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SACHI CUNNINGHAM, Co-Director, Co-Producer

Sachi Cunningham is an Emmy and Webby award-winning journalist and filmmaker. In 2008 she was recruited to join the first video team at the Los Angeles Times, where she covered stories from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to the historic El Nino big wave season of 2010. Prior to the Times Cunningham worked on the staff of PBS’ FRONTLINE and FRONTLINE/World, where she produced the shows’ first multimedia online video report from the India-Pakistan “line of control.” She was also instrumental in the launch of FRONTLINE's online video and photo series “Rough Cuts” and “Flash Point.”

Sachi Cunningham is an Emmy and Webby award-winning journalist and filmmaker. In 2008 she was recruited to join the first video team at the Los Angeles Times, where she covered national and international stories from the 2008 election to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon. Prior to the Times Cunningham worked on the staff of PBS’ FRONTLINE and FRONTLINE/World, where she produced the shows’ first multimedia video report from the India-Pakistan “line of control.” She was also instrumental in the launch of FRONTLINE’s online video and photo series Rough Cuts and Flash Point.

Online resume
http://sachicunningham.com

CHANDLER EVANS, Co-Director, Co-Producer

Chandler Evans has written for shows on MTV, CBS and CW, including America’s Next Top Model and The Nanny. His work includes national commercial spots for such companies as Procter & Gamble, Disney, Direct TV, Hamilton Beach and Starbucks. He also wrote Visions of Everest, a feature documentary about Erik Weinhenmayer, the only blind man to summit Mount Everest. Most recently Evans wrote and directed a web series for Disney Interactive. The recipient of Telly Awards, both as a writer and a director, Evans was a 2010 quarter-finalist in the Nichols Fellow Screenwriting competition.

Chandler received his B.A. from Brown University.

Online resume
http://www.vayabobo.com

ANN ROSE, Executive Producer

Ann Rose is currently working as a freelance Executive Producer with BBC America to develop programs under the channel's new original programming initiative. Until April 2011, Ann Rose served as the executive producer of original programming at the Sundance Channel. In her 7 years at the channel she commissioned and shepherded award winning and critically acclaimed non-fiction series and feature documentaries including Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, Be Good Johnny Weir, Beautiful Darling, Guest of Cindy Sherman, Garbage Warrior and Prodigal Sons. She has facilitated international co-production partnerships with Arte France, ZDF Arte Germany, BBC, CBC, and ITVS international, and has participated in international documentary conferences and pitching forums including IDFA, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Hot Docs, Silverdocs, Sunny Side of the Doc and Good Pitch as both a commissioner and a producer. She is currently developing and producing both television and film projects with multiple international partners.