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Rising
Filmmakers
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MPI’s Rising Filmmakers Program
supports the career development of
promising freedom-oriented filmmakers
involved in marketable film projects.
MPI fellows receive financial support
for their work, as well as guidance
on scripting, production, marketing,
fundraising, and distribution. In return,
fellows help build the MPI network,
mentor MPI interns, and provide
technical assistance to other grantees.
Through the Rising Filmmakers
Program, MPI fellows have produced,
marketed, and distributed both
feature-length and short films. The
program is particularly well-suited for
filmmakers wishing to produce short
films for use as “calling cards” with
agents and producers. MPI fellows’
films have helped them secure jobs,
top representation, and meetings with
major producers.
Recognized as a force of innovation and
impact, this program helps promising
producers, directors, and screenwriters
launch their careers—all while building a
powerful network of talented, like-minded
filmmakers in Hollywood and beyond.
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Lucas Abel
LucasAbel.com
Lucas Abel is a freelance film and television editor, cinematographer, and
Emmy Award–nominated sound designer based in New York City. Working
at the forefront of docu-drama filmmaking, he has a strong ability to craft
documentary and non-fiction elements into a contextually relevant narrative
structure. His recent projects include the History Channel’s Emmy Award–
winning miniseries WWII in HD and Vietnam in HD. For his work on WWII in
HD: The Air War, he received a 2011 News & Documentary Emmy nomination
for Outstanding Music & Sound (Sound Design and Sound Mixing). Lucas
previously shot and edited MPI fellow Nicholas Tucker’s feature documentary
Do As I Say, which was made with MPI support.
For his fellowship, Lucas is working with Nicholas to re-edit a previous
project, An American Vampire in America, and release it as a web series.
Telling the story of a delusional young man who, claiming to be a vampire,
files a discrimination lawsuit against his small-town employer, the film
takes a satirical look at the culture of political correctness as well as the
economically destructive culture of frivolous litigation. An American Vampire
in America will be released on the Internet.
Ted & Courtney Balaker
KorchulaProductions.com
Ted and Courtney Balaker are the founders of Korchula Productions, a
company dedicated to making important ideas entertaining. Together they
have produced for ReasonTV, John Stossel, Drew Carey, Universal Pictures,
Katie Couric, and the Oprah Winfrey Network.
A founding member of ReasonTV, Ted is a co-creator of The Drew Carey
Project and producer of the “Nanny of the Month” series. He produced The
Conversation, an award-winning narrative short, and the first in a series
that dramatizes liberty-oriented concepts. Before joining Reason, Ted spent
five years producing for the John Stossel Unit at ABC Network News. He
graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Irvine, with
degrees in political science and English.
Courtney, an award-winning filmmaker, theater director, and television
producer, has directed off-Broadway plays in New York, including the New
York revival of Austin Pendleton’s Uncle Bob, which starred Joseph GordonLevitt (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises). In Los Angeles, she was vice
president of development at the production company Neo Art & Logic, where
she developed scripts for Pulse, Feast, and the American Pie sequels for
Universal. She was a producer on The Collector and on America in Primetime,
a four-hour PBS documentary series examining the creative process behind
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primetime’s most iconic TV shows. One of her short films, Cute Couple,
screened at a dozen film festivals and won the Audience Choice Award at both
the Jackson Hole Film Festival and Dances with Films. With Ted, she created
the short films The Conversation and Where’s My Bailout?, which Business
Week recognized as among the best of bailout humor. She holds a master’s
degree in theatre directing from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and
King’s College London.
MPI fellowship support is enabling Ted and Courtney to work on a narrative
web series about an interfering homeowners’ association that serves as an
analogy for intrusive government.
Kjell Boersma
MonsterSlayerProject.com
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Kjell Boersma is a freelance
filmmaker and animator from
Toronto, Ontario. He currently
lives and works in Gallup,
New Mexico. He has worked
in documentary production,
stop-motion animation, aerial
cinematography, and motion
graphics design. Since moving to
Gallup, Kjell has helped build a
locally-supported arts community
in order to invigorate local
businesses and improve the
quality of life in the area.
Kjell served as lead animator and
visual effects supervisor on the
2011 feature-length documentary
A People Uncounted, about the
Roma experience of the Holocaust,
which received a Producers’ Guild
of America nomination for Best
Documentary Feature. He also
produced the animated flashback
sequences for Paul Saultzman’s
2012 documentary The Last White
Knight, about the Civil Rights era
in the American South. Kjell has
done animation work on a number of
educational videos for the Institute for
The Moving
Picture Institute
strives to help
creatives like
myself achieve
their vision
of freedom
through film.
I take great
pride in being
an MPI fellow.
— Lucas Abel
01 Lucas Abel
02 (l to r) Ted Balaker, Dan Hayes, Courtney Balaker
03 Kjell Boersma
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Humane Studies’ Learn Liberty project, as well as video, animation, and motion
graphics consulting for the Atlas Network’s Lights, Camera, Liberty program.
An MPI fellowship is allowing Kjell to work on a retelling of the epic
Navajo story of the Hero Twins. Monster Slayer will trace correspondences
between the Navajo warrior code of conduct—which emphasizes strength,
independence, and self-reliance—and the foundational ideals of a free society.
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Bob Bowdon
TheCartelMovie.com
Bob Bowdon has been a television producer, reporter, and commentator for
the past fifteen years. His work has involved in-depth, on-camera interviews,
anchoring newscasts, producing nationally syndicated TV shows, and even
appearing in satirical news sketches for the Onion News Network. With
MPI support, he produced and released The Cartel, an award-winning
documentary about the nature and extent of corruption in public education.
Credited by USA Today with helping
make 2010 “the year of the education
documentary,” The Cartel has had a
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major impact on education reform
across the nation. As New Jersey
governor Chris Christie said, “When
I saw The Cartel, it helped mold for
me the final outlines of what I
wanted to do if I were lucky
enough to become governor.”
