Maisie Crow
Director/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.
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.
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. Other credits include the smash hit Amazon docuseries Shiny Happy People (a Critics’ Choice nominee); feature documentary The Grab from Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media; Amazon docuseries LuLaRich; and Emmy Award-winning and Peabody nominee Belly of the Beast. She is currently producing the second season of the Shiny Happy People franchise.
Cori Shepherd
Producer
Cori is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning producer. She produced the record-smashing Amazon docuseries Shiny Happy People, and is currently directing/producing the next season of the franchise. Her other projects include LuLaRich, the hit docuseries for Amazon; Warm Bodies, a $116m global box office feature for Lionsgate; Open Heart, a 2013 Oscar-nominated HBO documentary; and Collisions, a 2016 Sundance premiere Emmy winner. Her feature documentary Bending the Arc, which premiered at Sundance and on Netflix, was acclaimed as “a stunning documentary...a glorious and uplifting film.”
Hillary Clinton
Executive Producer
In every role she has ever held – as an advocate for women and kids, as an attorney, as First Lady, as Senator, as Secretary of State, and as the first woman in U.S. history to earn a major party’s presidential nomination – Hillary Clinton has defied convention and stood up for what she believes.
She knows more than most about setbacks – and comebacks. She has a fierce sense of gratitude for the women who have come before her, and those who inspire her today. She is a mom and a proud grandma who is determined to make the world fairer and more equal for everyone.
Chelsea Clinton
Executive Producer
Chelsea Clinton is an outspoken advocate for those who need it most. She uses her voice – and a lifetime of experience standing up to bullies – to defend issues of human rights, public health, the environment and climate change, and to combat the spread of misinformation, particularly online.
Throughout her life, Chelsea has been dedicated to supporting young people in their pursuits to change the world around them – first as first-daughter and now as a teacher, best-selling author, and mentor. And, as a mom of three Chelsea is committed to doing everything she can to leave the world a better place for future generations to come.
Jennifer Lawrence
Executive Producer
Jennifer Lawrence is an Academy award winning actress, producer, and activist. She has starred in film projects such as Silver Linings Playbook, earning her the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2012, American Hustle, Don’t Look Up, Joy, and The Hunger Games trilogy. In 2018, Lawrence and her producing partner, Justine Ciarrocchi, founded Excellent Cadaver. Since its inception, the two have been developing a diverse slate of award-winning projects, including No Hard Feelings and Causeway. Their latest ventures include producing Bread & Roses, a powerful documentary about the 2021 Taliban takeover’s effect on women that premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim. Next up, Lawrence will star and produce in an adaptation of Die, My Love and The Wives. Off screen, she is a fierce advocate for gender equality, and is on the board of RepresentUs, a non-partisan organization working nationwide to pass powerful anti-corruption laws.
Justine Ciarrocchi
Executive Producer
Justine Ciarrocchi is an American film producer and co-founder of the production company Excellent Cadaver, which she established in 2018 alongside Academy Award-winning actress and producer Jennifer Lawrence. The company’s first film, Causeway, made its premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. The drama garnered critical acclaim and Brian Tyree Henry, who played opposite Lawrence, received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Excellent Cadaver’s first comedy, No Hard Feelings, premiered in June 2023 and earned Lawrence a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance By a Female Actor, Comedy. Ciarrocchi and Lawrence, alongside Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights advocate, Malala Yousafzai, produced Bread and Roses, a poignant documentary about the experiences of Afghan women under Taliban rule. The film, directed by Sahra Mani, debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023, receiving a special acknowledgement from the Jury, and will make its global premiere on Apple TV+. Next up, Ciarrocchi and Lawrence will produce an adaptation of Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz, with Lawrence set to star and Lynne Ramsay set to direct.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.