Producer/Writer: Serge Bakalian

Director/Writer: Aurora Meneghello

Executive Producer :David L. Brown

Director of Photography: Caio Simbula

Editing: Staci De Gagne

Animator: Kalin Stanojev

Music: Ben Flanagan

Assistant Director: Gianluca Corinaldesi

Associate Producer: Kevin Sullivan, Charlotte von Hemert

Camera: Caio Simbula, Mark Smith, Vreje Bakalian, Aurora Meneghello, Maria Victoria Ponce

Researcher: Jessica Zenger

Archival Footage: Crystal Mason

Technical Advisor: Mark Arellano

Director of Community Outreach: Kyle McCarthy

Community Outreach: Emma Maack, Edgar Velazquez

Interns: Allison Keeley, Meredith Pierce,Ben Sigrist

Serge Bakalian (producer/writer)
is a San Francisco-based filmmaker, writer and theatre manager. Trained as a chemist, Serge worked for two major NGOs, the F.A.O. of the United Nations and Greenpeace International. He’s been a founding member of organizations such as the Glendale Greens, the Cedre Foundation and the Green Alliance.

Serge is currently the Managing Director of Golden Thread Productions, a theater company dedicated to exploring the cultures and identities of the Middle East.

Serge has worked on a wide range of issues and campaigns, notably on defending the biodiversity of the world’s food supply against genetic modification. His work and activism have led him to many parts of the world, most extensively throughout the Middle East and Latin America. He holds a B.S. in Chemistry and a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics.
www.serged.com

Aurora Meneghello (director/writer)
is an award winning photographer and a filmmaker. Her interest in the power of images to convey thoughts and feelings started at an early age and has fueled her passion for documentary filmmaking. She has worked on fiction and non-fiction projects as researcher, director of photography, camera operator and gaffer. Her background in art and photography and her work as an educator provide her with both aesthetic sensibility and the skills to explain facts clearly and concisely.
Originally from Italy, she is based in San Francisco, California. Her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles and San Francisco where she has shown at Intersection for the Arts, the Mission Cultural Center for
Latino Arts and Galeria de la Raza.
www.aurorameneghello.com

Ben Flanagan
(music) is an acclaimed San Francisco musician. Co-fronting
California post-punk rock act The Actual he joined up with Scott
Weiland’s Soft Drive Records and toured nationally and internationally
supporting Velvet Revolver on festivals such as the Van’s Warped
Tour.  After the group disbanded in 2007, he signed with San
Francisco’s Talking House Records under the name The Trophy Fire with
long time collaborator Jamie McGoldrick. The duo has since released
their first record, titled A Lifetime in the Middle of the Ocean,
which has received local and national recognition as a truly beautiful
and imaginative indie-pop record.