DIRECTOR
INDRANI PAL-CHAUDHURI
WRITER
JAMIE DONOGHUE
STORY BY:
VERONIKA MUDRA
PRODUCERS
SHEILA SHAH
VERONIKA MUDRA
MARINA MASOWIETSKY
GK REID
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
PAULA SCHWARZ
SUNNY VACCHER
JULIA VERDIN
CO-PRODUCER
MELISSA LAHTI, NEW MOON FILMS
DOUBLE EXPOSURE STUDIOS
DAVID ZANARDI, SOLAX
ALEXIS BAKER
CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
BASSEL ALZARO
STARRING
HELENA HOWARD
REEVE CARNEY
EDI GATHEGI
BASSEL ALZARO
CO-STARRING
CARIENA BRITCH
JAYDEN JOYNER
KYM WILSON
CHRIS KRIESA
BANYAH MARIA CHOI
DARKO OSTOJIC
RIGAN MACHADO
SUPPORTING CAST
EDDIE BROUSSEAU
ISRAEL DAVID GROVEMAN
RONEL SIMILIEN
TADEO SORICE
CARRA BECKMANN
LAURA CHIRINO
ALEX ZUBACH
TAYLOR BROWN
STUDENTS & PARENTS AT IVY LEAGUE ACADEMY
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
RAY WONGCHINDA
JAMIE TRENT
EDITOR
PETER MOSTERT, HOOLIGAN
COLORIST
MARIA CARRETE
NICE SHOES
SR.VFX ARTIST:
AMANDA AMALFI
SR.VISUAL EFFECTS PRODUCER:
VERONICA WARE
ADDITIONAL VFX ARTIST:
LUC JOB
ONLINE EDITORS:
ALEX HARTLEY
RACHAEL BLACK
MUSIC SUPERVISOR:
INBAL MEGIDDO
COMPOSER
MICHAEL WILLIAMS
SOUND DESIGNER AND MIXER:
T.TERRESSA TATE, HEARD CITY
PRODUCTION SOUND AND RE-RECORDING SUPERVISOR:
MARIO MANTI-GAULTIERO
2ND AD:
TINA QUACH
SHANELLE "SHAGGY" SIMMS
SOUND MIXERS:
YJ GOLD
FRANK GALVEZ
ASSISTANT EDITOR:
SHANE DEBLASIO
DI ASSISTANTS:
REBECCA CONNER
MYAHDELLESE JONES
SENIOR DI PRODUCER:
MEGAN RUMPH
PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATORS:
TESS CACCIATORE
SAMUEL MORRIS
TADEOSO RICE
EDDIE BROUSSEAU
NANA PONCELEON
FILIP SERTIC
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS:
RONEL SIMILIEN
CARRA BECKMAN
FILIP SERTIC
TAYLOR BROWN
CHRISTOPHER ROBIN
CONNOR STORRIE
PRODUCER & SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCATE
OSCAR NOMINATED
WRITER
FOUNDER OF THE WORLD DATA-ECONOMIC FORUM, REFUGEES RIGHTS ACTIVIST
JAMIE DONOGHUE
GK
REID
PAULA SCHWARZ
GK Reid is a multidisciplinary artist working in film and photography, producing iconic works that move millions to action. Described as “A Renaissance man” by Soma Magazine, for his multifaceted collaborative approach across film, fashion design, music, and social justice advocacy, resulting in numerous awards and museum exhibitions worldwide. Films GK has produced have won over 35 awards including The Tribeca Film Festival Disruptor Award 2019, two Gold Lions at Cannes Festival of Creativity, Best Picture at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, and Best Picture at the CNN Expose Awards. His work has been featured at the Lincoln Center NY, Center Pompidou Paris, The V&A London, The Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of the Fashion Institute, The Rubin Museum of Art, the Daphne Guinness exhibition in the windows of Barney's NY, SHOWstudio London, The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and The Australian Museum of the Moving Image.
Jamie Donoughue is a Leeds UK-based writer and director whose short film SHOK was Nominated for an Academy Award in 2016. In the same year he directed a block of the second series of LAST KINGDOM (Carnival Films for BBC America) and in 2018 a block of THE INNOCENTS for Netflix (New Pictures). He also directed an episode of the latest series of ENDEAVOUR (ITV/Mammoth Screen) receiving rave reviews. Jamie is currently developing an original TV series with Heyday and NBC Universal entitled ALL IS ONE and is shooting the first and final blocks of S3 of A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES for Sky and AMC).
