Dawn Logsdon, PRODUCER, Director, EDITOR

DAWN LOGSDON's career has been dedicated to making films about civic issues and city life, particularly at the neighborhood level. She directed and produced Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans (2008) which premiered nationally at the Tribeca International Film Festival. It went on to win the SFIFF Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary and was a PBS Black History Month feature presentation three years in a row. Dawn co-directed and edited Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton (2013) and Lindy Boggs: Steel and Velvet (2008). Dawn edited the Sundance Award-winning Paragraph 175 by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Freidman, Academy Award-nominated Weather Underground by Sam Green, Emmy award-winning Have You Heard from Johannesburg? by Connie Field, the Peabody award-winning The Castro by Peter Stein and the critically-acclaimed feature-length essay films The Joy of Life and The Royal Road by Jenni Olson. Short films Dawn produced and directed include Tomboy, which was exhibited at the Whitney Museum and aired on PBS. Dawn received a BA in Philosophy from UC Berkeley. Her honors include a Soros OSI Media Fellowship, California Arts Council Artist Residency, BAVC Media Maker Award, Djerassi Artist Residency, Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship, New Orleans Contemporary Art Center Artist Fellowship, and the New Orleans Arts Council Award.

LUCIE Faulknor, Producer, CO-Director

LUCIE FAULKNOR produced and researched Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans and has worked with award-winning directors Dorothy Fadiman and Lynn Hershman-Leeson in the areas of fundraising, publicity, outreach and community engagement. Faulknor has also produced Dublin Ireland's first Women in Film & Television film festival and presented a lecture series that included Laurie Anderson, Bobby McFerrin, Wayne Shorter, Sydney Pollack and others. She has worked for a number of arts organizations including City Arts & Lectures, SFJAZZ, Presidio Theatre, Palace of Fine Arts Theater, the Irish Arts Foundation, Stern Grove Festival, Yerba Buena Gardens, Dublin (IRL) Fringe Festival and for a number individual performing and visual artists including Jim Campilongo, Storm Large, Tracy Snelling and Kevin Woodson. She has a Master's degree in Nonprofit Administration from USF's School of Business & Professional Studies and a B.A. in Arts Management from SFSU. Lucie is a fourth generation San Francisco Public Library user.

Stanley Nelson, Executive Producer

STANLEY NELSON was an executive producer on Serendipity Films, Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans. He is among the premier documentary filmmakers working today. He is the founder of Firelight Media. In addition to honors for his films, Nelson and his work have garnered every major award in the industry. He is a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, and was awarded an individual Peabody Award, the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts Sciences, and received the National Medal in the Humanities from President Barack Obama. Nelson's films include: Jonestown: The Life & Death of Peoples Temple, Wounded Knee: The Murder of Emmett Till, Freedom Riders: The Black Panthers, Vanguard of the Revolution: Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, and most recently, We Got the Funk for PBS.

Marcia Smith, Executive Producer

MARCIA SMITH is Co-founder and former President of Firelight Media, which supports diverse filmmakers, connects media to audiences in service of social change. In 2015, Firelight Media was honored with a MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. Smith has written several films alongside documentarian Stanley Nelson. Marcia served as Senior Vice President at The Atlantic Philanthropies, a multi-billion dollar charitable foundation active in seven countries. Among other awards, Marcia has received a Primetime Emmy nomination for writing, won the Writers’ Guild Award for best nonfiction writing, a 2016 Muse Award from New York Women in Film & Television, and was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from DOCNYC. Marcia is a member of AMPAS, currently sits on the Peabody Board of Directors - East Coast, and is a member of the Board for Martha's Vineyard Film Society.

Dominique Bravo, Executive Producer

DOMINIQUE BRAVO is a lawyer, advocate, and producer representing and advising community and arts organizations and artists. She is a member of the board of directors of St Ann’s Warehouse, a performing arts institution in Brooklyn, New York, as well as of American Oversight, a nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog enforcing the public’s right to government records. Dominique previously served as the Associate Director of the Center on Race, Law and Justice at Fordham Law School; as General Counsel of the Roosevelt Institute; and as General Counsel of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists before its merger with the Screen Actors Guild. Dominique also produces documentaries, including Dori Previn, On My Way to Where, a documentary film that is scheduled for release in 2024; CRIMINAL, An Animated Musical Documentary, a short documentary that will be distributed by The New Yorker; and Steal This Story Please!, a documentary-in-progress about Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!. Dominique received her J.D. from Northeastern School of Law and her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.

