship program where she produced and edited a series on youth activism and has worked on the films Suppressed: The Fight to Vote (2019) and Racially Charged: America's Misdemeanor Problem (2021). She graduated with honors from Amherst College with a degree in Film and Media Studies. Her work focuses on uplifting the voices of those unheard, and creatively expanding the...

  • Associate Producer: Tatiana Garnett

    • Tatiana Garnett is an emerging film artist born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. Her work engages archival material to explore the intersections of documentary practice and Black and Brown selfhood. Weaving between public and personal archives, Garnett centers themes of abolition, aesthetics, community, and liberation in her work. Garnett received her BA from Occidental College where she studied Media Arts & Culture with an emphasis in Film Production. She recently completed a fellowship with the Docx Archive...

  • Director of Photography: Unni Rav

    • Unni Rav is a cinematographer based in the Bay Area, California. In 2019, he won the Oniros Film Award for Best Cinematography and the European Independent Film Platinum Award for Best Cinematographer for his feature film, DNA. His documentary projects include Magnitude 7.0 – Haiti, SHE and World War II Veterans - India. Unni is a member of the Society of Camera Operators (SOC) and the Art Directors Club (ADC). Unni obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photojournalism...

  • Editor: Brian Redondo

    • Brian Redondo is a documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. As an editor, he has cut character-driven, issue-focused films including upcoming feature documentaries Beyond Bars: A Son's Fight for Justice, about the life of progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin, and Death & Taxes about wealth inequality in America. He has also explored race, identity, and global history as editor and producer on the HBO Max docuseries Take Out with Lisa Ling, Netflix's Explained, and PBS' Artbound. Brian was also the...

  • Editor: Mainak Dhar

    • Mainak Dhar worked as an Assistant Director for Prakash Jha in India before relocating to Los Angeles to embark on a career in filmmaking in LA. A self-taught editor, He has been working in post for 11 years.  He has edited a wide range of videos - documentaries, music videos, branded content, commercials, talk show, travel show, and narrative films. He has been exploring writing and directing, with two documentary shorts, a narrative short, and a feature film...

  • Sound Designer & Re-recording Mixer: Will Roasti

    • Will Rosati is a Sound Designer/Composer from Brooklyn, NY. He has built up his sound design chops in the advertising industry working with major brands like Verizon, Adidas and Hennessy and winning AICP awards for his work. He is also a classically trained musician who writes and produces music for artists, brands, and agencies around the country. He brings these experiences to film in a unique way by blurring the line between music, sound design and mix to create impactful...

  • Motion Graphics: Besnik Krivanjeva

    • Besnik Krivanjeva is a versatile motion graphics designer based in Kosovo. He was chief of Graphic Design at Radio Television Kosovo, the country’s national public broadcaster. In addition to designing graphics for documentaries and commercials, Besnik created the graphics for the internationally syndicated current affairs program, LIFE IN KOSOVO. He is a regular collaborator on Brave New Films projects.