OUR TEAM

DIRECTOR/ EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Carmen Elena Mitchell is the creator of the award-winning, critically acclaimed web-series The Real Girl’s Guide To Everything Else (profiled on NPR). She has shot and edited over 40 documentary shorts highlighting advancements in aging services, including Joyful Hearts: Uniting A Community in Song about the therapeutic power of music for Alzheimer’s patients, a profile on the first same sex couple to move into Wesley Palms Retirement Community, as well as videos exploring the subjects of ageism and “creativity under quarantine.” Podcast credits include The Ethic and Video Podcast (producer) and The Tunnel of Truth: True Report on Gender and Race in the Reading Room (editor). Carmen was a recipient of the MTV/Pocket Books Short Fiction Award and a semi-finalist for narrative feature at Cinequest and Visionfest.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Luis Arturo Reyes is an executive producer, writer and partner at Butcher Bird Studios. His work straddles the divide between traditional filmmaking and the new media landscape, pioneering content in livestream, VR, and interactive media, while also driving creative and production for innovative and impactful projects in TV, narrative film, and documentaries. Notable projects include original television pilots for comedians Brian Regan and Reggie Watts respectively; Above and Beyond, a video-rich interactive experience at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum; Next Level with Lexus, a Twitch influencer game show; Geeked Week, a five-day promotional event for Netflix; and Untethered: My Passion, a short documentary series featuring people driven to excellence in their field. Luis has also produced many other short documentaries for institutions such as Covenant House, Descanso Gardens, Pasadena Playhouse, among many others. In 2018 he edited and helped produce Until They’re Gone, a documentary about landmine removal in Cambodia, directed by Christopher Lockett. He is currently producing Lockett’s next documentary The West Without Water. Luis also pushes the envelope in live performance as the creative force behind the long-running anthology series True Crime in Los Angeles at The Three Clubs in Hollywood.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Steven Calcote Is an award-winning writer/director/producer who creates ground-breaking film, television, commercial, and web projects for such clients as Airbnb, National Geographic, Intel, AT&T, ILM, Adidas, and BuzzFeed. He recently completed Orbital Redux, the world’s first real-time interactive live streaming sci-fi action drama, for Legendary Digital.

Other recent work includes a wide variety of live and technology-driven filmmaking. He directed Airbnb’s 12-hour live stream celebration of the National Parks 100th anniversary, featuring feeds across the U.S. from sunrise to sunset. A year later, he reunited with the Airbnb team to direct a new series in partnership with National Geographic called “Live From,” which featured hours of both live and documentary content.

Other directing work includes high energy comedy television pilot The 5th Hour for Nickelodeon; hit music video Hey L.A., which Entertainment Weekly called, “…an infectious sun-drenched ode to the City of Angeles….”; and a feature-length documentary about China’s Jewish community, Minyan in Kaifeng, narrated by Leonard Nimoy.

His work has been recognized by the Telly Awards, International Academy of Web TV, Spikes Asia, and LA Weekly Theater Awards. He just completed a term on the executive committee of the Television Academy’s Interactive Media Peer Group.

FILMMAKER

Gabriel Mitchell was a Chicago poet, song writer, artist and filmmaker. His short film Crazy Talk premieres at the Folk Art Museum in NYC 2023. Learn more about Gabriel’s life and work at philmworx.com.

TRAILER EDITOR

Jack Gleason has editing on a range of productions from animated series and documentaries to PSAs and trailers.