Director | Editor

Benedict Kasulis

Benedict has produced and edited several documentary features and series including Murder Mountain, QB1, Just Like Us, 14 Minutes from Earth, On Point, Tradition is a Temple, and Warriors of Liberty City.

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He recently directed and edited the documentary Touch the Boulder, which won Best Film at the Political Feedback Film Festival, and was a Finalist for Best Documentary at the Montreal Independent Film Festival, where it won Best Editing. 

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His commercial credits include national and international spots for Amazon, Walmart, Under Armour, Red Bull, Maverick and Bad Boy Records. 

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He measures a project's importance by whether or not he'd be excited to show it to his five-year-old daughter when she's old enough to see it. He hopes to make work good enough to overcome the inevitable eye rolling. 

Producer | Director of Photography

Filipe Bessa

Filipe Bessa is a cinematographer, camera operator and documentary filmmaker with extensive experience on a wide variety of projects, from documentary and narrative features to commercial spots, music videos and television docu-series.

He has served as cinematographer on shows for Netflix, HBO, Showtime, CBS, Fox, ESPN, NBC, NatGeo, the CW and the Travel Channel, among others, and has shot for clients such as Microsoft, Facebook, Google, the UFC, the NBA, the NHL and Michelob Ultra.

Born in Brazil and raised between his homeland and the US, Filipe speaks fluent Portuguese, English and Spanish. He graduated magna cum laude with honors from The Filmschool at Florida State University.

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Producer | Director of Photography

Ryan Dismukes

Ryan has worked as a producer, director, and cinematographer all over the world, notably for the TLC smash series 90 DAY FIANCE, and its various spinoffs. He has filmed documentaries about third-world midwives, exotic pets, and sanitation workers.

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He is an award winning Director of Photography for his work on narrative short films, and his still photography has been featured  around the world.

Everybody likes him, which is sort of annoying when comparing yourself to him, but very useful when he is filming documentaries.

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He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter. 

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Writer | Producer

Nick Schwartz

Nick Schwartz is a screenwriter, field producer and assistant director at home in creative development, on set or conducting interviews. He’s done re-writes for a major studio release, produced content for small non-profits and wrangled hundreds of extras for Netflix, Disney and HBO. Schwartz has worked event security, driven camera cars and was briefly considered for the role of lead villain in an unaired children's TV pilot.

Born and raised outside of Philadelphia, PA, with a decade in NYC, Schwartz now lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, where he devotes his free time to fully embracing a west-coast lifestyle of hiking, veganism and cult research.

Artist | Editor

Sandra Rocha

Sandra has been been painting professionally for the past 20 years.  She graduated with a BFA from Rhode Island College in 2000, and then went on to study painting at the Art Students League of New York.  She also studied Textile Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology.  She lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY for 14 years before moving across country to Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. The differing landscape of the west excited and inspired to explore some new ideas for her work.

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She recently moved to the midwest where she can paint the seasons changing.

For the past five years, Sandra has been editing and doing graphic design work in addition to her painting.  

Composer

Carson Aune

Carson’s a self-taught composer always experimenting with new techniques in music and sound. His scores have defined such works as QB1, ON POINT, LOST ANGELES, SYMPATHY SAID THE SHARK, HBO’s STATE OF PLAY, the hit documentary WAR DOG: A SOLDIER’S BEST FRIEND, and History’s THE WARFIGHTERS.

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He has scored over 100 episodes of television, and his work has been a crucial part of films premiering at Cannes, Sundance, SXSW, Venice, and Poland film festivals. 

He was also an actor when he was younger and was even in an episode of TRUE BLOOD, so working with any other composer simply wouldn’t make sense.