OUR TEAM
MACKY ALSTON
Co-Director & Co-Producer
Emmy-nominated & Sundance award-winning documentary filmmaker. Founder, Auburn Media. Films include Love Free or Die (PBS), Hard Road Home (PBS), The Killer Within (Discovery), Questioning Faith (HBO), and Family Name (PBS). Has appeared widely in the press, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show & The New York Times. Media trained over 10,000 faith and justice leaders, including many of today’s most influential prophetic voices.
SELINA LEWIS DAVIDSON
Co-Director & Co-Producer
Co-founded GreenHouse Pictures in 2003, a documentary production company that has produced more than 15 nationally broadcast documentaries, including the Emmy nominated Hard Road Home (director: Macky Alston) and Occupation: Dreamland (directors: Garrett Scott and Ian Olds), which was released theatrically and won the 2006 Independent Spirit Truer than Fiction award.
ABBY SHUMAN
Executive Producer
Worked in the fields of social justice, mental health and education for over 30 years. A clinical psychologist with a Masters from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a PhD from Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, she is deeply committed to the intersecting goals of economic and racial justice, Abby has studied extensively in the areas of slavery and its living legacies as well as the many movements for civil rights.
TONY HARDMON
Director of Photography
Co-directed the Oscar-shortlisted and Emmy-nominated documentary Semper Fi: Always Faithful, which tells the story of the water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and chronicles the work of Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger. Tony is a veteran cinematographer who has worked on some of the most celebrated projects for television and theatrical release.
NATASHA LIVIA MOTTOLA
Editor
Natasha Livia Mottola has been working in documentary since 2008. She was an Editor for RELATIVE, THE FIRST STEP and MILES DAVIS, BIRTH OF THE COOL. She has collaborated as associate editor on MY REINCARNATION and THE ARMOR OF LIGHT. She is a proud member of ADE and NATAS and is committed to making an impact by promoting mentorship in the Edit Room. She is trilingual and proud of her Italian and Ecuadorian roots.
CAMARA KAMBON
Composer
Won an Emmy in 1995 for the HBO film Sonny Liston: The Mysterious Life and Death of a Champion. He has collaborated with artists from Dizzy Gillespie to Dr. Dre, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra to Mary J. Blige and Eminem. He earned two more Emmy nominations for scoring sports-related HBO films and three Grammy nominations for co-writing the Blige No. 1 hit Family Affair and for his keyboard work on Nelly Furtado’s Whoa, Nelly! and Eve’s Scorpion.
SAHAR DRIVER
Impact Strategist
San Francisco-based impact and engagement strategist, researcher, and educator focused on the intersection of media and social change. Campaigns for documentaries and organizations include: PFLAG, Teaching Tolerance, ACLU on issues including immigration, racial justice and worker advocacy. Produced independent shows for SF Community Access TV before joining Active Voice in 2008.
MELINDA WEEKES-LAIDLOW
Impact Producer
Melinda Weekes-Laidlow is ​a process facilitator, narrative strategist, attorney, ordained minister, and social entrepreneur. In addition to her consulting work through Weekes In Advance Enterprises, Melinda is the Founder of Beautiful Ventures, a narrative change social enterprise for creatives who influence popular culture, disrupt anti-blackness, and elevate perceptions of Black humanity. Learn more about Melinda at melindaweekes.com.
JULIA RHODES DAVIS
Impact & Associate Producer
Julia Rhodes Davis is a producer, organizer, resource mobilizer and entrepreneur. Early experiences organizing disaster relief, rooted her in the power of place-based community. Working towards a truly representative democracy, she was Board Chair of Vote.org for seven years. Her research and writing explores how the work of repair contributes to collective liberation. Davis’ work is animated by her cultural inheritance as the descendant of anti-racist activists and enslavers. JRDavis.me
ARTEMIS FANNIN
Associate Producer
ELSPETH GILMORE
Associate Producer
Has spent the past 18 years organizing for the equitable distribution of wealth, land, and power, notably as the director of Resource Generation. Elspeth is a visual artist living in NYC and a graduate of Earlham College.
ELLY SCHMIDT-HOPPER
Associate Producer
A documentary producer with ten years of experience working in the field, Elly Schmidt-Hopper’s past projects have explored food system justice, climate change,
disability rights, and social change.
