Producer / Director
Principle Pictures

Beth started the media company Principle Pictures to combine storytelling and social impact—through films, podcasts, news reports, social media series, and complementary impact campaigns. From the teen mental health crisis and girls’ education in Afghanistan to the climate emergency and post-conflict peace and reconciliation, Beth’s work is imbued with hope as it focuses on solutions to seemingly intractable problems. Her work premieres at top-tier film festivals globally and can be found across national and international media outlets, including MTV/Paramount+ (Afghan Dreamers), PBS FRONTLINE (The Last Generation), PBS/POV (What Tomorrow Brings), PBS/Independent Lens (Dawnland), PBS/NewsHour (reports from Afghanistan, Yemen, Puerto Rico), PBS/World Channel (The List), The New York Times, TIME, History Channel (Flying Pyramids, Soaring Stones), The Sundance Channel (Beyond Belief), Discovery Networks (Flu Time Bomb, Breast Cancer Legacy), Lifetime (Fighting For Our Future), ABC News, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, The Washington Post, PRI The World, NHK, Canal Vie, and many others.

Beth’s honors include: Emmy Award, World Press Photo Award, Overseas Press Club Award, Scripps Howard Award, National Headliner Award, Webby Award, RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award, AWRT’s Gracie Allen Award, One Shared World International Outreach Award, and Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award.

Filmmaker / Multimedia Artist
PLAYLAND

Georden West is a multimedia artist and filmmaker exploring the speculative openings of archival silence. Named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 2022 “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” West centers their work around experiences of fringe communities. They challenge traditional notions of preservation and offer a fresh perspective on the interplay, interdependence, and entanglement of queer histories.

West’s first feature, PLAYLAND, world premiered in the Tiger Competition at the 2023 International Film Festival Rotterdam and had its North American premiere at Tribeca Film Festival. The film is a recipient of the 2021 LEF Moving Image Fund and 2022 Frameline Completion Fund. PLAYLAND participated in 2022 Gotham Week (formerly IFP) US features in post-production and the American Film Festival Poland’s US in Progress program.

West was a 2021-22 Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts Fellow and an alum of the 2022 Zurich Film Festival Academy. They won gold at the 46th Student Academy Awards and was a 2021 Academy Gold Women’s Fellowship finalist. They have spoken on panels centering queerness for the Gotham, UnionDocs, IFFR Pro Hub, and Rendez-Vous with French Cinema at the Lincoln Center.

Director / DP
Painting the Back of the Hill

Abhi Indrekar is an independent documentary filmmaker and editor raised in the traditions of street theatre activism and community-based art in India. Abhi’s credits include: Assistant Editor on Broken Gods dir. Alice Tilche and Dakxin Chhara (Official Selection Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival 2021, Essex DocFest 2021, Ethnografilm Paris 2022, and Best Documentary Winner, Art International Film Festival 2020): Additional Camera and Assistant Editor on Reason dir. Anand Patwardhan (IDFA Best Feature Doc Award 2018; World Premiere @ Toronto International Film Festival 2018); Assistant Director on Sameer dir. Dakxin Chhara (Official Selection, Rotterdam International Film Festival 2023); Assistant Director and Assistant Editor, Bullet dir. Dakxin Chhara. Abhi has over a decade’s experience with some of India’s most respected and daring socio-political filmmakers, including Anand Patwardhan, Dakxin Chhara and Nakul Singh Sawhney. He has worked on documentary and fiction films, as well as high risk video reportage for Chalchitra Abhiyaan under extreme hostile situations.

Since coming to the US, Abhi has been an active member of the Undocumented Filmmaker’s Collective, BIPOC Doc Editors, Alliance of Documentary Editors and contributed to revision conversations of Sundance’s Nonfiction Core Application in 2022. He received a master’s in Film and TV from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Savannah, GA and is currently based in Boston, MA. Abhi collaborates with Michaela Henry as the creative team Ghumantu Art.

Director / Producer
Painting the Back of the Hill

Michaela Henry is a writer, filmmaker, and educator based in Boston. She came to filmmaking unexpectedly while leading a student research group that recorded testimonials of police violence in collaboration with artist-activists from Budhan Theatre in the Indian state of Gujarat. Michaela earned a PhD in English from Brandeis University and has published on the literature and rhetoric of nuclear weapons in South Asia. She has worked as an assistant professor of literary and cultural studies at liberal arts institutions in India, where she co-designed her university's first writing center. She has also taught courses on postcolonialism and education, the arts and social movements, literature, research, and writing in the US and India. Since returning to Boston in 2019, Michaela has written and co-directed documentary and short-fiction films. Working with Abhi Indrekar as the creative team Ghumantu Art, she brings her background in academics, publishing, and the arts to collaborations with artists and community organizations in Boston, most recently L’Merchie Frazier’s public art commission from the City of Boston: “Call and Response: Radiating Safety” for Fire Station 42 in Roxbury.

Consultant / Producer / Sales Agent

Louise Rosen has worked in independent media and the arts for over 25 years. As a media executive, she has in-depth experience in the film business, including project development, production, and distribution. She began her international career as Director of Sales & Co-productions at WGBH and today serves as an editorial & business consultant, producer, and sales agent. Her projects have included Oscar, Emmy, Sundance, and other award-winning films released across all platforms worldwide. Louise is a tutor, speaker, and moderator at conferences and film festivals such as Sunnyside, DOC NYC, & Hot Docs. She’s on the board of the Maine Film Association and chairs the Advocacy Committee.