Team
Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Co-Editor, Co-writer: Almudena CarracedoTrained in film production in Madrid and Paris, Almudena worked as a television director in Spain, directing programs for broadcast on Canal+. In 2000, she came to the U.S. as an international scholar to work on her doctoral dissertation on U.S./Mexico border documentaries at UCLA Film School. Her documentary on Tijuana as a border town Welcome, A Docu-Journey of Impressions received the Sterling Award for Best Short Documentary at Silverdocs Documentary Festival and screened in numerous national and international festivals. Five years in the making, Made in L.A. is her first feature documentary. Almudena is a recent fellow of NALIP’s Latino Producers Academy.
Producer, Co-writer: Robert BaharRobert is Director and Co-Founder of Doculink, a grassroots organization for documentary filmmakers, and sits on the Board of Directors of the International Documentary Association. He produced and directed the award-winning documentary Laid to Waste, which aired on Philadelphia PBS stations, and has line-produced and associate-produced several independent films including ITVS’ Diary of a City Priest, which premiered at Sundance and Pittsburgh, which premiered at Tribeca. He holds an M.F.A. from The Peter Stark Program at the USC School of Cinema-Television.
Editor, Co-writer: Lisa LeemanLisa most recently co-directed and edited the documentary Who Needs Sleep with Haskell Wexler, which premiered at Sundance in 2006. An Emmy nominee for Fender Philosophers, Lisa has edited numerous award-winning documentaries, including Michelle LeBrun’s Death: A Love Story (Sundance ‘99) and Laura Simon’s Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary (POV; Freedom of Expression Award, Sundance ‘97). She has served as a judge at the Sundance Film Festival, as the president of the International Documentary Association (IDA), and on the board of the National Coalition of Independent Public Broadcasting Producers.
Editor: Kim Roberts
Kim Roberts is an Emmy-Nominated editor of feature documentaries. Her work includes Oscar Nominees and Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winners Daughter from Danang and Long Night's Journey into Day, as well as Two Days in October (Peabody and Emmy winner ‘06), The Fall of Fujimori (Sundance ‘05), Lost Boys of Sudan (Independent Spirit Award ‘04), A Hard Straight (Grand Prize, SXSW), Daddy & Papa (Sundance) and Autism: the Musical (Tribeca 07, acquired by HBO). She also works with her husband to write/direct narrative films, including the feature Wilderness Survival for Girls (Los Angeles Film Festival - Jury Award for Outstanding Performance) which is distributed by ContentFilms/Image Entertainment. Kim received her Masters Degree in Documentary Film Production from Stanford University.
Joseph is a film, television and concert music composer with a multitude of credits that include the features Curdled, Price Of Glory, the television series Resurrection Blvd., Britney Spears’ music video “Oops, I Did It Again,” and Hector Galán’s multiple award-winning Chicano: The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. The documentary he recently scored, Cowboy Del Amor, received nominations by the International Documentary Association and the Writer’s Guild of America. Selections from his concert piece, Misa Azteca, have been performed at Carnegie Hall, the Sorbonne in Paris, and recently the Sydney Opera House in Australia.
