Production Team


Creator and Producer

Creator and Producer

Karen Kocher is an Austin-based media producer who works in film and video and multimedia. For the past 10 years, she has been creating media work for digital platforms and studying the ways that the digital technology is expanding the documentary genre.
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Interface Design and Programming

Interface Design and Programming

Jenaro Diaz, John French, Matt Skoog

Producers and Writers

Producers and Writers

Monica Flores, Susanne Mason, Amy Bench, Monica Flores, Christopher Lucas and Paul Popiel

Primary Cinematography

Primary Cinematography

Amy Bench, Deborah Eve Lewis, Matthew Koshmrl and Ivy Chiu

Sound Engineer and Sound Mixing

Sound Engineer and Sound Mixing

Justin Hennard, John Brown, Josh Kinney

Cinematography

Cinematography

Beth Aavang, Russell Bush, Dee Ann Chamberlain, Lee Daniel, Lorenzo DePaolis, Laurie Dries, Gregg Eckhardt, Chithra Jeyaram, Jeshua Mauldin, Sarah Searight, Tom Taylor, Therese Tran, Jonathan Uhl, James Williams

Assistant Camera

Assistant Camera

Karinne Berstis, John Knudsen, Susanne Mason

Location Sound

Location Sound

Glenn Eanes, Justin Hennard, Alex Herrera, Dina Parkinson, Virginia Rowland, Sophia Yu

 Editors

Editors

Sandra Guardado, May Kuckro, Jeshua Mauldin, Sonia Melendez, Jesús Gerdel, Stephen Nonus, Emily Ricketson, Issac Rooks, Lance Seymour, Daniel Stuyck

Assistant Editors

Assistant Editors

Joshua Hilliard, Brittany DuFriend, Devin Matthews, Jesús Gerdel, Jeshua Mauldin, Jackie Kuenstler, Mariah Espinosa

Animation and Motion Graphics

Animation and Motion Graphics

Ben Bays, Anastasiya Bulavkina, Jeanne Stern, Glenn Dill

Research

Research

Brittany DuFriend. Bobby Hammelman, Chris Lucas, Caitlin Lundin

Production Assistance

Production Assistance

Beth Aavang, Nick Schatz, Keeley Steenson

Original Interface Prototype

Original Interface Prototype

Omid Laridjani

Archival Film and Video

Archival Film and Video

City of Austin Channel 6, Dee Ann Chamberlain , John Fiege, Gene Menger, Dolph Brisoce Center for American History University of Texas at Austin, Austin History Center/Austin Public Library, Pond 5, Save Our Springs Alliance and Grant Mitchell, Texas Archive of the Moving Image

Archival Stills

Archival Stills

Austin History Center, Doplh Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin, Marianne Dorman, James Hart, Earle Allen Henry, III, Jane Hume, Melinda McCuan, Jan and Jack Robinson, James Valentine

Voices

John Aielli, Bob Branson, Don Howard, Mary Gordon Spence

Website Designer/Programmer

Clint Pyle

Social, Fundraising and Events Team

Social, Fundraising and Events Team

Megan Gilbride, Hillary Pierce, Jackie Vay, Cat Tassini, Sarah Spurger, Josh DeFour

Project Advisors

Project Advisors

George Hume Cofer, Jr. (Community Advisor), Laurie Dries (Science Advisor), Clark Hancock (Advisor/ Evaluator), Joe Ramirez (Education Advisor), Judith Sims (Community Advisor), Dr. William Scott Swearingen (Advisor/ Scholar)