Zach Toombs is an Emmy-winning producer and the executive director of Evident, a nonprofit news organization producing documentary journalism for the public good. He supervised documentary programming at Scripps and […]

Francesca Scalisi is an Italian director, editor and producer. Mark Olexa is a Swiss director and producer. They are based in Fribourg, Switzerland, where they run the film production company […]

Scott K. Foley is an independent filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York whose award-winning films and videos have screened at festivals across the globe. Scott’s film, Jessica, a slice-of-life drama […]

Over the last twenty-five years of work in public television, Stephen Ives has established himself as one of the nation’s leading independent documentary directors. His landmark series The West was […]

National Geographic photographer, Stanford media designer, and founder and chief creative of Amplifier.org, Aaron Huey has photographed over 30 stories for National Geographic. As the first global ambassador for Stanford’s […]

Aner is a filmmaker and screenwriter passionate about nature and human race. He has worked in many documentary films and TV shows as a freelance filmmaker and with his production […]

Documentary filmmaker and producer. He has directed documentary films for the NGO Education Without Borders, as well as for his own company “Producciones MundoDoc”. From 2014 to 2015 he works […]

Kelsey Bisson served as one of the Chief Scientists aboard R/V Sally Ride in December 2017 during the time the Aquatic Cathartic was filmed. She coordinated efforts to adapt the […]

Dustin Hayes is a musician and artist based in Ventura, CA. Assigned the role of musician aboard the R/V Sally Ride, Dustin stars as the protagonist and narrator of the […]

A UCSB alumni and Santa Barbara native, he is a self-proclaimed ‘graphic designer etc.’ fully embraces the ambiguity what some call ‘doing the computer thing’. Gad’s graphic work spans everything […]