With MPI acting as a fiscal sponsor,
Bob launched Choice Media in 2011.
Choice Media is a nonprofit education
news service devoted to exposing
the scandal of America’s high-cost,
low-performing schools, while
highlighting educational successes
and pointing the way to a more
hopeful tomorrow.
When I saw
The Cartel, it
helped mold
for me the final
outlines of
what I wanted
to do if I were
lucky enough
to become
governor.
— NJ governor Chris Christie
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01 Bob Bowdon on MSNBC’s Morning Joe
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02 Bob Bowdon
05 Naomi Brockwell
03 The Cartel
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Nicholas Brennan
NicholasBrennan.com | AMarinesGuide.com | HardRockHavana.com
Nicholas Brennan is a New York–based documentary filmmaker and
journalist. An MPI fellowship supported his work on A Marine’s Guide to
Fishing, a short film about a young veteran’s return to the coast of Maine.
The film won Best Short Film at the 2011 GI Film Festival and was featured
in a front-page article in the New York Times in 2012.
His MPI fellowship also supported his work on Hard Rock Havana, a short
documentary about a Cuban heavy metal band, which premiered at the 2010
Tribeca Film Festival and has since screened around the world. Nicholas
won the prestigious Columbus/Vague film production award and received
an MPI grant to develop Hard Rock Havana into a full-length feature film.
It is currently in post-production. Born and raised in New England, he is a
graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and has worked for ABC News,
the New York Times, Vice magazine, and HBO.
Naomi Brockwell
RainsworthProductions.com
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Naomi Brockwell is an actress, filmmaker, and opera singer. Originally from
Western Australia, she currently resides in New York City. She has produced
several short films as CEO and founder of Rainsworth Productions, which
she manages with MPI fellow Andrew Heaton. In 2012, she worked as coexecutive producer and casting producer for the indie feature Audition. She
recently starred in Cap South, MPI fellow Rob Raffety’s comedic web series
about the daily lives of young professionals in Washington, D.C. In 2013,
Naomi participated in MPI’s screenwriting workshop.
Naomi is using MPI fellowship support to write her first feature film, Skirting
Authority, which deals with the nanny state’s penchant for over-regulation.
She and Andrew are also working on an MPI-supported documentary about
the Principality of Hutt River, a micro-nation that seceded from Australia
over draconian wheat quotas.
Naomi had her off-Broadway debut in 2012 as a lead in the musical Man
with a Load of Mischief, and was recently cast in the New York Lyric Opera’s
production of Suor Angelica. She is continuing her opera training in New
York, studying with Ruth Falcon and Beth Roberts.
Naomi holds a bachelor’s in classical music and acting, with a minor in
business. She also holds an advanced diploma in musical theatre and a
Certificate I in musical theatre.
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Clay Broga & Dan Hayes
HonorFlightTheMovie.com | FreethinkMedia.com
Clay Broga and Dan Hayes founded Freethink Media, a film production
company and creative agency, with MPI fellowship support. Fellowship funding
also enabled them to make their first feature film, Honor Flight, which Dan
directed and Clay produced. The trailer for Honor Flight has gained 4.8 million
views online. In August 2012, they premiered Honor Flight in Miller Park
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(the Milwaukee Brewers’ baseball stadium) and broke the Guinness World
Record for the largest film screening ever with 28,442 people in attendance.
The film went on to screen in theaters in Los Angeles, New York City, and
Washington, D.C., and enjoyed a congressional screening on Capitol Hill in
December 2012. The following year, Honor Flight won best documentary at
the GI Film Festival and screened in select theaters in over three dozen states
across the country. The film also recently screened for former president George
H.W. Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush. Honor Flight is now available on
iTunes, Amazon, and several video-on-demand outlets.
In 2011, Dan and Clay produced a series of web videos with congressman
Paul Ryan. Regarding the debut video with Ryan, political analyst Matt Lewis
wrote, “I can’t recall another time when a policy debate this significant has
incorporated video this effectively.” Fast Company magazine has also praised
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Freethink’s production quality and innovation.
Sean Buttimer
ThePilgrimFilm.com
Sean Buttimer is a narrative filmmaker based in New York City. A former U.S.
Marine, Sean studied film at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)
in Savannah, Georgia. His award-winning film Threnody was among the first
to screen at the inaugural Anthem Libertarian Film Festival in 2011. The film
also appeared in festivals around the globe, including in Atlanta, Ireland, and
South Africa. An MPI fellowship supported his work on The Pilgrim, a short
film about the dangers of excessive government regulation. The film, which
seeks to expose the lunacy associated with an Environmental Protection
Agency ruling that declares carbon dioxide to be a pollutant, screened at the
2013 Anthem Libertarian Film Festival and NewFilmmakers New York Film
Festival. In 2013, Sean participated in MPI’s screenwriting workshop.
01 Dan Hayes (left) and Clay Broga (right)
02 Miller Park screening of Honor Flight
03 Sean Buttimer
04 Rich Camp
05 Dorian Electra on set
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Rich Camp
Rich Camp has produced, written, and directed two low-budget feature
films, Lumberjacking and Gotta Find Barry. The latter won Best Comedy
at the Southern New England Independent Film Festival in 2011. He
has also worked as a stand-up comedian in New York, Los Angeles, and
New England, and studied and
performed improv and sketch at
the Upright Citizen’s Brigade.
A former MPI intern, Rich worked
in development at Solar Pictures
in Los Angeles in 2012. Following
his internship, he worked as a
professional editor on the Comedy
Central web series The Super Late
Morning Show and the Cooking
Channel’s Road Trip with G. Garvin,
among others.
MPI helped me
get in the door,
and helped
me navigate
an industry
that otherwise
would’ve been
intimidating.
