Martha Shane | Director and Producer

Martha Shane (she/her) is an Emmy-award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her directorial debut After Tiller premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and won the Emmy for Best Documentary. In 2019, her film Picture Character, a feature-length documentary about emoji, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Martha produced and co-wrote the award-winning documentary From This Day Forward, which was theatrically released by Argot Pictures and broadcast on the PBS documentary series POV, and she produced and co-directed the feature documentary Bi the Way, which had its premiere at the SXSW Film Festival and was broadcast on MTV’s LOGO channel. In addition to directing and producing, Martha is an editor whose recent credits include 11/8/16 (The Orchard, Netflix, 2017), ACORN and the Firestorm (Independent Lens, 2018), and the Emmy-nominated Personal Statement (PBS’s America ReFramed, 2018).

Beck Kitsis | Producer

Beck Kitsis (she/her) is a writer, director, and producer based in New York City. Selected as a 2019 Sundance Screenwriters Intensive Fellow, Beck is currently co-writing and producing Strawberry Summer, which has received support from the Sundance Institute, Cinereach, and Ruth Ann Harnisch. She is also in production on the short horror film The Three Men You Meet at Night and developing Route One, a psychological thriller about an incel (involuntary celibate), which will mark her feature directorial debut. She produced the short horror film The Rat (2019 Sundance Film Festival), the feature-length documentary Narrowsburg (2019 Camden International Film Festival), and the experimental short The Inconceivable Mountain (premiering on NoBudge later this year). Her music and music videos have been featured across many publications, including NYLON, Pitchfork, and Stereogum. In 2019, she was selected as a member of Film at Lincoln Center’s Artist Academy at the 2019 New York Film Festival. Beck graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in Film Studies and East Asian Studies.

Alexandra Cadena | Executive Producer

Alexandra Cadena (she/her) is a graduate of Yale University and Commercial Theatre Institute alum. She is currently pursuing a J.D. at the University of California Irvine School of Law, specializing in entertainment and intellectual property law. Ms. Cadena has worked extensively as a producer and production manager with the Yale Cabaret, Mabou Mines Suite/Space residency, Corkscrew Theater Festival (Corkscrew Downstairs), New York International Fringe Festival, New Ohio’s Archive Residency, Access Theater, and the 24 Hour Plays. She has vast experience in film, and her production company, AC Pictures, has several award-winning shorts that have premiered at Worldfest-Houston, New York Shorts International Film Festival, and many more. Ms. Cadena is thrilled to have had the opportunity to work as an executive producer with Martha Shane and Beck Kitsis on Narrowsburg. She looks forward to putting her law degree to good use in becoming an advocate to champion early-career artists in both the independent film and theatre industries — upcoming work: White Flags (starring Shaunette Renee Wilson, online release).

Jose Cadena | Executive Producer

Jose Cadena (he/him) is a graduate of Harvard Law School. He currently works as a tax attorney and entrepreneur. Jose is a lover and supporter of independent film and theater.

Chris McNabb | Editor

Chris McNabb (they/them) is a Brooklyn-based editor. Their past nonfiction work includes the Emmy Award-winning interactive documentary {THE AND} (IDFA 2014) and the accompanying short film {THE AND} Marcela & Rock (Sundance 2015). In 2016, McNabb was selected as a Sundance Documentary Edit & Story Lab Fellow. McNabb’s feature editorial debut Whose Streets? premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim. The film was distributed by Magnolia Pictures and nominated for Gotham, Critics’ Choice, and Peabody Awards. McNabb recently edited the short horror film The Rat (Sundance 2019) and Martha Shane's feature doc Narrowsburg (Camden International Film Festival 2019). They are currently editing Lisa Leeman’s feature-length documentary Trans*formed, a follow-up to the Sundance-award-winning documentary Metamorphosis.

Frederick Shanahan | Editor

Frederick Shanahan (he/him) is a freelance film editor based in New York City. He has worked on several award-winning documentaries, including the Emmy-nominated feature The City Dark, which aired on PBS as part of the POV series in 2012, The Search for General Tso, which premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival and was part of the IFC Sundance Selects in 2014, and The Birth of Sake, which was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. He also worked on the Netflix original documentary series Cooked, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2016.

Jarred Alterman | Director of Photography

Jarred Alterman (he/him) is cinematographer and documentary filmmaker who won best cinematography at Tribeca Film Festival for Contemporary Color, a multi camera David Byrne concert/doc film directed by Bill and Turner Ross. He has worked in music and dance related projects for over twenty years, including Charles Atlas and Merce Cunningham Dance Company and recently Arcade Fire. He photographed Project X. a short film by the Academy Award winning filmmaker Laura Poitras (Citizen Four) that played at Sundance ’17. Recently he was Director of Photography for Bisbee ’17 a feature film dir. by Robert Greene and The Proposal directed by Jill Magid. He produced and lensed Walled Unwalled, directed by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, which has played at TIFF, NYFF and the Tate Modern. His documentary, Convento, has played all over the world and won a special jury prize at IFFBoston.

Nathan Michel | Original Music

Nathan Michel (he/him) is a composer and producer working in a range of musical styles including classical, rock, experimental and ambient. His band, Hospitality, has released two full-length albums on Merge Records, and toured worldwide. Rolling Stone named their debut album a top record of 2012. Nathan has also released four solo recordings of experimental pop music on the labels Sonig, Tigerbeat6, Skipp and Tomlab. Pitchfork called his solo music "daring, but highly listenable." A classically trained composer, Nathan received a Ph.D. in composition from Princeton and also studied at the Yale School of Music, The Royal Conservatory in The Netherlands (with Louis Andriessen) and Bowdoin College. He was a featured composer for the 2014 Ecstatic Music festival and has also written pieces for the Now Ensemble, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, and others. His score for Lana Wilson’s film The Departure was described as “haunting” by the New York Times. He lives in Charleston, SC with his wife and two children.