GENEVA PESCHKA - Series Creator / Director / Executive Producer : For the past 13 years Geneva has worked in the feature animation, commercial and documentary production world. She is most passionate about the power of human connection, sharing authentic stories and creating platforms to empower others. The collaborative documentary UNSPOKEN (Now available on Kanopy) marks her debut as creator, co-director and producer. She recently released the 12 part short collaborative documentary series entitled "WOMXN" that she created, directed and produced. Geneva is currently developing a feature documentary and directing commercials and branded content.

SAMANTHA PANGER - Cinematographer / Director / Editor / Executive Producer : Samantha is a New York City and Austin based filmmaker and director of photography. Her work has traveled in the US and abroad having been selected for screening in numerous festivals, completed two story-telling activism tours, and chosen for a vimeo staff pick.

Having been a camera technician for nearly a decade, Samantha has a range of experience in formats including short, feature, television and web content. And in styles including narrative, documentary, and commercial.  Samantha uses this experience in her work to play with light, expand her skill set, and create within the budget and creative ideas of directors and collaborators she works with.

AMANDA MADDEN - Editor / Executive Producer : Amanda (they/them) is a director, editor, filmmaker, artist, educator, and emotional explorer. For the past 10 years, they have worked in media as an editor of commercial, web, documentary, and narrative content for clients including Refinery 29, Conde Nast, Nickelodeon, Food Network, NBC Universal, and Huff Post. They hold an MFA in socially engaged non-fiction media from Hunter College where they are also an Adjunct Instructor in the Film & Media Department. They have exhibited work in the SPLICE, Brooklyn Women’s, Asian American International (winner in episodic/digital category), CUNY, Nachtschatten, Awareness, Les Femmes Underground International, Utah Arts, Newark International, and Imagine This Women’s International Film Festivals, NOFLASH VIDEO SHOW, Nasty Women Unite Fest, Hyperreal Film Club’s HYPERDRIVE series, Landscape x Olympia video residency at Elsewhere, on FemmePowerTV, and at the Museum of Sex, Performance Space, New Women Space, and Anthology Film Archives. They focus on stories about identity and body, relationship and connection, and creative processes that value care, collaboration, and experimentation. Current projects include a multi-channel performance video about an entanglement with a wedding dress and the Great Salt Lake and an experimental documentary in which they attempt to channel and communicate with the ghost of the radical avant-garde artist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven about sex, art, madness and living and creating as a womxn artist. Connect with Amanda at amandacmadden.com.

KELLY TEACHER - Director / Editor / Executive Producer : Kelly’s career began in the music world, working behind the camera and in the edit room on two feature documentaries: “Austin to Boston” and “No Cameras Allowed.” She’s directed music videos for Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, The Staves and many more. Her work consisted of breaking down the walls between the musicians and their audience, pulling back the curtain on tour life, and bringing a sense of intimacy to their fans. Her first feature-length directorial project was a documentary about Ron Pope that explores the struggle and success of a completely independent musician who rose to fame with a Myspace hit.

Kelly then joined Teen Vogue in February 2016 to launch their video production division. Two years later, they were a team of 4 who had created over 150 digital videos featuring the likes of Hillary Clinton, Chance the Rapper, Malala and Ashley Judd. The videos garnered hundreds of millions online views and TeenVogue.com won Adweek’s 2017 Website of the Year. The most important series Kelly produced and frequently directed was the “Ask A:” series, which gave voice to Syrian refugees, Native American youth, young Muslim professionals, local witches, and undocumented femmes. 

As of January 2018, she returned to freelance filmmaking with a renewed passion for telling the stories of the underrepresented in the hope of making the world a better, more compassionate place. Her interests include youth movements, the environment, food and the future of agriculture, and gender equality.

LAURA DOMENECH - Associate Producer : Laura Domenech is a creative strategist in Digital Marketing for Media Storm in New York City. She has developed and executed dozens of integrated and digital media experiences for various entertainment brands, including Viacom and NBA, and helped launch FOX Sports 1 and El Rey Network. Currently, she supervises all digital media marketing for the agency’s top travel client, Celebrity Cruises.

Laura has over 10 years of experience in media as a radio personality who developed and hosted Tonic Fusion, a progressive radio show on 90.3 FM as well as a live event host & MC, and provided several on-camera celebrity interviews for Centric TV.

