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MOUNTAIN QUEEN: THE SUMMITS OF LHAKPA SHERPA

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Netflix Picks Up Lucy Walker’s ‘Mountain Queen’ Doc

Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa, directed by Lucy Walker, tells the remarkable story of Lhakpa Sherpa who, as a girl denied an education, concealed her gender to work in the mountains. She became the first Nepali woman to summit Everest before immigrating to the US where she’s raised children as a single mother and climbs in pursuit of a better life.

Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival 2023
Coming to Netflix in 2024

Director: Lucy Walker

Production Companies: SKG, OBB Pictures, and Avocados and Coconuts

Role: Second-Unit Director & Field Producer, Mount Everest Team

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HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND

WATCH THE SERIES ON NETFLIX

The limited series adaptation of Michael Pollan’s bestselling book How To Change Your Mind launched on Netflix on 12 July 2022. This series is the culmination of two years of collaboration with scientists, patients and practitioners who have found healing in psychedelic medicines – plant or compound.

AWARDS

2023 News & Documentary Primetime Emmy Awards (Nomination) – Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction: Documentary

PRESS
The New York Times – With ‘How to Change Your Mind,’ Taking a Trip With Michael Pollan – 15 July 2022

WNYC’s Documentary of the Week – Michael Pollan trips out in “How to Change Your Mind” – 15 July 2022

TIME – Michael Pollan on the Psychedelic Renaissance and Netflix’s New ‘How to Change Your Mind’ Documentary – 12 July 2022

The Guardian – How to Change Your Mind: the documentary that wants you to think again about LSD – 12 July 2022

Rolling Stone – The Never-Ending Psychedelic Trip of Michael Pollan – 3 July 2022

Role: Producer

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MOONLIGHT SONATA: DEAFNESS IN THREE MOVEMENTS

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Weaving a story about what we discover when we push beyond loss, Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements is a deeply personal memoir by Irene Taylor about a deaf boy growing up, his deaf grandfather growing old, and Ludwig van Beethoven as he went deaf and wrote his iconic sonata.

Moonlight Sonata premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2019 and is now available on HBO.

AWARDS

2020 Primetime Emmy Awards (Nomination) – Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking

Roles: Producer

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WILDCAT

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Back from war in Afghanistan, a young British soldier struggling with depression and PTSD finds a second chance in the Amazon rainforest when he meets an American scientist, and together they foster an orphaned baby ocelot.

Directed and Produced by Melissa Lesh & Trevor Frost

Produced by Alysa Nahmias, Joshua Altman

AWARDS

2023 News & Documentary Primetime Emmy Award (Winner) –
Outstanding Nature Documentary

2023 News & Documentary Primetime Emmy Award (Nominations) –
Outstanding Direction: Documentary
Outstanding Music Composition

Role: Consulting Producer

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ECHOES IN THE ARCTIC


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A team of dedicated filmmakers and scientists document the world’s healthiest orca population in the Norwegian Arctic to help protect it from oil exploration. Echoes in the Arctic premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival.

Role: Co-director, Producer

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BETWEEN SOUND AND SILENCE

Experience the Op-Doc at The New York Times

This summer I worked with director Irene Taylor Brodsky on The New York Times Op-Doc, Between Sound and Silence, exploring the impact of technology on the deaf experience through the eyes of young deaf adults. Irene has a unique perspective on sensory augmentation, being the mother and daughter of deaf people who each wear cochlear implants. The Op-Doc was born out of a longer film Vermilion Films produced earlier this year, The Listening Project.

Roles: Producer

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OPENDOOR STORIES



In collaboration with Gnarly Bay, I recently directed a series of short films for Opendoor, a new real estate platform that puts the power in buyers’ and sellers’ hands. Each of these films focuses on genuine and heartfelt stories of couples and families who facing the challenge of buying a home – made possible by partnering with Opendoor.

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SWEETLAND CANDIES

I told the heartfelt story of century-old family business Sweetland Candies for Facebook for Business in collaboration with Stept Studios. The Naums are third-generation immigrants who have weathered many eras of challenge to create a thriving local candy store. This was part of a five-part series highlighting how Facebook helps support small businesses.

Role: Director

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HOMELESS: THE SOUNDTRACK

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After being taken away from her parents as a baby by the state and given up for adoption, singer-songwriter “Cami” Jenni Alpert went searching for her birth father. She finally finds him: homeless, toothless, addicted. And a musician, just like her.

Homeless: The Soundtrack follows their first tentative months together, reunited as father and daughter, playing music as they go.

Directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky and produced by Vermilion Films & Chockstone Pictures.

Roles: Producer, Additional Editing

Awards:
Special jury mention – Tribeca Film Festival 2018
Best short film – Nantucket Film Festival 2018

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THE CREEK SESSIONS

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With Stept Studios I directed a short film about composer and conservationist Jess Kilroy who makes music using natural sounds recorded in wilderness areas to bring awareness to the importance of protecting these wild open spaces. The Creek Sessions is a sensory meditation on her process, encouraging us to tune into the sounds of the wild that we often take for granted. The film premiered at 2019 Mountainfilm Festival.

Role: Director