Taylor Blackburn

Taylor is a Los Angeles based writer, producer, and director. Her work focuses on identity, relationships, sex, and intimacy, in particular from the female perspective. She graduated from Bates College in 2015 with a BA in Film & Television Rhetoric. This spring she will receive her MFA in Writing & Producing for Television from Loyola Marymount University. 

 

 

 

Constance Brimelow 

Constance Brimelow is a documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. Since graduating Bates
College in 2016, she has worked as an Associate Producer for THIS IS HOME (2018) – a feature length documentary that chronicles the first 8 months of four Syrian refugee families resettling in Baltimore, MD. It premiered at The Sundance Film Festival’18 and won The Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary. The film will be broadcast later this year on EPIX.

 

 

Trey Callaway

A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Trey Callaway graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts with the Abraham Polonsky Award for Excellence in Screenwriting.

Early success came when he wrote I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, the hit horror sequel, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Brandy, and Jack Black, in his big screen debut. Not limiting himself to one genre, Trey also wrote an original western at Columbia Pictures called THE LAST WORD for director John Woo, as well as MISTY, a remake of the classic suspense film PLAY MISTY FOR ME, for Will Smith’s Overbrook Pictures at Universal. And after writing the animated comedy NICHOLAS CRICKET for Warner Brothers, Trey also developed an original CG feature for DreamWorks. His film adaptations include working closely with director Phillip Noyce and actor Harrison Ford on the big screen adaptation of Tom Clancy’s THE SUM OF ALL FEARS. He contributed to THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES for Paramount Pictures, and most recently penned SMOKE ON THE WATER, an action film for Thunder Road.

Trey’s small screen career has been no less active. He was the creator and executive producer of a breakthrough one-hour science fiction series entitled MERCY POINT for UPN. In partnership with director Tim Burton and Columbia Television, Trey wrote and executive produced LOST IN OZ, a series pilot based on the works of L.Frank Baum. For six years, Trey wrote on the CBS hit television series CSI:NY, starring Gary Sinise. And while producing 130 episodes of the iconic franchise, he also wrote and produced three original pilots for the same network, as well as four additional pilots for A&E, TNT, The CW, and SHOWTIME. Trey created “The Ghost Facers,” a popular and recurring ensemble of characters featured on the long-running genre series SUPERNATURAL, and was a Co-Executive Producer of REVOLUTION, the J.J. Abrams produced hit series on NBC. Trey was the Executive Producer and Showrunner of an acclaimed CW series called THE MESSENGERS, and also joined forces with Bill Lawrence (SCRUBS) and Steve Franks (PSYCH) to produce RUSH HOUR, a series based on the hit action-comedy movie franchise for CBS. Trey was the EP and Showrunner of APB, a high tech, high octane police procedural on the FOX Network. And currently, he is the EP and Showrunner of OUTRIDER, a new western event series for Amazon starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

But just to prove you can indeed go home again… for over a decade, Trey has also been a Professor in residence at his alma mater, the prestigious USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he first launched his successful career.

Trey Callaway lives in Los Angeles, California, where he is represented by CAA, Rain Management, and Jackoway, Tyerman, Wertheimer, Mandelbaum & Morris.

 

 

 

Amy Geller

Amy Geller is an award-winning filmmaker who has worked on numerous feature-length fiction and non-fiction films, including the PBS/BBC docudrama Murder at Harvard and the historical documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism, broadcast internationally in Spain, France, Israel, and Japan and nationally on the Documentary Channel and WGBH-Boston. She also produced the Sundance Institute-supported narrative feature Stay Until Tomorrow, The War That Made America, a four-hour PBS mini-series, and Love and Other Anxieties, a personal documentary directed by funder-turned-filmmaker Lyda Kuth. The Guys Next Door (2016), which has screened at over 35 film festivals, theaters and in community screenings across the country, is her feature-length directorial debut along with co-director Allie Humenuk. Her latest project, and the second with writer/director Gerald Peary, is called The Rabbi Goes West and is about a Hasidic rabbi who moved from Brooklyn, New York to Bozeman, Montana to bring his Orthodox Judaism to the American west. She is currently teaching in Boston University’s graduate program for Cinema & Media Production

 

 

Brandon Kelley

Brandon Kelley is a writer/director whose focus lies in pulling performances from actors. From a young age, Brandon has felt a strong passion for the performing arts; studying different acting techniques while performing for a variety of companies. 

In college, Brandon stepped behind the camera and fell in love with directing.

Recently, Brandon was able to start their own company, bRandom Media which, in addition to production services, provides specialty camera services in VR/360°, Underwater and Hi-Speed cinematography. Under the bRandom moniker, Brandon has directed projects for Jack Daniels, Perrier, TD Bank, RBC/ VISA, Billboard, Dash Aerosports and others.