Laura holds a B.S. in Communication Studies from NYU. She is native New Yorker currently living in Brooklyn with her life partner and their 5-year old son Asene.

KRISTIE FERRISO - Editor : Kristie Ferriso is a Brooklyn-based, Texas-bred video editor with over ten years of experience in TV & film. After graduating from the University of North Texas, she edited two seasons of the iconic Austin, Texas roller derby television show, Texas Lonestar Roller Derby.  After moving to New York in 2016, she worked on the HBO nightly news show, VICE News Tonight, which received over 20 Emmy nominations during her time there. Kristie is now a freelance video editor working in television, most recently on Saturday Night Live.  

PAOLA COSSERMELLI MESSICA - Sound Recordist : Paola Cossermelli Messina is a freelance sound designer and audio engineer, currently pursuing a PhD in Ethnomusicology at Columbia University. She is credited as a recordist and mixer on several short films, including Our Everlasting Universe of Things (2016), Eudaemonia (2018), Disforia (2018), among others. She is also a post-production sound designer and music supervisor and her credits in those capacities include Sometimes, Forever (2017) and the feature film Ask for Jane (2018). For more information on her work, check out her IMDB page and website.

VERA QUISPE - Sound Recordist : My name is Veralucia Quispe, born in Peru, graduated from The City College of New York, with a BFA in Film and Video Production, and currently residing in the Bronx. My fascination for sound and music began at a young age, as well as a love for documentary. Have been blessed to work with amazing human beings and wild creatives. 

AMANDA FUENTES - Sound Engineer / Executive Producer : Amanda Fuentes is an assistant sound engineer at MACHINE NY. Originally from Puerto Rico, she received her degree in sound design at SCAD before making Brooklyn her new home. In addition to commercial work and short films, she pursues podcasting and documentary projects that bring new voices to the forefront.

DAHKIL HAUSIF - Post Clean Up : Dahkil began his craft as an undergrad at Syracuse University, studying in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications Television, Radio and Film program.

Upon graduating, he simultaneously took a job as an assistant editor at Mad River Post while also forming Sunshowah Films with fellow SU alum Daoud Abeid.  Being an assistant editor allowed Dahkil to study various commercial and feature film directors work while he and Daoud began making films.

Working intimately with advertising copywriters gave him and detailed knowledge as to what they were looking for in a voice over talent.  Dahkil booked his first voice over job in 1999 on a Coca-Cola commercial.  From 2000 – 2001 he voiced an entire radio, television and cinema campaign for Sprite.  This led to more work for clients such as the NFL, Circuit City, Twizzlers, Marshall’s, the American Beverage Association, VitaminWater, Sister Schubert’s and also doing ESPN Films critically acclaimed 30 for 30 spots for the past eight years.

As an editor, Dahkil worked at the prestigious bi-coastal shop Spotwelders before moving on to…  He was a First Boards Award finalist in 2010 for being a rising young editor in the industry.  He has cut spots for clients including Pepsi, ESPN, Verizon, Jeep, Cooper Tires, Puma, BMW, and Converse with agencies such as BBDO, Publicis, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, Droga 5, Mother New York, and Wieden & Kennedy.  He’s edited for many directors, including Mark Pellington, Daniel Benmayor, Sam Bayer and Rupert Sanders.

Sunshowah Films is a co-writing, co-directing partnership.  Together Dahkil and Daoud have created 3 award winning short films, the last of which, “Shades of Brooklyn Vol. 1” aired on HBO. Their next project is a narrative feature film, which will be shot in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica in 2016 is in pre-production and will star Delroy Lindo and Lynn Whitfield.

Dahkil has a strong history with community activism as well as in recent years Dahkil has also serves on two different boards of trustees: The Corlears School (a private independent school focusing on early education) and The Blue Mountain Art Institute (providing funding for the Lil’ Raggamuffin Summer Camp in Kingston, Jamaica).

ALEXIS HAUT - WOMXN Podcast Executive Producer : Alexis is an educator and podcast producer based in Brooklyn. She spent seven years teaching, leading and coaching basketball in middle schools in Brooklyn and Newark before independently producing her podcast series New York, I Love You But You’ve Changed and Appropriate in 2018. She now consults on a variety podcasts, writes about music and provides curriculum and professional development support for schools throughout the city. She works on projects that prioritize equity and culture. You can find all of Alexis' audio projects and her writing at HautTakes.com.