Jessica Jones| Director
Jessica Jones is an Emmy® (CA-regional) nominated documentary filmmaker and editor. She served as an assistant editor for For Our Children, A Fragile Trust, A New Color, and as an additional editor for Voices Rising: The Music Behind Wakanda Forever. She has edited numerous short documentaries that have appeared in The New York Times, BBC, KQED, and other outlets. In 2021, she completed the short film On the Pulse of Life, which screened at the Smithsonian FUTURES exhibit and at numerous festivals nationwide. In 2023, she co-edited, Born for This, a documentary addressing Black maternal health and birth equity. She was the 2011 George Stoney Fellow at Working Films, a 2013 BAVC Mediamaker Fellow, a participant in the inaugural 2020 Re-Take Oakland fellowship program, and a 2023-24 Sundance Documentary Contributing Editor Fellow.
Paul Fong Bothwell | Director of Photography
Paul Fong Bothwell, is a videographer and photographer with multidisciplinary experience in the visual arts. His roots began while in high school as an assistant for a San Francisco fashion photographer, and continued to grad school becoming an adjunct professor at George Mason University. The primary focus of his work is on identity and community.
Benjamin Michel | Director of Photography
Benjamin Michel is an award-winning filmmaker of Haitian descent. He was born in Irvington, New Jersey and was exposed to a rich cultural heritage growing up. After a number of years in Florida, he pursued a career in motion pictures as a director, cinematographer, writer, and producer. His films often highlight the cultural and historical lives of people from different parts of the world. The structure of his films usually blends the classical tropes of storytelling with elements of surrealism. He's received inspiration from the work of auteurs such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Wong Kar-wai, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Raoul Peck. Benjamin's become known for creating unique, poetic and beautifully cinematic films.
Chelsi Bullard | Editor
Chelsi Bullard is a filmmaker and editor specializing in long-form documentaries. Her directorial work has been supported by Sundance Institute, Chicken & Egg Films, Film Independent, Hot Docs Forum and others. Editing credits include the three-part documentary series AMERICAN PROBLEMS, TRANS SOLUTIONS directed by Imara Jones and produced by Naz Habtezghi which was nominated for a GLAAD Award (World Channel and WNET, 2024). Chelsi edited the feature documentary THE RIGHT TO READ (Santa Barbara, 2023 and SXSW EDU, 2023) with director Jenny Mackenzie and Executive Produced by Reading Rainbow’s LeVar Burton. She also recently co-edited LOCKED OUT (dirs. Kate Davis and Luchina Fisher) which was named ‘Best Documentary Feature’ at American Black Film Festival, 2023 and screened opening night at Double Exposure Film Festival, 2023.
Cassandra Jabola | Consulting Producer
Cassandra Jabola is a Filipina-American documentary film and television producer. She has collaborated with HBO, Netflix, PBS, National Geographic, NBCUniversal, TLC, The Science Channel, The Travel Channel, A&E, and Investigation Discovery. She is a DOC NYC: 40 Under 40 honoree, and has produced feature documentaries that have screened at Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, CPH:DOX, IDFA, Hot Docs, and DOC NYC, among others. Recent projects currently streaming on Netflix include series You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment and feature Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir. She believes that audiovisual storytelling is a powerful tool for igniting change as it amplifies the voices of those who would otherwise not be heard. She devotes herself to cause-based social justice projects, & strives to cover issues confronting the environment and marginalized communities.
Bianca Beyrouti | Associate Producer
Bianca Beyrouti is a proud Bay Area born-and-bred indie filmmaker who has spent the last decade bringing order to the chaos that is movie-making. By day she serves as the associate producer of the award-winning documentary series Independent Lens at ITVS; she moonlights as a producer of narrative short and features. Her most noteworthy producing credit is the award-winning indie feature Bring Me an Avocado, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime, Google Play, YouTube Movies, and Tubi. Her numerous short film credits have screened at film festivals throughout the U.S. and abroad. She has also served on various screening and review committees and panels, and is a proud member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia and the Scary Cow filmmaking collective.
Eriq Robinson | Composer
Eriq Robinson is a composer and bassist based in New York City. A Wesleyan University graduate, Eriq has performed with a collection of New York Free Jazz luminaries such as William Hooker and Ras Moshe Burnett. He is a working bassist for numerous up and coming Pop, R&B, and Hip Hop projects.
Saron Penrose | Graphic Designer
Saron Penrose is a proud Bronx, NY native who creates compelling graphic design and illustration work. She designs impactful marketing collateral, branding, and social media content for professional brands including scientific manufacturers, pop culture websites, and television media. Saron uses vivid colors and a unique drawing style to create memorable designs that engage and educate audiences.
Theresa Navarro | Executive Producer
Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Theresa is a Pinay cultural worker and working mama whose career in media arts spans two decades. Prior to Catapult, she served as vice president of external affairs at American Documentary, the New York-based nonprofit behind Emmy Award-winning series ‘POV’ on PBS. An Independent Spirit Award-nominated producer, her credits include Chinatown sports documentary 9-Man (director Ursula Liang), Peabody Award-winning anthology series ‘America Reframed’ on WORLD Channel (supervising producer Carmen L. Vicencio), and sci-fi feminist feature Advantageous (director Jennifer Phang, producers Robert Chang, Jacqueline Kim, Ken Jeong, Moon Molson), which won the Special Prize for Collaborative Vision at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.