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An MPI fellowship is supporting
Rich’s work on his comedic
web series, A Guy Going Crazy.
— Rich Camp
Combining narrative and humor, the
series illustrates the importance of
motivation and individual work ethic by lampooning the culture of idleness,
excuse-making, and dependency prevalent among young people today. In
2013, Rich participated in MPI’s screenwriting workshop.
Rich graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2009
with a bachelor’s in film and television production.
Dorian Electra
Dorian Electra is a singer, songwriter, filmmaker, and visual artist best known
for her music videos about economics. Her work celebrates human creativity
through music, dancing, and exciting visuals. With her hip, youthful, energetic
approach, she aims to get young people excited about understanding freemarket economics and its role in the complex world around us.
Dorian’s most popular video, I’m in Love with Friedrich Hayek, became an
unexpected hit in 2010 when it drew over 100,000 views on YouTube and was
featured in prominent locations such as the home page of the National Review
website. She also produced the rap music videos We Got It 4 Cheap, about
supply and demand, and Roll with the Flow, which explores the definition of
wealth and the problems of trying to centrally plan an economy.
An MPI fellowship supported Dorian’s pop music video, FA$T CA$H:
Easy Credit & the Economic Crash, about the dangers of central banks’
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expansionary monetary policy. It has achieved over 22,000 views on YouTube.
With MPI support, she is currently producing a music video that views the
history of American market crashes through the lens of free-market economic
theory. Dorian is pursuing a liberal arts degree at Shimer College, a Great
Books school in Chicago.
Toby Fell-Holden
Toby Fell-Holden is a British writer–director whose short films have screened at
festivals around the world. He earned a bachelor’s in philosophy, politics, and
economics from Oxford University, and relocated to New York in 2008 to pursue
his master’s in film at Columbia University. He has been awarded scholarships
from the Institute for Humane Studies and a grant from the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences. He recently taught screenwriting to undergraduates
at Columbia and is developing several feature film scripts. In 2013, Toby
participated in MPI’s screenwriting workshop.
MPI fellowship support enabled Toby to write, direct, and produce a short
film called Little Shadow. Portraying a boy’s efforts to emulate and then
escape the influence of his tyrannical military father, this short film celebrates
individuality, independence, and freedom. It premiered at Palm Springs
International ShortFest in June 2013, the same venue where his short film
Nova Scotia premiered in 2010, and has been nominated for the Casting
Society of America’s Artios Award. Since there is no Oscar for casting, this is
the top award in that field. Toby’s future filmmaking plans center on a series
of narrative and documentary features about the perils of big government.
Anthony L. Fisher
AnthonyLFisher.com | SidewalkTrafficMovie.com
Anthony L. Fisher is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, and voiceover artist.
He currently works as a producer for ReasonTV, where he writes, produces,
edits, and performs voiceover on web-based documentaries. His work on
civil liberties, the drug war, and Occupy Wall Street has been featured on Fox
News, CNN, MSNBC, and numerous news and political websites.
A graduate of Emerson College, Anthony has been awarded a fellowship
from the Institute for Humane Studies and has been a quarter-finalist for
the Academy’s prestigious Nicholl Fellowship. He has sold short films for
distribution on the Sundance Channel, Comedy Central, Shorts International,
and AtomTV. His short films and screenplays have won awards at more than a
dozen film festivals around the world.
Anthony’s micro-budget comedy, Rent Control, was scripted with MPI fellowship
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I’ve received
excellent
guidance and
support for the
promotion of my
video from MPI.
I’ve also been
able to meet so
many talented
people who
belong to the
MPI family!
— Dorian Electra, creator, FA$T CA$H:
Easy Credit & the Economic Crash
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Support from MPI has taken
[my] project from a 90-page
screenplay, and brought me to the
precipice of pre-production....It
remains my intention to win hearts
and minds to the ideals of liberty
through the magic of comedy, and
the alchemy of filmmaking. MPI
deserves a great deal of credit for
facilitating the beginning of this
filmmaking odyssey.
— Anthony Fisher
support. He is also working on an epic dramatic comedy set in Berlin in 1989, on
the day the Berlin Wall came down. At present, he is in production on his feature
film Sidewalk Traffic, starring Johnny Hopkins, Erin Darke, Samm Levine,
Heather Matarazzo, Dave Hill, Kurt Loder, Tom Shillue, Tibor Feldman, and Paul
Borghese. He lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters.
Michael Galinsky & Suki Hawley
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BattleforBrooklyn.com | Rumur.com
Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley have been making films together for two
01 Anthony Fisher
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03 Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley
decades. Since 2000, they have worked closely with partner David Beilinson
on a series of documentaries that deal with media, power, and government.
Their award-winning documentary Battle for Brooklyn was produced
with MPI support. An acclaimed, accessible look at the poorly understood
phenomenon of eminent domain abuse, this film examines how residents and
business owners fought the city’s efforts to condemn their property to make
way for the Atlantic Yards project, a massive plan to build sixteen skyscrapers
and a basketball arena at the heart of the borough. Praised by the Wall Street
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Journal, Salon.com, National Public Radio, and more, Battle for Brooklyn is
a crossover film that is enabling Americans to transcend partisan differences
and find common cause in protecting property rights. In November 2011, the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences included Battle for Brooklyn
among the final 15 documentaries shortlisted for a Best Documentary
Oscar nomination. In 2012, Michael was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim
Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Ray Griggs
RGEntertainment.com | TheWindInTheWillowsTheMovie.net
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Ray Griggs founded his production company, RG Entertainment, in
1995. He has worked with some of the most talented people in the industry,
including Oscar-winning cinematographers Russell Carpenter (Titanic,
Charlie’s Angels), Richard Taylor (The Lord of the Rings trilogy), and the
legendary poster artist Drew Struzen (Indiana Jones films, Star Wars films,
Back to the Future films).
