TFI New Media Fund 2014
Forget everything you think you know about climate change.
Engagement Lead
Katie McKenna has more than a decade of experience in documentary and impact production on projects including Why Poverty, The Take, and the award-winning humanitarian documentary series Inside Disaster: Haiti.
Impact Producer
Alex is a filmmaker and producer who works in impact strategy and culture -lead social change on projects such as Big hART’s Ngapartji Ngapartji.She also undertook a Churchill Fellowship looking at models of social change documentary engagement.
Impact Producer
Michael is an artist, activist, and organizer. He was a central figure in the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Sandy movements, co-director of the participatory documentary Sandy Storyline, and creator of the documentary project.
Director
Avi Lewis’ award-winning first documentary feature, The Take (2004), followed Argentina’s movement of worker-run businesses. The film, that premiered at the Venice Biennale, was released theatrically across North America and Europe, and screened in occupied factories around the world.
Producer
Joslyn Barnes is a writer and producer. Barnes has executive produced or produced since co-founding Louverture Films with partners Danny Glover, Susan Rockefeller and Bertha Foundation, are TROUBLE THE WATER, BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975, and CONCERNING VIOLENCE.
Technologist
Mike is a creative technologist and partner at interactive studio Helios Design Labs.