Paula Schwarz is a Founder of the World Data-Economic Forum. The WDF provides transparency for both corporates as well as business leaders in regards to their progress on SDG8 Decent Work, SDG9 Innovation and SDG 12 Responsible Production and Consumption. WDF has created the metrics which are legally binding for companies, individuals and state actors in Special Data Zones Economic (SDG Cities) in order to help people move from a need for 'economic functionality‘ to their right as free parts of a collective society in which they can trust each other. SDG Cities are mainly financed through the Scaled Impact Alliance of the World Data-Economic Forum in partnership with regional public-sector entities and the World Bank. WDF and Paula Schwarz work in close partnership with all UN institutions, with a strong focus on the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UNSDSN, Paris), the Global Sustainable Index Institute Foundation (UNGSII, Vienna), UN Academic Impact and other institutions to fast track the Global Goals of the United Nations. Paula Schwarz co-founded the Refugee First Response Center as well as the Pythagoras Academy together with Cisco, the local governments in Greece and Turkey enabling migrants to keep their dignity and improve their skills.
SPECIAL THANKS:
DEAD GRAFFITI WRITERS SOCIETY
TROY A. GAYESKI
PEPE BRETON, EUFLORA
MARIETTE VOLYNSKA, FILMSTER
SHAWN, WYNTON HOUSE
THOMAS AND SPOON, VENICE ALE HOUSE
SCOTT LIBRANDO, COVX LABS
IVY LEAGUE ACADEMY
NICE SHOES
HOOLIGAN
HEARD CITY
THE CAMERA DIVISION
THE FLORENCE BELSKY FOUNDATION
UN WOMEN
ACTRESS
ACTOR
ACTOR
HELENA HOWARD
REEVE
CARNEY
EDI
GATHEGI
Helena Howard is an African American actress of Eastern European origins, best known for her role in Josephine Decker's film Madeline's Madeline, which was hailed by IndieWire as one of the best performances of the decade and 2nd on The New Yorker's list of the best film performances of the 21st century. As Nora Reid in The Wilds she is described by The Hollywood Reporter as "enigmatic."
Reeve Carney is an American actor and singer-songwriter, starring opposite Lady Gaga, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, and Adam Driver, in the Gucci film directed by Ridley Scott. He is the star of Hadestown, in the original Broadway cast of the Tony Award-winning musical which won the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. And he will take on the lead role in the upcoming Jeff Buckley biopic, Everybody Here Wants You.
Recently starring in The Harder they Fall and For All Mankind, Gathegi is best known as "Big Love" in the TV series House, as Cheese in Gone Baby Gone, Laurent in the films Twilight and The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and as Darwin in X-Men: First Class. Edi also featured in the AMC series Into the Badlands and was a recurring character in NBC's TV series, The Blacklist and The Blacklist: Redemption. He has also played a leading role in Startup a TV drama series on Crackle.
DIRECTOR,
SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCATE
CEO/FOUNDER WHITE RIBBON USA
STORY BY
WOMEN RIGHTS A
PRODUCER, ACTRESS, HUMANITARIAN, ADVOCATE
INDRANI
PAL-CHAUDHURI
VERONIKA
MUDRA
SHEILA
SHAH
"Leading director and voice for female empowerment," Tribeca Film Festival Disruptive Innovator award-winning director, photographer, and social justice advocate Indrani creates transformative works of art and impact. Recognized by the United Nations as a Women's Entrepreneurship Distinguished Fellow and a Max Mark-Cranfield Global Peacemaker, her work is shown at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, the Lincoln Center, and Center Pompidou Paris. Mentored by David Bowie and Iman, who commissioned her video on mass shooters, featured on HBO's "The Last 5 Years," her work on HIV in Africa won two gold lions at Cannes Festival of Creativity, and her sex trafficking film won the CNN Expose Award. She is co-founder of Open Origin and Shakti Empowerment Education Foundation, Co-Host of the Global People’s Summit at the United Nations, keynote speaker at Harvard University Pride & Progress Film Symposium, and a Princeton University graduate and Visiting Lecturer.
Veronika Mudra is the CEO of White Ribbon USA, a women's rights advocate, and public speaker. She is a former refugee from Ukraine under the domestic violence protection program and received asylum in the United States. Veronika has been working in the nonprofit sector in executive positions for the past 5 years, leading White Ribbon Campaign in several countries. She focuses on the development of support programs for refugees under domestic violence, early gender equality education for children, affordable and supportive housing, advancing women economic empowerment and gender equality in workplaces. Mudra is a TEDxWOMEN speaker, and a participant in the “Women. Peace. Security” and IPCC gender task group.
Sheila Shah is a producer, actress, advocate, and humanitarian. She speaks fluent Farsi, French, and English. Sheila is focused on projects with social impact and social change. Shah serves as an Ambassador for the March of Dimes of Canada. She is also an Advocate, ambassador and Goobal Advisory Council for CARE to help fight poverty by empowering women and girls. Among her efforts to help raise awareness she attended the National Conference to advocate for CARE in Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, and has been involved in their campaigns for the International day of the girl. Sheila is an ambassador for both White Ribbon USA and Canada. She has supported the David Lynch Foundation and Go Campaign, and the “World Is In Our Hands" campaign for the United Nations Environment program, to raise awareness for climate change. In addition she has also hosted many NGOs.