In 2010, Ray released I Want Your Money, a documentary about why we should
embrace small government and fiscal responsibility. Featuring interviews
with Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, the late Steve Jobs, the late Andrew
Breitbart, and others, the film included 30 minutes of political animation
centered on comically rendered figures of Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan.
MPI provided fellowship support to finish the film, and later to market it. I
Want Your Money was released in theaters nationwide and received praise
from the New York Times. With MPI support, Ray promoted and distributed
DVDs of the film to ensure that it reached the widest possible audience.
Ray is currently making a live-action rendition of the children’s classic, The
Wind in the Willows. He plans to complete the film in 2015. He is working on
this project with screenwriter Bill Marsilii (Déjà Vu, 20,000 Leagues Under
the Sea) and Weta Digital, the New Zealand-based visual effects company
founded by Oscar winners Richard Taylor and Peter Jackson (Lord of the
Rings, King Kong).
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02 Andrew Heaton
Andrew Heaton
03 Laura Waters Hinson
MightyHeaton.com
04 Kasey Kirby
Andrew Heaton is a stand-up comedian, writer, and political satirist
living in New York City. Originally from Oklahoma, he previously lived in
Washington, D.C., while working as a staffer for the U.S. Congress, and in
Scotland as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar while earning his master’s
in international politics. He was named NYC’s Greatest New Comedian
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in 2013 by the Broadway Comedy Club, and has performed standup in
Australia, in Germany, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, and
throughout the United States. He is a regular contributor to The Freeman,
Barron’s Magazine, Brightest Young Things, and ClotureClub.com. His
MPI fellowship project is based on Prince of the Outback, a piece he wrote
for Reason magazine about a farmer who declared independence from the
Australian federal government over a wheat quota dispute and founded his
own micro-nation. Andrew recently starred in Cap South, MPI fellow Rob
Raffety’s comedic web series about the daily lives of young political
staffers in Washington, D.C. His first book, From the Monkey House:
Fixing Politics Through Wit &
Cartoons, was published in July
2013. It will be followed by Frank
Got Abducted, a humorous novel
about alien abductions.
Andrew holds a bachelor’s in
history and world religions from
the University of Oklahoma, and
a master’s in international and
European politics from the
University of Edinburgh. In 2013,
Andrew participated in MPI’s
screenwriting workshop.
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Laura Waters Hinson
& Kasey Kirby
DogDaysTheMovie.com
AsWeForgiveMovie.com
MamaRwanda.com
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Laura Waters Hinson and
Kasey Kirby have been making
documentaries together since 2006,
when Kasey photographed Laura’s
debut feature documentary As We
Forgive. The film, about Rwanda’s
reconciliation and restoration
movement, won the 2008 student
Academy Award for best documentary,
as well as a Cinema for Peace award
in Berlin. As We Forgive made its
broadcast premiere on PBS stations in
the U.S. and was presented at university,
government, and religious institutions
We were drawn
into this story
because it was
about a largely
unknown
population —
hotdog vendors
.... however....It
became a story
of the crisis of
the American
Dream and how
perseverance
is still a key
ingredient in
making a better
life for oneself.
— Laura Waters Hinson,
co-director–co-producer, Dog Days
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nationwide, as well as at the U.S. Congress and the U.N. The film reached more
than 100,000 viewers in Rwanda via a mobile cinema initiative funded by the
John Templeton Foundation.
In 2011, Laura and Kasey teamed up again to produce Mama Rwanda, a
documentary about Rwandan mothers becoming entrepreneurs to pull their
families and communities out of poverty.
Laura and Kasey are currently working on Dog Days, their first feature
documentary as co-directors. Sponsored by MPI, the film tells the story of
an unemployed dreamer and a veteran hotdog vendor who take a leap of
faith to keep the American Dream alive amidst a sinking street vending
industry in Washington, D.C. MPI worked closely with Laura and Kasey
to finalize the story arc for Dog Days, and MPI is now partnering with them
on marketing, fundraising, and distribution. Dog Days premiered at the 2013
Austin Film Festival.
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A filmmaker and photographer based in Washington, D.C., Laura is the
founder of Image Bearer Pictures and is currently a media studies lecturer at
the Catholic University of America. Kasey has photographed documentary
projects around the world as a freelancer for clients such as National
Geographic, the U.N. Foundation, and more. He has credits on a number of
freedom-oriented documentaries, including the 2012 film Occupy Unmasked.
Both hold MFAs in filmmaking from American University.
Ben Howe
MisterSmithMedia.com
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03 Brian Iglesias
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Ben Howe is the creative director of Mister Smith Media, a production
company he founded after receiving national media attention for his political
videos. Through his company, he has produced web ads for the Heritage
Foundation, Citizens United, FreedomWorks, and other groups in the freedom
movement. His videos have been viewed millions of times and featured in the
Washington Post, the LA Times, National Review, and the Weekly Standard,
as well as on Fox News and CNN. A contributing writer for RedState.com and
Breitbart.com, he recently became editorial director of RedState TV.
With MPI support, Ben has begun production on Dark Kingdom, a short film
that will explore human rights atrocities in North Korea. The film will seek
to answer the question of how a civilized world deals with a nation run by
an authoritarian dynasty. As North Korea continues to sink deeper into
self-imposed isolation, reaching out to the rest of the world only to issue
threats of nuclear annihilation, Ben hopes to shine some light on the dark
kingdom—how it operates, how it survives, and what must be done to help a
people so impoverished that they harvest grass for food. The film will provoke
uncomfortable and at times divisive questions about the dangerous nature
of international interference and will question the humanity of policies of
containment. Ben lives in South Carolina with his wife and four children.
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FrozenChosin.com
Brian Iglesias is president and CEO of Veterans Expeditionary Media, an
independent transmedia production and distribution company. A combatdecorated Iraq War veteran and a member of the Producers Guild of America,
he holds a degree in film and media arts from Temple University.
