Director/Producer/Cinematographer

Jay Coggeshall has directed and produced numerous documentary films, beginning with THE RIVER, filmed on the Cheyenne Reservation in Lamedeer, Montana, exploring the origins of the Tongue River. It received the first Earth Day Film Award in Bozeman, Montana. Other highlights include A SENSE OF PRIVILEGE, documenting his eight-hundred-mile trek along the proposed route of the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline to oppose its construction, and ARCTIC MIRROR, a Short Subject Academy Award nominee, following his six-month kayaking and hiking trip across the Alaskan Arctic, visiting people along the way who had chosen self-sufficient lives in the wilderness. He also made FIRST LIGHT, capturing the effect of an extended Arctic trek on eight high schoolers. He was the cinematographer for THE SALMONBERRY STORY, directed by Ralph Liddle, depicting the construction of a wilderness camp for developmentally disabled Native children in Valdez, Alaska, and for MEN ALONE, directed by Gretel Ehrlich, portraying sheep herders in Wyoming’s Big Horn Mountains. Jay studied film at Denver University and Montana State University. He lives in New Jersey and New Mexico with his wife and producing partner, Susan Henoch. His latest film, THE LIFE YOU’RE GIVEN, is his most personal film to date, following his daughter Sophie’s ongoing thirty-five-year journey with the rare and complex genetic disorder, Prader-Willi syndrome.

Producer

Susan Henoch worked with Jay as co-producer and sound technician on a documentary film, FIRST LIGHT, about the effects of a three-month wilderness expedition they led on the lives of a disparate group of high school students from around the world.

Little did Susan know in 1988 when Jay began filming scenes of their family life that thirty-five years later, these would form the core of the documentary film, THE LIFE YOU’RE GIVEN, which she co-produced.

Editor

David Leach has been editing films for over 40 years, beginning in Toronto, Canada, cutting commercials, documentaries, and episodic drama series for Disney, Showtime and CBC. Since moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1991, he’s edited numerous television and feature documentaries. The television films have been broadcast on PBS, TLC, Hallmark, Discovery, and National Geographic. The features have been seen widely throughout the United States, Canada and beyond in theaters and on streaming services.

DOROTHEA LANGE: GRAB A HUNK OF LIGHTNING made for the PBS series American Masters won Best Editing by the United Nations Association Film Festival.

DYING TO KNOW: RAM DASS AND TIMOTHY LEARY (narration writer and editor), a 96-minute film about the long relationship between two 20th-century icons and their transformative work has been shown theatrically around the United States.

MAX EVANS: THE FIRST THOUSAND YEARS (writer, editor, co-director) had its PBS premiere in 2019 after a run of film festivals. It chronicles the life of acclaimed New Mexico author Max Evans, with Max’s writings read by Sam Elliott.

Animator

May Kindred-Boothby is a Bristol-based animation artist. Since graduating from Brighton University in 2016 she has worked on a number of diverse projects, for clients ranging from the BBC to current poet laureate Simon Armitage. She specializes in documentary work and has been widely acclaimed in this area, most notably for her work on the Emmy nominated short I HAVE A MESSAGE FOR YOU. Using frame-by-frame animation, she brings imagination, humor, and sensitivity to often difficult subjects. When not focusing on documentary projects, she makes music videos for acclaimed musicians such as Cosmo Sheldrake and Tom Rosentile. Here she allows herself full expression of her imagination but always wherever possible, including a strong moral or social function.

Composer

Jami Sieber is a celebrated pioneer of her instrument with an inspiring and fearless style of performance that has been recognized internationally. Sieber creates her own kind of world music, boasting immediate emotional impact and conveying a visionary presence that goes beyond the gorgeous melodies and tribal rhythms. Reaching inside the soul with compositions that are lush and powerfully evocative, her music transforms from the deepest stillness to moving melodies and rhythms that light the heart on fire. Her life-long commitment to the environment, social justice, and the healing arts is at the heart of her music, reflecting a deep dedication to the arts as a medium to express the interconnectedness of all beings.

This sometimes ethereal, sometimes hard-edged musician has earned rave reviews throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. Employing looping devices and electronics to create sounds never before associated with the cello, Sieber transforms her solo instrument into an orchestra of sound that opens the heart, defies the mind, and sets the body dancing. Sieber's musical path has traveled from classical to folk to rock/pop to where now she stands in her own genre-defying musical style. Since launching her solo career in 1994, she has performed her original compositions around the world, diving into dynamic collaborations with an extraordinary spectrum of dancers, actors, poets, visual artists, improvisers, vocalists, and instrumentalists that span the globe. She has been commissioned to compose for film, (PBS American Masters - DOROTHEA LANGE: GRAB A HUNK OF LIGHTNING (2014), BIG JOY: THE ADVENTURES OF JAMES BROUGHTON (2013), QUEEN OF THE SUN (2010), JEWS AND BUDDISM: BELIEF AMENDED, FAITH REVEALED (1999)) theatre, (Orpheus, TS Crossing) dance, (Llory Wilson and Tallulah, Equus Dance Project, Facing East Dance Co.) and her compositions have been used in the popular video game – Braid. Jami Sieber has independently produced eight recordings on her label Out Front Music.

Composer

Evan Schiller is a Seattle-based recording and mix engineer, musician, soundtrack composer, mastering engineer, and producer.

Evan has been playing and recording music since the messy age of 5 in the 1970s. Owner of zulusound studio, Evan has recorded, mixed and/or performed with such artists as Sadhappy, Eyvind Kang, Jami Sieber, Mike Keneally (Frank Zappa band), Skerik, Michael Manring, Ahamefule J. Oluo, Timothy Young and Very Special Forces, Don McGreevey/ DIRTFACE, Alan Bishop, The Invisible Hands (Egypt), Joshua Kohl and the Degenerate Art Ensemble, Sera Cahoone, Alex Guy, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, Samantha Boshnack, Wayne Horvitz, Mike Patton, Bill Frisell, etc.

He has composed soundtracks for films, documentaries, TV commercials such as Magic the Gathering, contemporary dance, PSA's, computer games, and modern theater.. Evan recently co-composed (with cellist Jami Sieber) the PBS American Masters documentary DOROTHEA LANGE: GRAB A HUNK OF LIGHTNING.

Evan studied percussion performance, music theory, and ear training at Western Washington University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in audio/video production at The Evergreen State College. Schiller played drums with the instrumental punk/jazz band Sadhappy, which included (at different times): Paul Hinklin, Skerik, Michael Manring, and Mike Keneally (Frank Zappa band).