Jonathan VanBallenberghe - Director, Cinematographer, Co-editor

Jonathan is a documentary filmmaker raised in Juneau, Alaska, and now based in Tucson, Arizona. His films have screened at festivals including SXSW, Tribeca (Special Jury Mention for Best Documentary Short), the American Conservation Film Festival, and the Arizona International Film Festival (three-time winner of Best of Arizona).  He has received Gold Addy Awards for cinematography, and grants from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Tucson Pima Arts Council. In 2018, he received a grant from Vision Maker Media for ALMOST AN ISLAND. In 2018-19, he was a Fellow of the Hanson FilmTV Institute at the University of Arizona.

 
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Sharon Wahl - Producer

Sharon Wahl is a documentary film producer and award-winning fiction writer. In 2005, she and Jonathan VanBallenberghe started Open Lens Productions, a production company that produces long and short form commercial projects, FullDome 360 videos, stock footage, and documentaries. Sharon has produced six independent documentaries. In 2003, she was writer-in-residence at Penn State. In 2018-19, as a producer, she was a Fellow of the Hanson FilmTV Institute at the University of Arizona. She is currently finishing a novel and a collection of short stories.

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Jacob Bricca, A.C.E. - Co-editor

Jacob is an award-winning Tucson-based film editor, director, and producer. A member of the American Cinema Editors, he has edited over a dozen feature films, including the international theatrical hit LOST IN LA MANCHA, the New Yorker Films theatrical release CON ARTIST, the Independent Lens Audience Award Winner JIMMY SCOTT: IF YOU ONLY KNEW, and the 2016 Sundance Special Jury Prize winner THE BAD KIDS. His directing credits include PURE, which screened at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival, and FINDING TATANKA, which premiered at the 2014 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona's School of Theatre, Film & Television, where he teaches documentary filmmaking and editing, and is the author of Documentary Editing: Principles & Practice.

 
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Victoria Westover - Executive Producer

A native of Washington, D.C., Victoria has worked in non-profit arts management for 30 years. 2004-2020 she served as the Director of the Hanson FilmTV Institute at The University of Arizona. She is the Founding Producer of Independent Eye (Maryland Public Television) and has produced short and feature-length independent films, including the documentary APACHE 8, which was broadcast on public television stations nationally. She is currently producing and directing the documentary FINAL VOWS. Victoria has served on numerous non-profit boards, committees, and panels, for organizations including the AFI in Washington, D.C., and the HBO/NALIP Documentary Awards. She is the founder and co-director of Tucson Cine Mexico, the first and longest-running film festival in the United States to showcase contemporary Mexican cinema.