Chosin, Brian’s directorial debut, is a documentary feature about one of the
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most decorated—and least remembered—battles in American history: the
Korean War’s Chosin Reservoir campaign. The film won Best Documentary
Feature at the 2010 GI Film Festival and the 2010 Dixie Film Festival.
With help from MPI, Chosin was released in theaters in New York and Los
Angeles in September 2010. The film has had over 250 community screenings
in the U.S. and South Korea, and has been praised by the New York Times,
CNN, the Village Voice, the Los Angeles Times, former secretary of state Colin
Powell, and more. A DVD is now for sale, and the film premiered on paytelevision in 2011.
Brian co-produces the New York City Veterans Day Parade, which airs on
Fox. He is currently executive producing 17 Days of Winter, a 3D feature film
about the Chosin campaign, and producing an animated version of the battle
entitled Chosin: Hold the Line.
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J. M. Jennings is a screenwriter, novelist, blogger, and short story writer based
in Wyoming. He is an associate editor for Dark Moon Eclipse, a monthly short
story anthology, and the editor of Overrun: A Zombie Short Story Anthology
(2012, Last House Standing Publications). He recently wrote two films for
MPI fellow Naomi Brockwell’s production company Rainsworth Productions,
including Down With The Man, which tells the story of a man living in the
midst of a dystopian alternative future in which the hippie subculture of the
1960s did not die out, but rather morphed over time into a totalitarian regime.
Sponsored by MPI, the film examines the notion that any ideology, even one
with peaceful origins, can devolve into totalitarianism if power is unchecked.
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Carmen Jimenez & Chris Boyce
CBoyce.com
Carmen Jimenez and Chris Boyce have diverse professional backgrounds but
a shared passion for films that motivate audiences to discover their unrealized
capacity as individuals. Born in Seville, Spain, Carmen began her filmmaking
career as a producer and audiovisual content developer. After college, she
moved to Madrid to join the international sales team at Sogepaq. Awarded
a scholarship by la Caixa, she moved to New York in 2008 to start her
Masters in Fine Arts in screenwriting and directing at Columbia University,
which she earned in May 2013. Since 2011, she has taught screenwriting at
Columbia University and she currently works as a video producer at EdLab,
an institution that is developing a new model of schooling to improve an
educational organization’s ability to focus on individual needs.
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Born in Toronto, Chris worked in marketing and finance at a billion-dollar retail
organization in Canada before enrolling in the Masters in Fine Arts film program
at Columbia in 2011. He worked with fellow Columbia MFA student and MPI
fellow Toby Fell-Holden on the latter’s short film, Little Shadow. As a writer and
producer, Chris has developed projects that promote freedom through stimulation
rather than doctrine, including collaborations with other MPI fellows.
Chris and Carmen’s forthcoming narrative short, Oasis, produced with MPI
support, tells the story of an immigrant who stands up to her abusive boss in
order to free a young girl from the entrapment of sex traffickers. Oasis asks
its audience to consider the meaning of liberty as well as how government
unduly restricts our freedom.
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Ross Kenyon
Ross Kenyon, a native of the American Southwest, is the principal of his
video and media production company, Curious Sonoran Productions. He
has been involved with filmmaking since high school, and for the past year
has been producing video segments and studying political philosophy at the
Freedom Center of the University of Arizona. Ross is currently co-editing two
anthologies for print publication with liberty-oriented organizations. He is
devoting his MPI fellowship to pre-production work on a short documentary
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about recent controversies over free cities in Honduras and Guatemala.
Among numerous other projects, he filmed three forthcoming Learn Liberty
videos for the Institute for Humane Studies, assisted with the production of
MPI fellow Dorian Electra’s forthcoming music video about the history of
American market crises, and recently shot a short dark comedy in Arizona.
In 2013, Ross participated in MPI’s screenwriting workshop.
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Bert & Jennifer Klein
PupsOfLiberty.com
Bert and Jennifer Klein are co-directors of Pups of Liberty, an award-winning
short film about the Boston Tea Party that seeks to attract young children
to the study of American history.
Jennifer’s award-winning student films attracted the attention of major
Hollywood studios, which landed her a position at Warner Bros. early in her
career. She has worked on many exciting projects at Warner Bros., Dreamworks,
Disney, and Universal, including: The Iron Giant, The Emperor’s New Groove,
The Road to El Dorado, Where the Wild Things Are, and Curious George.
After years of studio experience, Jennifer turned her talents toward directing
and producing independent shorts and features. She co-produced the awardwinning short The Chestnut Tree, which was executive produced by Don
Hahn (producer of Disney’s The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast). She
also produced the award-winning feature-length documentary Candyman:
The David Klein Story, and is working on another feature documentary about
legendary puppeteer Bob Baker and his marionette theater.
Bert has been working as a professional animator, animation supervisor, and
director for the last twenty years. He has worked on such notable films as The
Lion King, The Lord of the Rings,
The Simpsons Movie, The Princess
and the Frog, Winnie the Pooh,
and Wreck-It Ralph. He has taught
animation at the California Institute
of the Arts and his work has been
nominated for three prestigious
Annie Awards for Best Short by
ASIFA (Association Internationale
du Film d’Animation) Hollywood.
MPI support enabled Jennifer
to turn Pups of Liberty into a
classroom-ready episode. The
film is available to hundreds
of thousands of teachers and
millions of students through the
Free to Choose Network. With his
fellowship, Bert is transforming
the existing Pups of Liberty short
film into a franchise, advancing the
storyline and characters beyond
the Revolutionary War era to create
an ongoing series of films that will
educate children about different
epochs of American history.
I have found in
MPI guidance,
support, and
advice that I
have not found
anywhere else.
To know that
they recognize
what I am trying to
do is tremendously
reassuring and
helps me to
continue on this
course.
