About The Film

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Visual Artist

  Upon graduation from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Charmaine Wheatley has been primarily based in New York since 1997. Her work is held in international museum and library collections; including New York’s Museum of Modern Art. She has received numerous awards and done many Artist In Residencies; most recently at the University of Rochester - Golisano Children’s Hospital, University of Buffalo in New York as well, a lifetime AIR of The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, MA. Her program of work involves sitting with people from stigmatised communities like Opioid Use Disorder, Mental Health and HIV capturing humanising likenesses and fragments of conversation with watercolour on paper. Portraits of individuals in aggregate a portrait of a community and place.

Director, Producer, Editor

A 3-Time NY Emmy® award winning filmmaker and owner of EPIC10 Films, Don is drawn to independent projects that inspire through shining a light on trailblazing and inspirational figures that embody compassion and inclusion. He served as editor on The Last Dalai Lama?, a feature documentary directed by Mickey Lemle that was released theatrically across North America in 2017. He produced and directed the feature documentary Signs of the Time, which investigates the origins of baseball hand signals and their links to deaf culture. Narrated by Richard Dreyfuss, the film was featured in the New York Times, and aired internationally on National Public Television and NHK networks, earning multiple awards including the NY Emmy® Award for Outstanding Documentary. In 2019 he received a second NY Emmy® for co-producing Linda Moroney’s feature documentary, Turn The Page, focusing on volunteers that help incarcerated parents record bedtime stories to their children on audiocassette while in jail. In 2020, Don received a third NY Emmy® for directing the short documentary Don’t Define Me, that follows artist Charmaine Wheatley painting portraits of those affected by HIV.

Producer

An Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, programmer, and educator. Linda produced and directed Election Day 2016, a short documentary shown at the Inaugural Meet the Press Film Festival with the American Film Institute in 2017 and licensed by NBC. Her Emmy Award-winning film Turn The Page (2019) explores the fractured relationship between incarcerated parents and their children through the lens of a literacy program called Storybook aired nationally across public television. Linda served as a producer on The Last Dalai Lama? (2017) and associate producer of Ram Dass Fierce Grace, which Newsweek named one of the five best non-fiction films of 2002 and aired nationally on PBS.

Director of Photography

An award winning cinematographer specializing in documentary and commercial work.  Over the course of his 25 year career in the production industry, Denver has developed a unique approach to visual storytelling, combining a strong journalistic sensibility with an eye for emotive composition and top level production value.  A partial list of clients includes National Geographic, BBC, NBC, ESPN, Outdoor Channel, Red Bull Media House, Warren Miller Entertainment, Citibank, Toyota, Jeep, Samsung, Quicksilver, The North Face, Patagonia, New Balance, IFIT, and Tauck World Discovery.  Projects have taken him throughout the United States and around the globe. 

 Musician

A 5th generation eastern Kentuckian teaching Appalachian folk songs, dances, and stories for secondary students in the region. Randy began his musical journey by searching some of the old-time banjo pickers of eastern Kentucky such as Lee Boy Sexton, Coy Morton, Roscoe Holcomb, Austin Miller, and Marcus Howard in the late 1970s. Randy continued as a multi-instrumentalist, playing guitar, banjo, dulcimer, and concertina along with several rhythm instruments like the djemba drum, spoons, bones, and jaw harp.  Most of his focus has been on the old-time banjo, playing period banjos from West Africa to Appalachia. By invitation from the Smithsonian in Washington DC, he played on the national mall with musicians from Africa to Scotland to Appalachia illustrating the journey of folk music in the southern Appalachians.  He has played in cultural exchanges: with Latino culture in San Antonio, native culture in Alaska, Puerto Rican culture in the Bronx, NY. Randy has also played for students at the University of Rome, Rome, Italy and the Celtic festival on the Isle of Man, United Kingdom. 

 Musician

Gabriel grew up in the rich old-time/folk music tradition of the  Appalachian Mountains in southeastern Kentucky where he learned to play the fiddle by rote at the age of 8. The skills that he developed at this time acted as a platform to begin studying jazz at the age of 15.  Gabriel went on to earn a Bachelors in Jazz Guitar Performance from UNCG where he studied under Greg Hyslop. During his time there, he had the  privilege of working with musicians from all over North Carolina, typically in a jazz setting. Groups and musicians he has worked with  include Zen Poets, The Aaron Matson Nonet, Brandon Lee, Chad Eby, Steve  Haines, Lage Lund and Matt Wilson. He currently resides in Greensboro where he continues to work as a freelance gigging jazz guitarist and  composer. In his free time, he loves to read, watch films, spend quality  time with friends and family, and write music.