Producer/Director Regan Brashear has a BA in American Studies and a MA in Social Documentation (Documentary Film) from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Originally from Virginia, Regan has been working on labor, disability, youth, LGBT, race and environmental issues for over 20 years now through documentary film, union organizing, community forums, teen theater and many other creative tools. Regan also serves as Co-Producer for THE GROVE, a new film about the National AIDS Memorial, and as Community Engagement Coordinator for the Academy Award-shortlisted film, UNDER OUR SKIN. Both films aired across the country on PBS stations in 2011. Her interest in disability studies, which eventually led to the making of FIXED, started in 1997, after a car accident which began an ongoing journey with fibromyalgia and chronic pain. She is a co-founder and core member of the Making Change Media Collective in Oakland, CA, which produces videos for non-profits, labor unions and other economic, environmental and social justice causes. Contact Regan.
Editors: Josh Peterson & Regan Brashear
Josh Peterson is a freelance editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he has been cutting documentaries, corporate pieces and independent features since 1993. He was nominated for a national Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Editing in 2009 for his work on Soldiers of Conscience. He also edited The Rape of Europa, which was nominated for an Emmy for Best Historical Programming and short-listed for a Best Documentary Academy Award. His clients include Apple, Lucasfilm, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and the Kenwood Group. Josh’s work has appeared on PBS, ABC, National Geographic Channel, Sci-Fi Channel, at U.S. and international film festivals and in theatrical release. He graduated from Harvard in 1991 with an honors degree in History. His latest film, Blood Makes the Green Grass Grow, which he wrote, directed and edited, has just been released this fall.
Camera: Duncan Kenworthy, Jamie LeJeune, Florencia Marchetti & Bruce Petschek
Additional camera: Scottee Angel, Beth Pielert, Jennifer Redfearn, Bjorn Ulfsson & Tiffany Worthington
Location Sound: Jeffrey Andersen & Lauretta Molitor
Post-production Supervisor: Jamie LeJeune
Technical Support & Research: Scott LaMorte
Production Assistants:
Karla Claudio Betancourt is a multimedia artist from San Juan, Puerto Rico, who recently graduated in Film/New Genres at the San Francisco Art Institute. She works primarily with documentary and experimental video, animation, and multi-media installations. Her work revolves around media literacy, marginalized histories, colonized communities, culture jamming, public interventions, and other practices set on challenging corporate media. She’s an excellent cook, likes to learn about herbalism and capoeira on the side, and is a faithful believer of the occult.
Jessica Fuh joined the FIXED team in July 2011. This fall, she will be entering her last year at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is double majoring in Film Studies and Economics. Though born in the States, Jessica grew up in Singapore. She is back in the States for college and excited to be diving into the world of documentary film.
Jackie Grieff is an aspiring digital film editor in the Bay Area working on her BS in Digital Filmmaking and Video Production at The Art Institute of California – San Francisco. She is a Final Cut Pro and After Effects Tutor at The Art Institute as well as the department’s Peer Mentor. She loves Star Trek, South Park, the Ender Series, and Pokemon. See her work @ vimeo.com/jackieg