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David LaRocca, Ph.D
DavidLaRocca.org
David LaRocca, Ph.D, is a filmmaker
as well as Writer-in-Residence in the
F. L. Allen Room at the New York
Public Library. His MPI-sponsored
film, Brunello Cucinelli: A New
Philosophy of Clothes, shot on location
in New York and Italy, focuses on
Italian clothier Brunello Cucinelli’s
use of the Western humanist tradition
as a guide for his eponymous
international fashion business and
the life of his company town in
Umbria. David based his film in part
on research conducted for his 50-page
essay, “A New Philosophy of Clothes:
Brunello Cucinelli’s Neohumanistic
Business Ethics.”
A luxury
Italian fashion
designer uses
philosophy
to improve
the lives of
his workers.
MPI’s visionary
sponsorship
provides the
conditions for
the possibility
of asking how
he does it—
support that
is as rare and
brave as it
sounds.
David is the editor of Estimating
Emerson: An Anthology of Criticism
from Carlyle to Cavell. He has
authored numerous articles on
aesthetic theory, American philosophy,
autobiography, and film, which have
appeared in Epoché, Afterimage,
Liminalities, Transactions, Film
and Philosophy, the Midwest
Quarterly, the Journal of Aesthetics
and Art Criticism, and the Journal
of Aesthetic Education. He has
contributed essays to The Coen
— David LaRocca, director–photographer,
Brothers (updated edition) and Spike
Brunello Cucinelli: A New Philosophy
Lee volumes in the Philosophy of
of Clothes
Popular Culture series, has edited The
Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman, and is
currently editing a new volume, The Philosophy of War Films, for the series. His
latest book, Emerson’s English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor,
was published in September 2013. He made documentary films in the Liberty
Fund’s Intellectual Portrait Series with Academy Award–nominated director
William Jersey and master cinematographer Robert Elfstrom. David studied
philosophy, film, rhetoric, and religion at SUNY-Buffalo, UC Berkeley,
Vanderbilt, and Harvard, and attended Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School.
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James & Mary Mackenzie
JMackProject.com
James and Mary Mackenzie, a brother-and-sister filmmaking team, are
currently working on a short documentary, sponsored by MPI, about the rising
cost of higher education in America and its effect on indebted graduates.
The film, which James is directing and Mary is producing, seeks to humanize
abstract debates over education policy and the student debt crisis.
A graduate of the University of Dallas, James won acclaim directing theater in
Dallas before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a Masters in Fine Arts in film
production at Loyola Marymount University. A former MPI intern, he worked
at Circle Up Entertainment in 2012, mentored by director–producer–actress
Meredith Scott Lynn (Legally Blonde, A Night at the Roxbury). In 2013, James
participated in MPI’s screenwriting workshop. Mary, a senior at the University
of Dallas, has held internships at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni
and at the Charles Koch Institute as part of the higher education team. She
is a recipient of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute Undergraduate Honors
Fellowship. The two are working together on James’ MFA thesis film about the
culture of 1980s teenage love.
Evan Coyne Maloney
Indoctrinate-U.com | Brain-Terminal.com
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Evan Coyne Maloney is an award-winning documentary filmmaker based in
New York City. Recently, he produced Hating Breitbart, the story of one man
with a website who upended the traditional press and found himself the target
of a media feeding frenzy. With exclusive, behind-the-scenes access, Evan and
fellow filmmakers Andrew Marcus and Maura Flynn followed Breitbart from
the rise of the Tea Party through the fall of Anthony Weiner. Hating Breitbart
sold out in theaters in St. Louis and Washington, D.C., in fall 2012 and was
re-released in select theaters across the country the following spring.
MPI support allowed Evan to make his first feature-length film,
Indoctrinate U, which takes a humorous look at the state of free speech and
free thought on American campuses. When the film premiered in 2007 at the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the
sold-out crowd gave it a standing ovation. Since then, the film has become a
campus cult classic, screening thousands of times at hundreds of campuses
around the country. For several years it was one of the Documentary
Channel’s best-selling films.
Evan also wrote and narrated The Machine, a short video about how publicsector unions corrupt our political system. Produced by MPI in association
with ReasonTV, The Machine was released during the 2012 Democratic
National Convention and coincided with the Chicago teachers’ strike. It
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immediately went viral on YouTube,
achieving over 30,000 views in its
first 24 hours online and sparking
a heated debate about the role of
unions in political campaigns.
Evan’s work has been covered by the
Wall Street Journal, the New York
Times, the Washington Times, and
the London Times, among others. He
has also appeared on CNN, C-SPAN,
Fox News Channel, and more.
Kaleb Matson
InceptionHouse.com
Kaleb Matson, a former financial
advisor, founded the media
production company Inception
House, through which he produces
pro-liberty media for think tanks
and allied organizations. Kaleb used
MPI fellowship support to produce a
short film called Tax, Borrow, Print,
which illustrates how none of the
three possible methods of funding
America’s debt crisis is feasible in
the long term. The film aims to bring
clarity to our fiscal crisis, succinctly
arguing that the United States
needs radical spending cuts and
downsizing of government if it is to
have a sustainable future.
By definition,
independent
filmmakers lack
access to the
infrastructure
needed to take
an idea and turn
it into a finished
product. What
MPI is great at, is
finding talented
people with
interesting ideas,
and then helping
them execute
successfully.
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Rob Montz
JucheStrong.com
Rob Montz is a professional writer based in Washington, D.C. He used his
MPI fellowship to write, direct, and produce his first film, Juche Strong,
a short documentary that offers a critical examination of North Korea’s
history, economic policies, and propaganda apparatus. The film has enjoyed
screenings in select theaters in Washington, D.C., and New York City, at the
Cato Institute, at the Seoul Foreign Correspondents’ Club, and elsewhere,
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and has been featured on BBC World News and in The Economist. Juche
Strong also screened at the 2013 North Korean Human Rights Film Festival.
