Meet the team behind the story.
Writers, Director, Lead Actor, Cinematographer, and Editor
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Director, Co-Writer
Jessie Lee Mills is an award-winning stage director, deviser, filmmaker, and intimacy director. She directs, adapts, and consults on film, theater, and opera in venues throughout the United States and internationally. She received her MFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University and is a John Wells Fellow. She is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Pomona College, where she is department chair.
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Lead Actor, Co-Writer
Meagan Prahl is a multi-talented professional hailing from Cleveland, Ohio. With years of experience as a voice, speech and dialect coach, an intimacy director and choreographer, an actor, and professor of theater at Loyola Marymount University, she has established herself as a master of her craft. Meagan's expertise lies in helping actors make bold choices both vocally and physically while finding their unique sound. By incorporating techniques from Knight Thompson Speech, Linklater, and Jones, she works diligently to discover the authenticity and individuality in each person she collaborates with.
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Cinematographer
Born and raised in France, Senda Bonnet graduated from the highly selective La FEMIS Cinema School of Paris with a concentration in cinematography. Senda was classically trained to shoot on film, but quickly adopted digital technology. Found of photography (her first love) she is passionate about telling authentic and compelling stories through films. Always willing to jump into new human adventures and cinematic experiments. She is one of the Rosco’s ambassadors. Her documentary work and feature films have taken her around the globe and her work has won awards and been shown at major film festivals in Europe and the U.S.
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Editor
Aziza Ngozi is the creation of a child of the sixties, and one of the first Peace Corps volunteers, who nurtured her in a creative environment. She grew up attending film festivals, theatre and dance performances and she was hooked. She went off to major in film at Northwestern University, located in the windy city of Chicago. Aziza placed in the top five of the My Neighborhood, My Chicago Short Film Contest for her experimental piece that explored her Northwestern University neighborhood. She was selected to participate in the American Pavilion Student Filmmaker Program at the Cannes Film Festival, where her short film The Cabrini Green Reconstruction, was featured in the Cannes Short Film Corner. Aziza was privileged to be selected as an intern at the world renowned documentary powerhouse Kartemquin (Hoop Dreams) where she learned the secrets of constructing a story.