ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS 

Andrew Shea (Director, Producer, Editor) is an award-winning director, producer, and screenwriter who has enjoyed success in film, television, and theatre. His films have screened at several of the most prestigious and selective film festivals in the world: the Cannes Film Festival Critics Week, the Sundance Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, DOC NYC, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the Austin Film Festival, and SXSW. Andrew is a professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.  

Melissa Shea (Director, Producer, Editor) is a creative and versatile filmmaker who worked in commercials in Los Angeles before making the switch to feature films. Her narrative and documentary work has screened at major film festivals including Cannes, Sundance, SXSW, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), DOC NYC, Austin, and Tribeca. Her creative partnership with co-director Andrew Shea began at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where they collaborated on the short film Take My Breath Away, which was invited to screen in the International Critics’ Week section at the Cannes Film Festival.

Margaret Byrne (Cinematographer) directed, produced, and shot Any Given Day (America Reframed 2022), a longitudinal documentary following four Chicagoans navigating the complexities of living with mental illness. She directed and produced Raising Bertie (POV 2017), an intimate chronicle of three rural North Carolina teens whose chance for success at an alternative school is threatened when it closes down. She is in production on a documentary exposing the largest police frame up scandal in US history. She has worked as a cinematographer on over a dozen films including The Big Payback (2022), Surge (2020), Waging Change (2019), Generation Wealth (2018), All the Queen's Horses (2017), and American Promise (2014). She teaches documentary cinematography at Columbia College Chicago and is the founder of Beti Films, a film collective based in Chicago.

Shuling Yong (Sound Recordist) is a Singapore-born, Chicago-based documentary filmmaker, sound mixer, and cinematographer with a passion for social change. She has worked on films like Becoming (2020, dir. Nadia Hallgren), Radical Grace (2015, dir. Rebecca Parrish), In the Game (2015, dir. Maria Finitzo), The Feeling of Being Watched (dir. Assia Boundaoui), America To Me (2018, dir. Steve James), and In Time To Come (2017, dir. Tan Pin Pin). Her first feature-length documentary, Unteachable, won the Audience Choice Award at the Singapore International Film Festival.

CREDITS 

Directed, Produced, and Edited by

Andrew Shea & Melissa Shea

Director of Photography

Margaret Byrne

Digital Intermediate Colorist

Brandon Thomas

Music Supervisor

Sean Mulligan 

Music Editor

Lorena Perez Batista 

Supervising Sound Editor

Brad Engleking 

Production Coordinators

Rachel Rozycki, Johnaé Strong 

Post-Production Services

TBD Post - Austin 

Additional Cinematography:

Joshua Jackson

Erik Ljung,

Justin Nakao-Haider

Carlos Javier Ortiz

Jeffrey Perlman

Jason Rhee

Eric Seals

Kevin Shaw

Ines Sommer

Mitchell Wenkus 

Additional Sound Recording

Robert Aguilar

Jacob Brown

Alan Chow

Hayden Jackson

Baili Martin