Originally from Los Angeles, Rob graduated magna cum laude from Brown
University, where he majored in philosophy. His writing has been published in
the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
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John Papola is an award-winning director and producer who has worked
in entertainment for the past decade with major brands including Spike,
Nickelodeon, and MTV, as well as leading agencies such as Crispin Porter,
Razorfish, and JWT. He is the co-founder of Emergent Order, a premier media
company dedicated in part to the exploration of the values and virtues of a
free and peaceful society.
John co-wrote, produced, and directed Fear the Boom and Bust and Fight
of the Century. These two short videos have become global sensations with
almost 7 million combined views on YouTube, and they are used in classrooms
worldwide. John is also the co-creator, along with economist Russ Roberts,
of EconStories, a groundbreaking media brand dedicated to re-imagining
economics education through creative storytelling. MPI fellowship support
was crucial to EconStories’ launch.
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John’s recent efforts include the viral “Look Closer” mixed-media campaign
for the Video Game Awards. His Back to the Future viral campaign featuring
Michael J. Fox for Spike’s Scream Awards garnered over 2.5 million views in
three days.
John is a graduate of Penn State University’s film program. He’s only had one
formal economics class, in high school, and is otherwise entirely self-taught.
Rob Raffety
CapSouthTheSeries.com | RobRaffety.com
Rob Raffety is an independent filmmaker from Arlington, Virginia. His work
has screened at multiple venues across the country, including the Washington
D.C. Independent Film Festival, the Boston Comedy and Film Festival, and
D.C. Shorts, where his documentary Funniest Fed was awarded the prize
for Best Local Film. In addition to running his own production company,
Tragedy Plus Time, Rob manages policy research for the Mercatus Center
at George Mason University, and is an adjunct professor of law and public
policy at GMU. He is also a volunteer citizenship instructor for Arlington
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County, helping immigrants prepare
for the U.S. Citizenship Exam. Rob
is a veteran of multiple political
campaigns and worked previously
on Capitol Hill and in a federal
regulatory agency. He earned his
BA in economics and government
from West Virginia Wesleyan
College and his JD/MPA from
Syracuse University.
An MPI fellowship supported Rob’s
work on Cap South, a Washington,
D.C.–based trans-media web series
that explores the ever-blurring
lines between image and substance
in government and parodies the
inherent absurdities of modern
democracy. Cap South was released
on YouTube in July 2013, and has
been praised by the Washington
Times, the Washington Post, Politico,
The Hill, Roll Call, and more.
Even as the show
pokes fun at the
absurdities of
modern democracy,
it does so in a
subtle, clever way.
Cap South lets
viewers chuckle at
scenes of political
dysfunction –
without feeling like
they’re watching
an overtly partisan
advertisement.
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Cyrus Saidi
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Cyrus Saidi is a first time director–producer and has been a self-starter
since he began his entrepreneurial career in the music industry at age 19.
He launched his first company in 1998, which went on to produce western
Canada’s largest electronic music concerts. Since then Cyrus has produced
events and tours in over 33 countries. Today he is director of a music
management firm, with an impressive track record of international clients.
Cyrus’s real passion is filmmaking, and he is currently transitioning into the film
world. He has completed his first feature film screenplay, which was optioned by
a team of Hollywood producers in late 2012, and has several other screenplays
in development. His first film, L1TTL3 BR0TH3R (read: Little Brother), is a
political thriller with a sci-fi twist. It is based on a fictional Nobel Peace Prize
nominee who, armed with an unbreakable determination to battle tyranny, and
fueled by haunted memories of a dark past, challenges the status quo. The film is
a collaboration with creative partner Gautam Pinto and is co-written, produced,
and directed by Cyrus. L1TTL3 BR0TH3R won Grand Prize at the 2013 Anthem
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Film Festival, in addition to winning Best Short Narrative and the Audience
Choice award. MPI is partnering with Cyrus on the film’s distribution.
Tim Sessler
TimSessler.com
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Tim Sessler is a cinematographer and documentary filmmaker. Originally
from Germany, he is now based in New York City. His work has reached
audiences worldwide. His short films Bending Sounds, Forecast, and Drift
achieved national and international recognition through popular outlets such
as the Huffington Post, Yahoo!, Gothamist, and Gizmodo.
With MPI support, Tim, along with his wife and collaborator Autumn
Brookmire, spent three months traveling around the U.S. filming It’s Your
Country, a short documentary film series that captures the philosophies
and opinions Americans hold about their country. Among his current projects
are a two-hour History Channel special about Lee Harvey Oswald and a
feature-length documentary film that follows high-school seniors from Ballou
High School in Washington, D.C., to Ghana.
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Duncan Scott is a film and video director based in Santa Monica, California.
He has over 150 productions to his credit and has won four Emmy Awards.
Duncan was an assistant director on feature films such as Deathtrap,
Nighthawks, and Zelig, working alongside Woody Allen and Sidney Lumet.
He collaborated with Ayn Rand, Hank Holzer, and Erika Holzer to restore
the film classic, We The Living, based on Rand’s first novel. His company now
owns and distributes the film. He also wrote a stage adaptation of Rand’s
futuristic novel, Anthem.
Duncan directs the nonprofit Objectivist History Project, which he founded
in 2004. The OHP conducts videotaped interviews with many of the pioneers
who helped launch the objectivist and libertarian movements.
In 2012, Duncan was part of the screenwriting team for Atlas Shrugged, Part
II, the second installment of the three-part film series based on Rand’s epic
novel. He recently wrote the screenplay for Atlas Shrugged, Part III, to be
released in 2014.
In partnership with MPI, Duncan is currently producing and directing
the feature-length documentary The Most Dangerous Woman in America,
which is the first major film to examine the cultural impact and controversy
generated by Ayn Rand’s philosophy of liberty.
