Maisie Crow
Director/Cinematographer/Producer
Maisie Crow is a documentary filmmaker and photojournalist based in Texas. Her films have aired on HBO and Showtime. She is a director and producer of Zurawski v Texas.
Her 2021 documentary At the Ready premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and can now be seen on MAX. In 2018, her documentary, Jackson, received a News and Documentary Emmy award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary. The film won 15 film festival awards for best documentary and audience favorite.
In 2022, she was part of This American Life’s reporting team on the Peabody-winning episode The Pink House at the Center of the World. Her short films The Last Clinic and A Life Alone were both nominated for News and Documentary Emmy awards. Her work has also been recognized by the Overseas Press Club, American Society of Magazine Editors, Pictures of the Year International and World Press Photo.
Maisie has taught photojournalism and video storytelling as an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.
In 2019, Maisie and her husband took the helm of The Big Bend Sentinel and Presidio International newspapers in Far West Texas, building a community gathering space around the publications to help bolster readership and revenue.
Abbie Perrault
Director/Producer
Abbie Perrault is a documentary filmmaker and journalist based in Chicago, Illinois. She is a director and producer of the feature documentary Zurawski v Texas. Previously she produced At The Ready, which premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition at Sundance Film Festival in 2021 and streams on MAX. She has associate produced the documentary shorts An Abortion in Mississippi and Reproductive Rights Road Trip for The Intercept and was the impact producer on the Emmy-award winning documentary Jackson, which premiered on Showtime in 2016.
Her previous work as managing editor of The Big Bend Sentinel and Presidio International newspapers in Marfa, Texas has been recognized by the Texas Press Association for general excellence and her reporting received awards for outstanding feature writing and outstanding news writing.
Her film work has been supported by the IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund, The Gotham, Catapult Film Fund, Ford Foundation, XTR, and the Austin Film Society, and she was a 2019 fellow in New Orleans Film Society's Southern Producers Lab.
Amy Flanagan
Producer
Amy has executive produced and produced Emmy-nominated and BAFTA and Royal Television Society-award winning documentaries. Her credits include The Cranes Call, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and BAFTA-winning films Bedlam, Feltham Sings, Grenfell: the Untold Story and My Son the Jihadi. Before serving as Co-Creative Director and SVP of Unscripted at HiddenLight Productions, she was Head of the BBC Documentary Unit, across all BBC Studios documentary, history and arts output. For five years, she was also a trustee of the Grierson Trust.
Blye Faust
Producer
Blye is an Academy and Emmy Award-winning producer. Her credits include Spotlight, which was awarded Best Motion Picture and Best Original Screenplay at the 2016 Academy Awards, and went on to gross nearly $100 million at the worldwide box office during its release. Past projects include the smash hit Amazon docuseries Shiny Happy People (also a Critics’ Choice nominee); feature documentary The Grab from Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media; Amazon docuseries LuLaRich; Emmy Award-winning and Peabody nominee Belly of the Beast; Emmy and Critic’s Choice Award nominee Rewind; season four of Wondery’s hit podcast series Dr. Death; and Wall Street Journal podcast Bad Bets: The Unraveling of Trevor Milton, a 2023 Loeb Award finalist.
Siobhan Sinnerton
Producer
Siobhan is a BAFTA, Peabody and Emmy-winning producer and executive producer with 20 years’ experience in US and UK television working across many genres of factual television, from investigative journalism to popular features.
For 10 years she was commissioning editor for current affairs and documentary at Channel 4. Documentaries include The Hunt for Jihadi John, Lyra, In Her Hands, and the Cannes-winning and Oscar-nominated For Sama.
Cori Shepherd
Producer
Cori is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning producer. She recently produced the hit Amazon docuseries Shiny Happy People. Cori also recently produced season four of Wondery’s hit podcast series Dr. Death. Her other projects include LuLaRich, a hit Amazon docuseries; Wall Street Journal podcast Bad Bets: The Unraveling of Trevor Milton, a 2023 Loeb Award finalist; Warm Bodies, a $116m global box office hit for Lionsgate; and Open Heart, a 2013 Oscar-nominated documentary that premiered on HBO. Her feature documentary Bending the Arc, which premiered at Sundance and on Netflix, was critically acclaimed as "a stunning documentary...a glorious and uplifting film." Additionally, she executive-produced Collisions, a 2016 Emmy winner for Outstanding New Approaches: Documentary, that premiered at Sundance. Cori began her career as a television development executive and executive producer of scripted, nonfiction, and music programming.
Austin Reedy
Editor
Austin Reedy is an editor based in Austin, Texas. He’s worked on multiple award winning documentary films, including Keith Maitland’s Emmy award winning film Tower, Maisie Crow’s At The Ready and Karim Amer’s Defiant. He has also worked on several television series––most recently on the HBO documentary series The Vow. His work has been shown at Sundance, TIFF, and Telluride among others. He strives to edit films that ground viewers in the shared human experience while looking for creative ways to share stories that surprise and challenge the audience.
Alex Cavalier
Production Manager
Alex has spent the last 10 years working in Production Management across multiple genres. She has worked at various production companies including Blast! Films, The Garden & BBC Studios, working on a large number of UK and US high-end prime time award winning documentaries. She is the lead production manager at HiddenLight, working across several feature docs on their current slate.
Osei Essed
Original Music
Osei Essed is a multi-platform artist, whose recent film credits include Crater (Disney+), Unveiled: Surviving La Luz Del Mundo (HBO), The Lincoln Project (Showtime), and Katrina Babies (HBO). Alongside his film work, Essed tours and performs with the Brooklyn-based bands Wolf Suit and Big Hands Rhythm and Blues Band.
Emily Farrell
Post Production Coordinator
Emily is the post-production coordinator for Zurawski v Texas. She has worked for a number of indies in the UK on high profile productions in factual and entertainment, delivering programmes to AppleTV+, BBC & C4. This is her first feature documentary and her first time working for HiddenLight Productions.
Victoria Bax
Director of Production & Operations
Vicki’s experience spans 17 years in production management. She was Head of Production at Blast! Films. There, she worked across a slate of over 100 different series in both the US and UK, including BAFTA and Grierson award-winning documentaries, feature films, current affairs, live shows and drama documentaries, with credits including 999: What’s Your Emergency, Jeremy Kyle Show: Death on Daytime, Liverpool Narcos and Gold Rush: Our Race to Olympic Glory.
Cherry Dorrett
Production Executive
Over the last 25 years, Cherry has worked on numerous high-profile Emmy, BAFTA, Grierson and Academy Award winning dramas, documentaries, features and installations. Notable credits include Band of Brothers, The Hours, Natural World: The Batman of Mexico, H is for Hawk, Inside Nature’s Giants and 1983: The Brink of Apocalypse. Her most recent work includes If I Could Tell You Just One Thing and the Emmy award winning In Her Hands.