• Heather Quinlan, Producer & Director

    Heather got her start as Web Producer for Discovery, TLC, and the Science Channel. Her first feature-length documentary, “If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the New York Accent,” was featured in “The New Yorker,” “The New York Times,” the BBC, WSJ, NPR’s “Morning Edition,” and “The Brian Lehrer Show.” It screened in film festivals around the country, at the Library of Congress, and streamed on Apple TV+, Amazon Prime, and Roku. ​

    Heather followed with ”SPOKE: A Short Film About NYC Bikes” which screened at the Williamsburg Film Festival, and “Swagger: The Rise and Fall of the ‘86 Mets,” produced by Michael Weithorn, creator of “King of Queens.” Heather was also Location Scout for HBO. Most recently, Heather was​ Production Manager for “An American River,” which premiered at the Montclair Film Festival.​

  • Caroline DeVoe, Co-Producer

    Caroline is an educator and award-winning filmmaker whose work has appeared on PBS, Discovery, and NatGeo. She was co-producer of “Mariachi High,” a documentary that premiered on PBS' acclaimed National Summer Arts Festival series, and her first documentary was PBS’, “Nkosi: A Voice of Africa's AIDS Orphans.” As a producer for the award-winning multimedia production company Talking Eyes Media, DeVoe helped create healthcare-focused projects including “The Inner Wounds of War” for the Discovery Channel and Firestorm”, a one-hour PBS documentary that was nominated for a regional Emmy Award.​

    An active community volunteer and educator, ​Caroline was Media Director for Harlem Children's Zone's after-school program, TRUCE. DeVoe received a BA in Digital Filmmaking with a Minor in Africana Studies from Ramapo College, and an MA, Technology Specialist from Teachers College, Columbia University.

  • Donald Thoms, Consulting Producer

    Donald Thoms is the former Vice President of Programming for PBS, overseeing the visual arts, dance, music and performance programming, as well as independent films. He is also an award-winning producer and former VP of Production and Talent Development for Discovery Communications.

  • Anthony Q. Artis, Director of Photography

    Anthony is an Adjunct Professor of Film and TV at N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts, where he’s taught documentary lighting, camera, and audio production for more than 20 years. Artis is also the author of the bestselling “Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide”, “The Shut Up and Shoot Freelance Video Guide”, and a featured video instructor on LinkedIn Learning.

  • Crockett Doob, Editor

    Crockett edited the Academy Award-nominated ”Beasts of the Southern Wild” and the critically-acclaimed ”Ghostbox Cowboy.” His work has aired on NBC, PBS, HBO, VH1, and played in movie theaters internationally.

  • Peggy King Jorde, Consultant

    Peggy King Jorde is a Cultural Projects Consultant combining more than 30 years of experience in planning, architecture, public art, and historic preservation projects in New York City and beyond. King Jorde served under three NYC mayors, including the Honorable David N. Dinkins providing comprehensive oversight of all capital construction projects specific to New York's cultural landmarks, public art, and art museums. Her range of support spanned project planning, development, management & design.

    Today King Jorde lends considerable focus to consulting for developers, working with the community and civic-based preservation efforts, and lecturing aimed at building awareness and building advocacy for cultural heritage in marginalized communities in the US and abroad. She has consulted government and community stakeholders on a development project in the British Overseas Territory of St. Helena in the South Atlantic. The project is believed to be 'the largest burial ground of enslaved Africans direct from the Middle Passage.' King Jorde is a film participant and producer in the British documentary about the project, entitled "A Story of Bones," which premiered at Tribeca in 2022,