Brandon is an ardent supporter of universal human rights and believes that these rights are innate, and not subject to discrimination. This film is Brandon’s personal message to anyone with children, not only those parents of transgender children, to learn from and accept their kids.

 

 

Alex Morrow

Born and raised in Maine, Alex found her way to filmmaking by way of public radio. When she was 16 she left home for Uganda, and since then she has been working around the world producing and directing documentary films for organizations from Guatemala to Nepal.  She is a firm believer that film is one of the last mediums where you can mobilize people and change the way they think about the world. Alex has worked with organizations like PRX, the Camden International Film Festival, Atlantic Public Media, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 21st Century Afterschool Programming in Lewiston, ME, and the Maine Department of Justice. She is currently based in Portland, ME (though often travels for projects) with Timber & Frame, where she has produced and assistant edited projects for the United Nations, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, the Nature Conservancy, and Thinking Beyond Borders (among many others).

 

 

Michael Sargent

Trained as a social psychologist, and having served as a psychology professor for almost two decades, Michael Sargent has in recent years developed a new interest: storytelling.  He has participated in multiple live, first-person storytelling events and has even founded such an event, The Corner, in Lewiston/Auburn, Maine.  His growing interest in documentary filmmaking is an outgrowth of this general interest in storytelling, as well as his teaching and research on social interaction.  It is also an outgrowth of two hobbies of his from a previous (but recent) life: blogging and college radio DJing.  If there is one thing Sargent likes more than music, it’s hobbies that give him an excuse to talk to interesting people.

 

 

Jessica M. Thompson

Jessica M. Thompson is an Emmy-nominated Australian writer, director, producer and editor who currently resides in Los Angeles. Thompson made her feature writing and directorial debut with “The Light of the Moon,” which had its world premiere at the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival in March 2017, where it won the coveted Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature Film. “The Light of the Moon,” starring Stephanie Beatriz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Short Term 12), Michael Stahl-David (Narcos, Cloverfield) and Conrad Ricamora (How to Get Away With Murder), had a limited theatrical release in November-December 2017 and enjoyed sold-out screens in both New York and Los Angeles and heralds a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score. 

Andrew Barker from Variety called the film “harrowingly effective” and “sensitive without ever being sanctimonious, brutally frank without ever lapsing into exploitation”; Leslie Felperin from The Hollywood Reporter stated that “Thompson clearly has a knack with actors, coaxing sharp, believable performances from all involved,” and Joey Magidson from Hollywood News said it is “the timeliest movie of the year.”

Thompson then went on to apprentice direct on the second season of Hulu’s hit series, “The Handmaid’s Tale.” She observed and collaborated with the directors, producers, and showrunner, Bruce Miller, throughout the prep, production, and post-production of two episodes of the show, filmed on location in Toronto, Canada.

Thompson studied writing and acting at three major drama academies while growing up in Australia before studying film at the University of Technology, Sydney. In 2010, Thompson founded Stedfast Productions, a collective of visual storytellers. She edited Cheryl Furjanic’s award-winning documentary, “Back on Board: Greg Louganis,” which premiered on HBO in August 2015. Thompson has also worked as an editor and productions manager with Academy Award-nominated filmmakers, Liz Garbus, Edet Belzberg, and Sandy McLeod, and has written and directed several award-winning, festival-favorite short films, including “Hike,” “Percepio,” and “Across the Pond.”

 

 

Anike Tourse

Boston Native Anike Tourse has written for daytime serial One Life to Live, for sitcom series Girlfriends and is the playwright of stage play No Milk Today which premiered at the 2015 Wisconsin Fermentation Fest. She has produced multilingual videos and public service announcements for the Immigrant Rights Movement. Anike has penned and performed several solo shows, touring her productions across the country as well as to the Edinburgh (Scotland) Fringe Festival; the largest international theater festival in the world, on a national Nigerian tour sponsored by the 7-UP Bottling Company and as the key note for the 2016 Bates College Student orientation. Anike’s current projects include an animated short film in development called Frances the Fish and her directorial debut of the live action short award winning film America: I Too. Anike earned her undergraduate degree from Bates College and her Masters of Fine Arts degree from The Ohio State University.

 

 

Laura Wexler

Laura Wexler is a Baltimore-based writer and producer who creates narrative projects based on little-known true stories. She is the co-writer and executive producer of DINNER PARTY, a virtual reality thriller that won a $100,000 Alternate Realities Grant and world premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
Her writing credits include PANDORA’S BOX, a one-hour drama pilot sold to Amazon Studios; the narrative nonfiction book, Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America (Scribner); and journalism published in The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, and elsewhere. Producing credits include The Stoop Storytelling Series, a popular Baltimore-based live show and podcast featuring “ordinary” people telling the extraordinary true tales of their lives.