Yasmin Mawaz-Khan

producer/director

A producer of national and industrial commercials, short documentaries, experimental films, music and promotional videos. She has shot and edited special news packages for the Bay Area News Group, Link TV and Pacific News Service. Her clients include Apple Computers, Hewlett-Packard, Genentech, Ford, Levi's and Gap. She has also created and installed interactive video art and sculptures in galleries and festivals across the world, whether solo or in collaboration with the Flaming Lotus Girls. She is inspired by the process of creation, collaborating with people and seeing a project from concept to completion. Her influences include her diverse background, the community she lives in and her passion for exploring new concepts and methods of representation and interactivity.

Thor Young

executive producer

Thor Young is a brand strategy & fundraising consultant specializing in developing and implementing impact-driven communications, fundraising, and programming strategies. Offering full-service consulting from the boardroom to the front desk, so that you can define the big picture and actually make it happen. Thor has 15 years of fundraising experience and non-profit management experience including serving as the ED of The Crucible in Oakland, and building the first fundraising department at Burning Man when it became a non-profit organization in 2014.

Laura Wagner

consulting producer

Laura Wagner is an award-winning producer who recently produced the feature documentary ARTIFISHAL, which premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, and ART 21 “San Francisco Bay Area,” which premiered on PBS. Her narrative films, including IT FELT LIKE LOVE, TRACKTOWN, EASY LIVING, and MY FIRST KISS AND THE PEOPLE INVOLVED, have premiered at top-tier film festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW and many more, and have enjoyed success worldwide in theatrical markets, on television and on streaming platforms. She is the recipient of the Sundance Institute’s Creative Producing Fellowship and Lab, SFFILM’s Kenneth Rainin Foundation Fellowship and Grant, and the IFP/Cannes Marché du Film Producer’s Network Fellowship. She is also a Film Independent fellow and grant recipient and an alumna of the Trans Atlantic Partners program, the Rotterdam Lab, and Berlinale Talents. 

makaiah mohler

associate producer

Makaiah is a storyteller whose work in politics, documentaries, and digital spaces continually spurs audiences to act. She hustled in politics for 5 years, managing campaigns and organizing a groundbreaking number of voters in some of the most conservative, rural corners of America. As a digital director on races for President, Senate, and Congress she developed a specialty in video storytelling that she now applies to her work in environmental and social justice intersectional documentaries. She worked on the Shorty and CLIO award-winning documentary PURPLE MOUNTAINS and is currently collaborating on 4 documentaries with an incredible group of Bay Area filmmakers. 

Cliff Traiman

director of photography

Cliff Traiman works as a Director of Photography on Commercial, Industrial and Narrative productions. He has shot several feature length films including “The Village Barbershop”, “Broken Arrows”, “Apartment 202”, and “Kung Phooey”, as well as the nationally syndicated television show, “Ultimate Living.” His Commercial & Corporate clientele includes Comcast, 24-Hour Fitness, Honda, Hewlett Packard, Apple Computers, eBay, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Frito Lay, Oracle, Cisco, Juniper Networks,Genentech, San Francisco Giants, San Jose Earthquakes, and Franklin Templeton. Cliff has written & directed many of his own commercial spots and short films, and is credited as the primary screenwriter of the feature film, “Harrison Montgomery” (2007), starring Oscar Winner, Martin Landeau. Cliff is a partner in the world famous Little Giant Lighting & Grip Company.

Dana laman

lead editor

Dana Laman has been working as an editor for the past decade. Credits include award-winning commercial projects, documentary features and experimental short films. Her work has been screened at film festivals and galleries across the country. 

Sarah smalik

editor

Sarah Smalik is an editor who is also a multidisciplinary artist working at the crossroads of video, installation, sculpture and performance. She earned an MFA in New Genres from UCLA in 2017, and often uses narrative as a springboard for whatever forms the work wants to take. Her experimental approach to art and art communities resonates deeply with the storytelling of Bill and Ace Junkyard, and she is thrilled to help chronicle this unique moment in time and space with this film.

Steve pi

assistant editor

Steve Piasecki is a San Francisco based artist working in video projection installations, photography, and physical computing. His work has been seen in San Francisco venues such as Dada Bar, The Lone Star, and Gray Area. He has live-mixed visuals as a VJ for various DJs and musicians in the yurt at Gays Hate Techno. His work was shown at Light.Wav in Sacramento in the before times. His most recent video project, 09-09-2020: The Day of the Red Sky, is a surround video / audio piece about the Pacific Northwest forest fires and was developed for Recombinant Media Lab's Cine Chamber, a 10 video screen, 8 audio channel immersive system. He is a member of the Gray Area Artist Incubator.

Cocoa rigal

animation and motion graphics artist

Cocoa Rigal aka Jenny Muscatelli is an artist, auteur, animator and costume designer for film, theater and avant-garde visual performance art. She went to school for fine arts at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, and her most recent animation work includes episodes for the animated series, Extreme. She has also worked as a creative director and curator for several live visual performance art shows, including SummerTramp and Thunder Ground LGBTQ+ art show. 

ALITA EDGAR

development consultant

Alita Edgar is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in strategic communications, design & collaborative events, seen most recently at the Sharjah Biennial 2019. She is a co-founder of nonsense nyc, the Music Box Village and Shadow Parks Department.