Meet The Film Team
DIRECTOR
Bill Guttentag
Bill is a two-time Oscar-winning writer-producer-director for dramatic and documentary films. He won an Academy Award for the documentary Twin Towers (Universal). He won a second Academy Award, and received three additional nominations, plus a Peabody Award, three Emmy Awards, two Writers Guild Award nominations, and a Producers Guild Award nomination. He has directed multiple films for HBO, most recently Only the Dead See the End of War. He co-created and executive-produced the NBC series Law & Order: Crime & Punishment. He directed the theatrical documentaries Nanking (ThinkFilm) and Soundtrack for a Revolution (Wild Bunch). He wrote and directed the dramatic features Knife Fight (IFC) starring Rob Lowe and Carrie-Ann Moss, and LIVE! (Atlas Entertainment) starring Eva Mendes and Andre Braugher, each of which premiered at Tribeca.
VOICE OVER BY ACTRESS
Michelle Trachtenberg
Trachtenberg grew up in Brooklyn and started her acting career young; she began appearing in commercials at the age of 3.
Michelle Trachtenberg is known for her starring role as Dawn Summers in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2000–03) and as Georgina Sparks in Gossip Girl (2007–2012), and in the films Harriet the Spy (1996); Inspector Gadget (1999); EuroTrip (2004); Ice Princess (2005); Black Christmas (2006) and 17 Again (2009).
PRODUCER
Jennifer Hutchins
Jennifer has produced nearly 60 television series, films & pilots for most of the major networks, distributors & streamers, including over 100 episodes of Criss Angel Mindfreak (A&E), Ghost Hunters International (SYFY) and The Car Show starring Adam Carolla (Fox Sports). Jennifer's highlighted feature films include Most Likely to Die distributed by Mar Vista Entertainment; Time Toys directed by Mark Rosman starring Ed Begley Jr. & Greg Germann; and Unfollowed, which was presented by director Timur Bekmambetov at the 2021 Toronto Film Festival and is being sold by Endeavor Content and Interface Films. Her most recent docuseries That Animal Rescue Show with Academy Award winning directors Richard Linklater & Bill Guttentag is airing on Paramount +.
COMPOSER
David Kahne
David is a Grammy winning composer who produced MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett, the 1995 Grammy Award winner for Album of the Year. Kahne has produced records for artists including Paul McCartney, Fishbone, Sublime, The Strokes, Sugar Ray, The Bangles, Stevie Nicks, New Order, Lana Del Rey, The Outfield, and Regina Spektor among many others. He has dozens of soundtracks and composing credits on films ranging across many genres, including Goonies, Say Anything, Vanilla Sky, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Sopranos and Transformers.
SOUND DESIGNER
Steve Boeddeker
Steve is a 3-time Oscar nominated and Emmy award-winning sound designer and re-recording mixer whose past film projects include Black Panther, Creed, Bridge of Spies, Pixels, Chappie, All is Lost, Lincoln, Beasts of the Southern Wild, TRON: Legacy, Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fight Club, Se7en and many more.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
TERENCE MICHAEL
Terence Michael has produced, developed, and delivered story content, in film and television, by virtue of his ownership in three separate production companies which have covered work for most major studios, networks, and agencies in Hollywood. He has produced feature films distributed by Sony, Universal, MGM, Lionsgate, and HBO; and he has executive produced or "showrun" television shows airing on Discovery +, NBC, Fox, MTV, VH1, Showtime, Lifetime, TLC, Spike, Esquire, Syfy, Travel Channel, Bravo, Hulu, TNT/TBS, and A&E.
CO-PRODUCER
Lee Rothenflue
Lee Rothenflue is a producer, post producer and editor with over 20 years of experience in film and video production. Credits include feature films such as 12 Mighty Orphans with Luke Wilson and Martin Sheen, Blazing World, Hi I’m Blake and Frank and Penelope. He has worked in Peru, China, Guatemala, El Salvador, Haiti & Kenya to produce, shoot and edit a wide array of projects. Working on 9 feature films and a dozen narrative short films, his film experience has continued to expand across multiple styles and genres.
EDITOR
Nick Bradford
Nick Bradford is an award-winning editor in film and television. ‘Gaga: Five Foot Two’, was featured in the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and went on to win a Webby for Best Documentary Editing. ‘I Am Going to Break Your Heart’ was nominated for a 2019 Canadian Screen Award for Best Biography or Arts Documentary. Nick has worked on projects for HBO, CBS, Disney, Quibi, and many others as well as for directors Alejandro Innaritu, Bill Pohlad and Alfonso Gomez-Rejon.
CO-PRODUCER
Randall Scott White
Randall Scott White is a producer, musician, and content producer. He decided to share this very personal and revealing story about his family’s journey as a way to work through his own pain as he went through over thirteen years of horrifyingly raw emotion in the footage he captured. He wants to share the tragic and true struggle his family fought and lost with a disease they didn’t understand. Michelle died by suicide and Randall aims to inspire others with hope and treatment before it’s too late. Randall and his daughter Charlotte now reside in Austin, Texas where they advocate for mental health awareness.