Todd Chandler — Writer / Director / Editor / Producer
Todd Chandler is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores American rituals, landscapes, and systems of power. His films and installations have been featured at True/False, IDFA, Doclisboa, the Hammer Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and Mass MoCA. His documentary, Bulletproof, screened at over two dozen festivals worldwide, and was called “dreamlike and startling,” by the New York Times and “a quiet gut punch of a film,” by the Guardian.

His work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, Field of Vision, Jerome Foundation, International Documentary Association, NYSCA, Doc Society, and ITVS. A Guggenheim, Points North, and NYFA Fellow, Chandler has also received a Creative Capital award, the Hot Docs International Emerging Filmmaker award, and was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film.

As an artist he often works collaboratively. He has created drive-in theaters from salvaged materials, floated down the Mississippi and Hudson rivers on massive sculptural rafts, and organized multi-day music festivals in the wilds of Pennsylvania. He is the co-creator of the large-scale installation Empire Drive-In, and a founding member of the art-raft collective The Miss Rockaway Armada and the band Dark Dark Dark.

Chandler received a BA from Columbia University and an MFA in Integrated Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University.

Ava Berkofsky — Director of Photography / Producer
Ava Berkofsky, ASC (they/she) is an awarding-winning cinematographer and filmmaker, lensing films, television, documentaries and commercials. Ava was born in Wales and raised between London, and the mountains and cities of California.

Ava has been nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Cinematography three times (2019, 2020, 2022), as well as for an ASC Award for Achievement in Cinematography (2021) for HBO’s INSECURE. Additionally, Ava’s directing debut on the show was also nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Cinematography in 2020. Other awards include a nomination for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography for FREE IN DEED (2017).

Berkofsky’s award-winning feature credits include A24’s SHARE, directed by Pippa Bianco, which won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award at Sundance (2019) and was nominated for the Caméra d’Or at Cannes. FREE IN DEED, directed by Jake Mahaffy won the Horizons Award at the Venice Film Festival, among many other accolades. Other features include THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE, directed by Josephine Decker and produced by A24 & Apple, and The Front Room, directed by Sam and Max Eggars, also produced by A24.

Tianna Kennedy — Location Sound / Associate Producer
Tianna Kennedy is a farmer, educator, writer and project manager with extensive experience in creating important public access spaces in increasingly privatized spaces. She currently leads operations and expansion at Burnett Farms in Bovina Center, NY and is concurrently developing a New American Farmer Training program with the Center for Agriculture Development and Entrepreneurship. She is a founding member of the Empty Vessel Project, a center that fosters projects focused on Sustainable Living in Urban Landscapes. You can find her in the fields, on the water, in the desert or playing the cello.