NANCY BLACHMAN, Executive Producer

NANCY BLACHMAN has been working over the past 15 years with filmmakers to shine the light on people in difficult situations, uplift marginalized voices, humanize and make their stories accessible, and encourage viewers to take action. Documentaries she has supported include Aftershock, Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse, Ailey, Athlete A, Counted Out, Crip Camp, Dark Money, The Fight, and The Social Dilemma. Nancy often watches documentary films at home while rowing on her indoor rower.

Ellen Schneider, Executive Producer

ELLEN SCHNEIDER has been a leader in social justice media strategies for over 25 years. Drawing on decades of hands-on experience, Ellen Schneider has pioneered strategies, frameworks, and other resources that have helped shape the sphere of “social impact media.” As executive producer of the PBS series POV she introduced models that measurably increased the power of independent documentary in public life. She founded Active Voice/Lab, one of the first teams to leverage story-based media to put human faces on complex social and policy issues, such as immigration and juvenile justice. Ellen is currently focused on improving creative partnerships among storytellers, funders, issue experts, and others dedicated to social justice; and has shared this expertise with media-savvy clients like Sundance/Skoll Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Participant Media.

Vicente Franco, Director of Photography

VICENTE FRANCO has more than one hundred documentary credits, including the Academy Award-nominated films The Most Dangerous Man in America – Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Freedom on My Mind, and The Barber of Birmingham. He co-directed/co-produced and filmed the Oscar-nominated Daughter from Danang, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

Ellie McCutcheon, Co-Producer, Data Wrangler

ELLIE MCCUTCHEON is a cinematographer and drone pilot living in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California. Her work has been featured on HBO, Netflix, The Washington Post, NPR, KQED, and beyond. She also teaches drone cinematography at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, and films live music sessions for her youtube channel, Sweet Harmony Sessions. Ellie relies heavily on the high-speed wifi offered at the public library in her rural town of Nevada City, California (yay rural broadband initiatives!)

Elizabeth Finlayson, EditOR and Co-writer

ELIZABETH FINLAYSON is an editor and writing consultant who brings decades of experience as an editor and writer for documentary film and video. In addition to In and Out of Time, her credits include the award-winning films Satya: A Prayer for the Enemy, The Kids of Survival: Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Samsara, Barbie Nation, and Blink.

Debra Schaffner, Editor

DEBRA SCHAFFNER is an editor and filmmaker of all things short and long, with an emphasis on art, education and body parts. Her work has screened at venues including SF DOC FEST, DOCS/MX, FRAMELINE and aired on PBS and SMG (China). She enjoys breaking into zoos and setting all the monkeys and penguins free, but has never been arrested. She is currently directing her first feature doc, Curse of the Mutant Heirloom, with support from Cal Humanities and the BAVC MediaMaker program.

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Associate Editor

Eric Risher, Assistant Editor

ERIC RISHER has worked as an assistant editor films that have screened at numerous festivals, including AFI Docs, Full Frame, Telluride, and The Cleveland International Film Festival. His first film was a short documentary called FURRIES, which had its world premiere at the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco.

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Composer

Derrick Hodge, Composer

DERRICK HODGE is a two-time grammy Award-winning bassist and Blue Note Recording Artist. Hodge has written and arranged for both the recording and live arenas, from composing original music for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, to arranging for Nas and the National Symphony Orchestra, as well as composing the original work Infinite Reflections for the Chicago Brass Ensemble. He has also directed and scored other projects—from acting as co-Musical Director for the 2015 Triumph Awards and arranging strings for Mos Def’s 2008 premiere at Carnegie Hall—to writing for films such as Back to School Mom, the 180 Days documentary series for PBS, Land of Opportunity, Black Candle, The Army Recruiter and Uneasy Listening. Early film work includes When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts for which he did additional writing and scoring; Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?, and Faubourg Tremé: A Story of Black New Orleans.

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