DIRECTOR / WRITER
Annika Hylmö, Ph.D.
is an award-winning filmmaker and documentarian whose films have screened at CameraImage, Tribeca Film Festival, as well as smaller specialty festivals. She co-produced IMAGE MAKERS: THE STORY OF AMERICA’S PIONEER CINEMATOGRAPHERS for TCM and her narrative short film DR. PENELOPE is winning awards and hearts around the world. Annika is also a producer of Women in Media's renowned CAMERAderie Initiative, creating powerful films empowering female filmmakers.
PRODUCER
Dawn Green, Ph.D.
is a New York based filmmaker and documentarian. Her work as a producer in television has included shows for the SyFy Channel and the Oxygen Network. Previously, she served as a Lecturer of Italian Literature and Film for over a decade at Stanford University and U.C. Santa Cruz. She was a Fellow at the American Film Institute where she received an MFA in Producing. Her AFI thesis film, LE JEU DES SOLDATS (THE SOLDIER'S GAME), won first place in the 2011 BAFTA/LA Student Film Festival and was a national finalist for the 38th Annual Student Academy Awards competition.
Dawn Green is a member of the Producers Guild of America.
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Petr Cikhart
received his MFA in Cinematography from the American Film Institute. His thesis film FIRST IN FLIGHT was nominated for the ASC Harris Savides Heritage Award. He has worked in over 120 countries, lensing films such as FARMINGVILLE (Special Jury Prize, 2004 Sundance Film Festival) and BLINDSIGHT (Audience Awards, 2006 AFI Film Festival & 2007 Berlin Film Festival). Recently Petr served as a cinematographer on National Geographic’s series Restaurants At The End Of The World and Paramount’s series De La Calle. In 2007 Petr won his first Prime Time Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography. He has been nominated a total of ten times.
EDITOR
Elika Rezaee
is an award-winning LA-based film editor with experience in both narrative and documentary filmmaking. Originally from Iran, she graduated from the American Film Institute's editing program in 2015. Elika has edited over ten feature films that premiered at top-tier film festivals such as Sundance, Tribeca and SXSW, and aired on PBS. Elika edited the feature film SHAYDA, which won the Audience Award at Sundance 2023. She also edited the feature documentary LA SANDINISTA which received the Jury Prize at SXSW and the São Paulo International Film Festival, as well as the Justice Matters Award and an ITVS grant.
