Kerthy Fix

Kerthy’s very first film credit was on the indie classic, Slacker and her first television credit was the PBS series Austin City Limits holding cue cards for Willie Nelson. 

She spent the 1990’s in Austin, Texas where one could both work at the Texas Senate as a director in the Media Department and also do weirdo performance art with the Performance Art Church (PeACh). She is proud of her work at Austin’s KOOP Community Radio which went on the air while she served on the Board of Directors as well as her radio show, the G-Spot, which featured the music of women, queer and trans people on Saturday afternoons.

After moving to New York, she made STRANGE POWERS: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields with Gail O’Hara, Paul Kloss and Sarah Devorkin. STRANGE POWERS premiered at SXSW as did her next film, WHO TOOK THE BOMP? Le Tigre On Tour, which opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. 

Her work has been shown at New York’s beloved Film Forum and over 30 film festivals worldwide including, SXSW, IDFA, Full Frame, and Hot Docs.

As a documentary producer, she worked on the six-part series, FLYING: Confessions of a Free Woman with director Jennifer Fox which screened at Sundance in 2007. She also co-produced HOTEL GRAMERCY PARK (Tribeca Film Festival, 2008) with acclaimed filmmaker Douglas Keeve (Unzipped) and producer Wendy Ettinger. In 2009, she produced the independent distribution for Pam Boll’s documentary, WHO DOES SHE THINKS SHE IS?  (PBS),  and in 2014, she produced Pam’s second film, A SMALL GOOD THING. 

Making a living in television has brought her through the strange worlds of 90 DAY FIANCE (TLC), ALASKAN BUSH PEOPLE (Discovery), AMISH: OUT OF ORDER (NatGeo) and TEEN MOM OG (MTV). By working closely with her cast to tell their stories, Teen Mom in particular, taught Kerthy how a harm reduction approach towards teen pregnancy, addiction, mental illness and suicide can change outcomes for young audiences.

In all of her projects, Kerthy has loved working with people in a creative way - especially young adults. She is interested in the ways that youth culture shapes our ethics and emotional outcomes, and bends her work towards positive change in everything she does.

 Paul Kloss

The work of New York cinematographer Paul Kloss has been featured in a diverse array of narrative film, television, documentary, music video and commercial projects since 1987.  An M.F.A. graduate in Film Production from the University of Texas in Austin, Paul’s first love is lighting -- whether naturalistic, dramatic, or  theatrical -- and his first priority in a project is to find the unique visual style of the story.  Many of Paul’s most successful projects were ones where he was involved with the directing or producing team from the beginning. His technical understanding of lighting, his ease with collaboration and his visual acumen, are all part of his love for film and television work.

 Sxip Shirey

Sxip Shirey is a composer/producer/curator/performer based in NYC. He is the composer and music director for the circus production LIMBO, which has toured internationally for six years including at the Sydney Opera House, London’s Southbank Center, and the Bogota International Theater Festival. Shirey is a guest lecturer at the Norwegian Theater Academy in Fredrickstad, Norway. Shirey has presented at TED 2008, is a 2011 United States Artist Fellow and has been artist-curator and artist-in-residence at National Sawdust, Brooklyn. Shirey composed the music for the Neil Gaiman film Statuesque and created music for the electronic book version of Shaun Tan’s Rules of Summer. Recent projects include a collaboration with composer Paola Prestini for the opera Stellet Licht at BANFF,  composition for choreographer Dan Safer of the Chekhov play The One You Feed at M.I.T. and compositions for Lisa D’Amour's Ocean Filibuster at American Repertory Theater Company in Cambridge. Earlier in his career, Shirey toured as the opening-act for Amanda Palmer's Dresden Dolls and as a member of Luminescent Orchestrii, Shirey has played Appalachian music for gypsies in Transylvania and gypsy music for Appalachians in West Virginia. 

 Faith Robinson

Faith Robinson is a Production Assistant from Brooklyn, New York. She has worked on countless productions, such as MR ROBOT with Rami Malek, SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT with Spike Lee and INSTINCT with Alan Cummings. Faith is a writer, actress and filmmaker and plans to see her stories on the big screen one day. 

Chrislin Hearn

Chrislin Hearn was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and is now based out of Richmond, Virginia. She is an illustrator, animator and designer with a BFA in communication arts, currently studying art direction at the VCU Brandcenter. 

As an artist, Chrislin is especially interested in visual storytelling. Recognizing that art has the ability to change the world around her, Chrislin is inspired to create work that speaks to important social and political issues as well as work that explores the subconscious and dream states. She is especially gifted at conveying complex, emotional ideas in succinct images. Though she is skilled at a variety of mediums and practices, her greatest strength as an artist is her conceptualization.