the CREW.
As a team, we are drawn to stories that expose structural injustice through a human lens, using intelligence, warmth, and humour to make complex issues accessible. We approach this subject not as detached observers but as participants in the digital age ourselves—people who have experienced both its liberating potential and its creeping degradation. Our collaboration is rooted in a shared belief that storytelling can both entertain and empower, translating complex systems into human terms that provoke reflection and action.
[ DIRECTOR, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ]
EMILY JAMES
Emily James is an award-winning filmmaker known for her inventive storytelling. She trained in documentary directing at the U.K. National Film and Television School and has spent 20 years working in the factual sector. She’s produced and directed cutting edge factual tv and film for everyone from the BBC to VICE. She has helmed two successful feature docs, and a number of award winning tv series. She has also made a few ads and done some branded content along the way. She’s worked in development for a number of TV indies and run development and production teams for online platforms and ad agencies. Amongst her achievements, she made the seminal film about the dark web marketplace Silk Road, and The Guardian once wrote “Emily James is a genius”. Which was nice of them.
[ EDITOR, PRODUCER, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ]
KURT ENGFEHR
Kurt Engfehr is an Emmy award-winning producer and editor, best known for his work on Michael Moore’s Oscar-winning Bowling For Columbine, for which Kurt won the American Cinema Editors award for best documentary editing, and the Cannes Palme d’Or winning, box-office hit, Fahrenheit 9/11. Through his career, Kurt has edited, produced and directed countless films and television docs. Kurt co-directed The Yes Men Fix The World, which aired on HBO and won the audience award at the Berlin Film Festival, and directed Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead, a humorous doc about weight loss and self-realization that became a world-wide sensation seen on Netflix, CNN and other outlets in 17 countries. His work on the HBO news show Axios secured him his Emmy.
[ AUTHOR ]
CORY DOCTOROW
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. He is the author of dozens of books, most recently Ehshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse And What To Do About It; and the novels Picks and Shovels (a followup to Red Team Blues). Other notable books include the solarpunk novels Walkaway and The Lost Cause; the tech policy books The Internet Con and Chokepoint Capitalism; and the internationally bestselling YA Little Brother series. His next book is The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI (June 2026).
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He maintains a daily blog at Pluralistic.net. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is an AD White Professor at Cornell University; an MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate; a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University; a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science. He co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles and London. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. In 2022, he earned the Sir Arthur Clarke Imagination in Service to Society Awardee for lifetime achievement. In 2024, the Media Ecology Association awarded him the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. York University (Canada) made him an Honourary Doctor of Laws; and the Open University (UK) made him an Honourary Doctor of Computer Science.
[ PRODUCER ]
EVE MARSON
Eve Marson was most recently the showrunner for the following Netflix documentary series: What’s Next? The Future with Bill Gates (2024); Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet (2022); the Emmy-nominated Turning Point: 9/11 and The War on Terror (2021); and The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez (2020). She has worked on a wide variety of documentary projects, including independent feature films and programming for Netflix, ESPN 30for30, PBS, Discovery Channel and Animal Planet. Eve has also created a large library of short-form documentary work in collaboration with GOOD Inc. and other social-action organizations. She has directed and field-produced in countries around the world. Eve was born and raised in New York City and received her B.A. from Harvard University.
[ ANIMATOR ]
HAROLD MOSS
Moss, the founder of the 22-year-old animation, innovation, and production studio FlickerLab, has spent his career fusing storytelling, technology, and a passion for change-making media. Notably, Harold created and voiced the three-minute cartoon “A Brief History of the USA” in Michael Moore’s Academy Award-winning Bowling for Columbine (2003); was a producer of the 2008 Sundance Grand Jury Prize–winning and Oscar-nominated documentary, Trouble the Water; and is currently wrapping production on a sixth season of the Bleacher Report animated hit Gridiron Heights. His work spans commercials, documentaries, advocacy, political campaigns, animation, and entertainment. He has also produced a large volume of impactful learning content, including creating the series How the Body Works, currently in use in 30,000 classrooms across the country.
[ ILLUSTRATOR ]
KOREN SHADMI
Koren is an award-winning illustrator and cartoonist; he studied at the School of Visual Arts in NYC where he now teaches. So far, his graphic novels have been translated to a dozen languages. He's won a Gold Medal for the Society of Illustrators and has had his work published in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, Mother Jones and Wired among others.
Koren lives and works in Queens, New York, where he quietly awaits the apocalypse.
[ SOUND DESIGN & SCORE ]
JAMIE PERERA
Jamie is an Asian mixed-heritage composer, sound artist, and producer from East London whose work explores transformation in the Anthropocene. Blending electronic production, orchestration, data, and field recordings, he creates immersive works on grief, re-imagining, and reclamation. His piece Anthropocene in C Major transformed 12,000 years of climate data into orchestral sound. Other projects include Hakuryu, a “space dragon” of cloud data, and Babel Reclaimed, a tapestry of endangered languages. His credits span 40+ films and collaborations with The Serpentine, The Barbican, The Royal College of Art, and the European Space Agency.
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