Christopher Holmes - Director/Writer/Executive Producer/Editor

Christopher Holmes is an award-winning filmmaker and recipient of the North Carolina Arts Council’s $10,000 Individual Artist Fellowship in Film and Video (2010-2011). His films have been featured in more than 50 festivals around the world, including the Milano Film Festival, Slamdance, SF Indie, Cinequest, Sidewalk, the Maryland Film Festival, Wisconsin Film Festival, and New Filmmakers at Anthology Film Archives in NYC, among several others. His short film Sapsucker was awarded Best Narrative Short at the Denver Underground Film Festival, and his short film Fence Dogs was awarded 1st Prize at the James River Film Festival in Richmond, VA.  Christopher has served in the past as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Broadcasting and Cinema at UNC-Greensboro, and his ethnographic documentary work with The Unheard Voices Project has been featured on dozens of PBS stations nationwide. Christopher served as Senior Programmer for the RiverRun International Film Festival, an Academy Award-qualifying festival in Winston-Salem, NC, from 2009-2021.  

Adam Tate - Producer/Unit Production Manager

Adam is a graduate of UNCSA's School of Filmmaking and earned his Master’s degree at the University of Texas at Austin. His recent production credits include Chloe Zhao’s Oscar-winning Nomadland, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, Carlos López Estrada’s Summertime and Kate Tsang’s Marvelous and the Black Hole. He produced Martha Stephens' award-winning 2012 feature Pilgrim Song, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival, and served as 2nd AD on her 2010 feature debut Passenger Pigeons--also a SXSW premiere.  Additionally Adam has worked for the Austin Film Society and Troublemaker Studios.

Christopher Schneider - Director of Photography

Christopher is a graduate of both UNCSA's School of Filmmaking and The London Film School, and has worked on numerous features and short films performing cinematography and lighting duties. His Director of Photography credits include Random 11, Hayseeds and Scalawags, the short film Lunch Date, which screened at the Palm Springs International Film Festival and the Santa Barbara Film Festival, and Jonathan Steckley's debut feature The Volunteer.  He also crewed on Mark Romanek's 2010 feature Never Let Me Go.

Aaron Schnobrich - Executive Producer/Producer

Aaron has an extensive background in feature films, commercials, music videos and social justice documentaries, and he served as Co-producer on UNCSA alum Chad Hartigan's 2013 film This Is Martin Bonner, which won the Audience Award in the NEXT section at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and an Independent Spirit Award later that year. He also produced Ma, the debut feature film from Celia Rowlson Hall, which recently premiered at the 2015 Venice Film Festival.  The Pulitzer Institute and Sundance have recognized his work and he has travelled to more than 15 countries while creating and telling stories. His works have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times nationally and internationally and his still photography has been published on NationalGeographic.com.

Christopher Holmes     director/writer/executive producer/producer/editor
Adam Tate     producer/unit production manager
Christopher Schneider     director of photography
Aaron Schnobrich     executive producer/producer
Carrie Coon     associate producer
Vince Gonzalez     associate producer
Alexander Sablow     camera operator
Jonathan Pfundstein     first assistant camera
Matthew McMurtrie     second assistant camera/production assistant
Chase Livengood     gaffer
Tyler Blythe     sound mixer
Derek Brooks     boom operator
Meredith Hannah     production designer
Jeff Seelye     composer/sound supervisor/sound designer
Chris Iversen     editor
Ian Johnson     editor
Tommy Stang     sound editor
Scott Ferrara     dialogue editor  
Ayumi Ashley     colorist