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Nicholas Tucker
DoAsISayMovie.com
Nicholas Tucker began his feature filmmaking career at the height of the
digital video revolution. He made a name for himself as an innovator with
micro-budget improv filmmaking, completing and selling his first feature film
before graduating from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. His
2009 hit documentary Do As I Say, made with MPI support and based on
Peter Schweizer’s bestselling book, is a wry, humorous exposé of respected
leaders who privately embrace free-market ideas while publicly discouraging
others from doing the same.
In 2012, Nicholas co-founded Passing Lane Films, a multimedia and film
production company with offices in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. His
multimedia work has been featured by the New York Times, WIRED magazine,
BettyConfidential, IEEE Spectrum magazine, as well as many other online
publications. His recent adaptation of Leonard Read’s I, Pencil won Best Short
Documentary and the Audience Choice Award at the 2013 Anthem Film Festival.
At present, Nicholas is developing several feature film projects and hopes to
begin filming his next feature-length documentary, Fear, Inc. He is also directing
MPI fellow Lucas Abel’s new web series, An American Vampire in America. In
2013, Nicholas participated in MPI’s screenwriting workshop. Currently, MPI is
partnering with Nicholas on several film projects about free-market economics.
Chandler Tuttle
FinallyEqual.com
Chandler Tuttle graduated in 2005
from NYU’s Tisch School of the
Arts film program. He spent two
years working as assistant to the
president at Focus Features, the
award-winning film studio behind
Brokeback Mountain, Lost in
Translation, and Eternal Sunshine
of the Spotless Mind. In 2006,
Chandler worked with MPI fellow
Evan Coyne Maloney to produce
and release Indoctrinate U, which
takes a humorous look at the state
of free speech and free thought on
American campuses. The following
year, an MPI fellowship allowed
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MPI provided
me with the
kind of funding,
time, and network support
that dreams are
made of. My
dream is now
closer than ever.
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him to produce 2081, an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron,”
which tells the story of a dystopian future in which government has enforced
equality by outlawing exceptional intelligence and talent. Starring Armie
Hammer (The Social Network, J. Edgar, The Lone Ranger), the film premiered
as the opening night short at the Seattle International Film Festival in 2009,
where it received a three-minute standing ovation. A classroom edition
available through Free to Choose has received rave reviews and has been
requested by over 16,000 teachers.
Landon Van Soest
GoodFortuneFilm.com | TransientPictures.com
Landon Van Soest is the director and producer of Good Fortune, an Emmy
Award–winning documentary about two Kenyans battling large-scale foreign
aid projects that bring them more harm than benefit. He also directed Walking
the Line, a film about “vigilantes” along the U.S.–Mexico border, which
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received several awards for production and promoting human rights. His work
has been viewed by millions around the world and received numerous awards
including an Emmy Award, an Overseas Press Club Award, a WITNESS
Award, and an IFP Award, as well as a Fulbright Fellowship and a fellowship
from the Sundance Institute.
Along with his business partner Jeremy Levine, Landon owns and operates
Transient Pictures, a full service production company that produces
original content for broadcasters such as PBS, the Sundance Channel, the
National Geographic Channel, and TLC. It has also produced for nonprofit
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organizations Working Films, the Dramatists’ Guild, and Lincoln Center,
and for-profit companies including The Economist magazine, Nike, and the
Brooklyn Brewery. Landon is also a founder of the Brooklyn Filmmakers
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Collective, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering a vibrant
filmmaking community in Brooklyn, New York.
Landon is currently producing the feature narrative film FiveStar by awardwinning director Keith Miller and developing several documentary and
narrative projects on topics ranging from Mexican drug cartels to Canadian
jewel thieves, and from blind lovers to visual and performing artists. In 2013,
Landon participated in MPI’s screenwriting workshop.
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MPI fellows have earned top recognition and awards over the course of their careers, including Emmy Awards, a Guinness
World Record, a spot on the Oscar shortlist for Best Documentary, and more. Their work has been viewed by millions on
the Internet, in theaters, on television, and in classrooms, and has been praised by major media outlets. Fellows have also
shaped national public policy debates by producing multimedia content for freedom-oriented organizations.
Rising Filmmakers
Number of fellows MPI has
supported since our founding
Little Shadow, Toby Fell-Holden
110,000
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Honor Flight (28,442 in attendance), Clay Broga & Dan Hayes
As We Forgive,
Laura Waters Hinson
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WWII in HD: The Air War,
Lucas Abel
Views The Machine achieved
in its first few days online
Number of views the Honor Flight trailer achieved in 2011–12
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Number of combined views that MPI fellow John Papola’s videos
Fear the Boom and Bust and Fight of the Century have achieved
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MPI support fosters the fellows’ career development, providing them with crucial financial support as well as
the opportunity to network and pool resources, to maximize the impact of their work. MPI also mentors fellows
through critical phases of their film projects, including scripting, production, marketing, and distribution.
Number of students that MPI films and
fellows’ films reach nationwide each year
1.5
Number of teachers that have
requested 2081 to date on izzit.org
Battle For Brooklyn, Michael Galinsky
MILLION
16,463
118,600,000
Good Fortune, Landon Van Soest
MPI Rising Filmmakers Program
Number of homes where MPI films and fellows’
films are available through video on demand
10,000+
Number of teachers that requested Pups
of Liberty in its first 6 months on izzit.org
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Thor Halvorssen, MPI founder
Staff
Rob Pfaltzgraff, President
Erin O’Connor, Vice President
Maurice Black, Vice President
Stacie Fulcher, Program Director
Adam Guillette, Director of Development & Outreach
Lana Harfoush, Director of Communications & Marketing
Board
David Thayer, Chairman
Michael J. Friedman
Kevin Harper
Marc Leader
Rebekah Mercer
Rob Pfaltzgraff
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