Sara Dosa
(Producer, Co-Director)
Sara Dosa Sara is a filmmaker from the San Francisco Bay Area. She has worked with a number of San Francisco-based film companies—such as internationally acclaimed Actual Films, Bright Child Films/Swell Cinema, On the Fly Films, and SEB Media—in a variety of roles, from producing, editing and researching to fundraising. Along with Dreaming in American, she is directing and producing Roots and Webs, a documentary about war veterans in the Oregon woods who pick mushrooms for a living; and For Closure, an experimental landscape doc that explores the visual fall-out of the financial crisis. She also works for the San Francisco Film Society as the Grants and Residencies Coordinator. Sara graduated from Wesleyan University with high honors in Anthropology in 2005, and recently completed a joint Masters in Anthropology and International Development Studies from the London School of Economics.


Milla Dias Araújo
(Producer)
Milla Dias Araújo Milla is a former English teacher from the city of Aimorés, Minas Gerais, Brazil. She received a degree in Portuguese and English Literature at Faculdades Integradas Presistente Castelo Branco in Colatina, Espírito Santo, where she also taught courses such as Language Acquisition. For three years, she was contracted by the conservation organization Instituto Terra as a translator and guide for groups of American students. As an English teacher for the state, Milla established a vast social network in the region—made up of fellow teachers, parents, students, friends, relatives and neighbors—through which she keeps track, among other things, of the people going to the United States, those who help them, and the families they leave behind.


Eliot Gray Fisher
(Director, Editor, Original Music)
Eliot Gray Fisher Eliot is a filmmaker and composer from Santa Fe, New Mexico. His scores for short films, and his documentary short Last of the Wangunks, earned him the Leavell Memorial Prize in Film at Wesleyan University. Power on the River, a documentary about the impacts of a hydroelectric dam in rural Brazil, which he produced, directed, and edited with Anna Kongs, was an official selection of the 29th Big Muddy Film Festival. He has produced video of Yaqui Indians in Sonora, Mexico for Dr. David Delgado Shorter’s ethnographic website, and taught and served as coordinator of the Documentary Studies Certificate Program at the College of Santa Fe. He currently works for the Youth Media Project, an educational media program for teens.


Zoë Bird
(Writer)
Zoë Bird Zoë is an award-winning documentarian and poet whose work has appeared in art installations, anthologies and many publications, including Runes; The Harwood Anthology; Curbside Review; Central Avenue Poetry Magazine; and Manzanita Quarterly. She has been a teacher of creative writing in the College of Santa Fe’s Documentary Studies Program, a staff member of The Santa Fe Film Festival and Center for Contemporary Arts, and art director of the art and litmag Not Drowning, Waving. Zoë is currently the New Mexico Poet-in-Residence with the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project, and a co-organizer of Santa Fe’s Poets for Peace and International Poetry Festival. She has published three chapbooks: The Buried Flower (2002), Shedding Lions (2007), and Victrola (2009); and is currently at work on two books: Poultice for a Wooden Leg, a collection of poetry, and Cinzas e Sementes: Ashes and Seeds, an illustrated documentary prose poem about death and regeneration in Brazil.


Kevin Ang
(Animation Team)
Kevin Ang Kevin is an illustrator, animator, writer, and photographer who has worked in film, television, and video games. He produced visual effects for Actual Films’ documentary The Rape of Europa, which chronicles the Nazi pillage of great works of art and monuments throughout Europe during WWII. He also created motion graphics for the CW television network and served as an animator on Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, a rotoscoped feature based on Philip K. Dick’s novel. His illustration work has been used in products for Leapfrog Toys.


Maggie Alter
(Animation Team)
Maggie Alter Maggie recently worked as a community artist-in-residence in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in an AmeriCorps program at the North Fourth Art Center. Her digital arts classes include everything from flipbook animations to documentary photography for elementary and middle school students throughout the city. She earned her BFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has also studied at Duke University and VŠUP in Prague, Czech Republic, in the animation studio of Jirí Barta.


Leland Chapin
(Animation Team)
Leland Chapin Leland is a multi-cultural artist and teacher who has collaborated in learning with a wide range of people around art and social justice issues. He has lived & worked in Panama, Washington, DC, New Mexico's Navajo Nation, Philadelphia, and El Salvador. Leland grew up bilingual. He thanks his family and friends for inspiring him to keep growing and to keep learning about his own identity. Leland passionately believes that making art has the power to uplift individuals and unite communities.


Dave Davenport
(Animation Team)
Dave Davenport Dave is from Santa Fe, New Mexico. He graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in Film Production. Presently he works in Early Story Development for the animation studio LAIKA, based in Portland, Oregon. On the side, he is developing various screenplays, thinking about the nature of space-time, and is building a flux capacitor in his basement.



Katherine Lee
(Animation Team)
Katherine Lee Katherine is a painter. In 2006, she explored the landscape of Minas Gerais, Brazil, compiling a photo database of her surroundings, natural and architectural elements from which to paint and "remix" reality. The Brazilian "Exterior" paintings (dark, moody, and enigmatic) are spaces where time floats like a memory and meaning is just as ambiguous. Katherine’s process of choice includes oil and spray paint on paper. Her work has been selected for inclusion in several juried exhibitions and has earned numerous awards. She received her BFA in painting from the College of Santa Fe and has been a featured artist in Smithsonian Magazine, The Santa Fe Reporter and New Mexico’s THE Magazine.


Pete Reilly
(Web Guru)
Pete Reilly Pete is a web developer who has spent most of his life in Santa Fe, New Mexico. After trying engineering, art history, art, and astronomy, he ended up graduating from Northwestern University with a dual degree in Latin American History and Eastern European Religions. He has since put none of those skills to use in his professional career building and maintaining websites. In his spare time, Pete draws, writes, shoots arrows, reads most everything he gets his hands on, and rides his mountain bike over hill and dale. His newest webcomic, Great Declivity, launched recently and is charging ahead full steam.