Meet the Team

SENIOR EDITOR

Kevin is an Emmy-award-winning editor whose cut over a dozen feature-length documentaries. His credits include Dave Chappelle Live in Real Life, which had its premiere as the closing night film of the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. He also edited the Emmy-winning documentary A Lion in the House, which premiered at Sundance before airing nationally on PBS. His credits also include Burn, the audience award winner at the Tribeca Film Festival and New York Times Critic's Pick.

ASSISTANT EDITOR

Elizabeth started out with an interest in traditional animation, attending the CSSSA program at CalArts when she was in middle school, as their youngest attendee to that point. She then explored 3D digital animation before settling on film editing. She has a BFA in Motion Pictures & Television from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Since 2011 she has worked as a freelance filmmaker on various short-form projects and web series, and one feature documentary.

PRODUCER

Sara Lafleur-Vetter is a documentary filmmaker and a photographer with a passion for telling stories of the underdog and the underbelly of society. She believes in the power of film and photography to better the world. Lafleur is inspired by the #decolonizedocs movement and believes media makers have a duty to flip the script of structural inequality, racism, sexism, and heteronormativity.

Lafleur holds a Master’s in Journalism specializing in Documentary Film from the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where she was fortunate to study under the doc giants Jon Else and Orlando Bagwell. At present, Lafleur is working on a feature-length film about several Indigenous activists who were transformed by their experience at Standing Rock. The film has drawn support from IDA, IFP, and Berkeley Film Foundation. Lafleur was also a 2018 BAVC MediaMaker Fellow.

CONSULTING PRODUCER

Krystal Tingle is a Jamaican-American filmmaker living between Los Angeles and Miami. Tingle’s films reflect the rich complexities of Black women and explore the miracles that lie within the mundanity of life. Tingle’s short documentary, Over The Wall, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. It won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Short at BlackStar Film Festival.She is the Series Field Producer for the Emmy-nominated, The 1619 Project (HULU), the Director/Producer for Soledad O’Brian’s Disrupt & Dismantle on BET, and the Supervising Producer for The Queen Collective for Flavor Unit Entertainment and Tribeca Studios. Tingle is developing her feature documentary Oh Happy Day!, which has received early support from California Humanities, Women in Film and Video, and Docs in Progress. Her production company, Doctor Bird Studios, specializes in documentary films and non-fiction content with a passion for stories that center on the Caribbean diaspora. Her non-profit, Chapel Cinema, works to provide ancillary care and support for independent Black women filmmakers on-set, in the field, and at home.

OUTREACH PRODUCER

Maya is a Producer/Videographer based in Oakland, California, with a diverse background in filmmaking, digital communications, journalism and storytelling. Maya has worked on a number of award-winning feature documentaries, including No Straight Lines (2021) as Outreach Coordinator, Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (2018) as Associate Producer, Regarding Susan Sontag (2014), and Hidden Heart Film (2008) as Crowdfund Coordinator.

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER | SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER

Alyana is Betty Reid’s granddaughter. She graduated from UC Irvine where she studied Film. She currently works as a Quality Control Technician at Pixelogic Media where she oversees file delivery for Film & TV content. Prior to that she worked as a COVID-safety officer on film sets in Southern California.

POST-PRODUCTION COORDINATOR

Jamie LeJeune is an award winning cinematographer and colorist based in San Francisco, CA. He has overseen post-production or color-graded dozens of feature documentaries, television programs and commercials. He is known for The Book Makers (2020), A Year in Port (2016) and A Year in Burgundy (2013).

CURRICULUM AND EDUCATION COORDINATOR

Shane Carter is program coordinator for ORIAS at UC Berkeley. ORIAS (Office of Resources for International and Area Studies) offers programs for k-14 educators focused on international topics and global issues. Through her work at ORIAS, Shane also collaborates with other curriculum development initiatives at UC Berkeley, including the UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project and other members of the UC Berkeley Professional Development Providers. Prior to her work at UC Berkeley, Shane was a high school history teacher.

ACADEMIC ADVISOR

James Edward Mills is a National Geographic Explorer and a contributor to National Geographic Magazine, a Fellow of the Mountain & Wilderness Writing Program of the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada and a recipient of the Paul K. Petzoldt Award For Environmental Education.

As a freelance journalist and an independent media producer in a career that spans more than 20 years he specializes in sharing stories about outdoor recreation, environmental conservation, acts of charitable giving and practices of sustainable living.

He has worked in the outdoor industry since 1989 as a guide, outfitter, independent sales representative, writer, and photographer.

He is the author of the new book “The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors” and the co-writer/co-producer of the documentary film “An American Ascent”