Lauren Fisher: Emmy Award-Winning Animator + Creative Director
LAUREN FISHER is a designer, animator and director with over 15 years of experience in the entertainment and sports industry. She specializes in creating visually arresting content that experiments with animation, live-action and emerging technologies to tell compelling stories and delight audiences. In 2018 she developed a pilot for a short-form docuseries called Greatness Code with Religion Of Sports, which was picked up by Apple TV and won an Emmy for animation.
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Filmmakers Rose Tucker + Matthew Salleh
ROSE TUCKER AND MATTHEW SALLEH are a Brooklyn, NY-based director/producer team named Urtext Films that has created award-winning films, and award-winning commercials. They are focused on honest and authentic content, with a global and cinematic scope. Rose Tucker is a producer, sound recordist, and editor. Matthew Salleh is a director, cinematographer, and editor.
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Author, Filmmaker Sebastian Junger — Still on Track
SEBASTIAN JUNGER is the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, Fire, A Death in Belmont, War, Tribe, and Freedom. As an award-winning journalist, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a special correspondent at ABC News, he has covered major international news stories around the world. Junger is also a documentary filmmaker whose debut film “Restrepo” (co-directed with Tim Hetherington), was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
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Ramón Rodríguez: Actor, Writer, Director, Activist
RAMÓN RODRÍGUEZ is an actor, director, writer, producer, and activist who was born in Manhattan, moved to Puerto Rico for a few years, and returned to Manhattan. He moved to Los Angeles to engage with the film industry.
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Gail Strickland: Consummate Actress
GAIL STRICKLAND (b.1947) is an American actress who had prominent supporting roles in such major films as “The Drowning Pool” (1975) starring Paul Newman , “Bound for Glory” (1976) starring David Carradine, :Who’ll Stop the Rain” (1978) starring Nick Nolte, “Norma Rae” (1979) starring Sally Field, “Protocol” (1984) starring Goldie Hawn, and “The American President” (1995) starring Michael Douglas.
Strickland also appeared regularly on MANY network television shows.
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