The Filmmakers

Sara Lamm / Director

Sara Lamm’s feature films include BIRTH STORY: INA MAY GASKIN AND THE FARM MIDWIVES, DR. BRONNER’S MAGIC SOAPBOX, and THANK YOU FOR COMING, which documents the search for her biological father after discovering that she was conceived via sperm donor. Her work has screened at festivals, theaters, maternal health organizations, and universities all over the world, including at the LA Film Festival, DOCNYC, MASS-MOCA, Yale Medical School, Columbia School of Public Health, on PBS, and as a part of the U.S. State Department’s American Film Showcase.

Mary Wigmore / Director

Mary Wigmore is a documentary and television director. Her feature documentary, Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives (co-directed with Sara Lamm), won the audience award at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2012. Mary has made documentaries about the artists James Turrell, Louise Bonnet and Magdalena Suarez Frimkess as well as Los Angeles post-punk band That Dog and the guru of Ashtanga yoga. She has directed TV episodes of Single Drunk Female, American Horror Story, 9-1-1 and Scream Queens. Mary is a graduate of the Columbia University School of the Arts (MFA Directing).

Kate Roughan / Producer

Kate Roughan is SVP, Development and Production at Welle Entertainment / Primary Wave music. Previously, she was an independent producer with films nominated for 2 Independent Spirit Awards, AFI Silver Docs Award for Best Music Doc, Cannes Innovation Short List and LA Film Festival Audience Award. Kate was Production Supervisor on all 6 episodes of the Obi-Wan Kenobi series for LucasFilm and also Production Supervisor in prep for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. She has produced films for Zoe Cassavetes, Keven McAlestor (Academy Award Nominee) and worked with numerous high profile directors on social issue short form docs. Roughan is a fellow of Sundance Institute and Film Independent, a recipient of the prestigious Panavision Film Grant and holds an MFA from UCLA’s School of Film, Television and Digital Media where she has served as an Adjunct Professor.

Zachary Mortensen / Producer

Zach Mortensen is the founder of Ghost Robot, a production and management company in New York City. Recent productions include Joey Garfield’s narrative/doc hybrid film A LOVE LETTER FOR YOU featuring infamous graffiti artist Stephen “ESPO” Powers. His feature production of Benjamin Dickinson’s FIRST WINTER premiered at the 2012 Tribeca Film festival in the dramatic competition. Past productions include AGAINST THE CURRENT staring Joseph Fiennes, Michelle Trachtenberg and Mary Tyler Moore, the Gotham Award-winning feature film CHOKING MAN by director Steve Barron, as well as DR. BRONNER’S MAGIC SOAPBOX, BREATH CONTROL: THE HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BEAT BOX, and HELL HOUSE(2001). Mortensen’s feature ROAD by director Leslie McCleave premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival 2005.

Kate Amend / Editor

In December 2005, Kate Amend received the International Documentary Association’s inaugural award for Outstanding Achievement in Editing for her work, which includes two Academy Award-winning documentary features: INTO THE ARMS OF STRANGERS and THE LONG WAY HOME. Her recent collaboration with Michele Ohayon, STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME (2007) screened at the United Nations, South by Southwest, Berlin and Kagali Film Festivals. MAN FROM PLAINS, also released in 2007 and directed by Jonathan Demme, was a triple- award winner at the 2007 Venice Film Festival. Amend has been an advisor at the Sundance Institute Documentary Edit and Story Lab for the last five years and a juror at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival International Documentary Competition. She is on the faculty of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and of the Board of Directors of the American Cinema Editors.

Robin Pecknold / Composer

Composer Robin Pecknold is a singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter for the band Fleet Foxes. The band has appeared on Saturday Night Live, The Late Show with David Letterman, and alongside Neil Young in Hyde Park, London. Their second studio album, Helplessness Blues was released in 2011 and was nominated for Best Folk Album for the 54th Grammy Awards.

Carter Little / Music Supervisor

Carter Little is a music producer and composer working in Los Angeles, Nashville and New York City. His most recent credits include PBS’s CIRCUS (2010), Amnesty International’s 50th Anniversary Celebration (2011), and HBO’S MARINA ABROMOVIC : THE ARTIST IS PRESENT (2012). As a partner at 35Sound with legendary music supervisor, G. Marq Roswell (David Lynch’s Wild At Heart, Alan Parker’s The Commitments, and Denzel Washington’s The Hurricane), he is currently co producing the score and soundtrack for Quentin Tarantino Presents, RZA’s MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS (2013), and the Nicholas Kristof-inspired PBS-series, HALF THE SKY (October, 2012). Little took much inspiration from working with the filmmakers on Birth Story, as his wife heroically delivered their second child during post-production on the film.

Production Company / Ghost Robot

Ghost Robot is a New York-based production studio, which harnesses a variety of tools and creative talent to construct engaging ideas, content, and experiences across all platforms. Putting an emphasis on developing, packaging, and producing original content, Ghost Robot’s home-grown stable of directors, producers, designers, and animators, have created award-winning Films, Music Videos, and Commercials that have been shown across the World and Web. Known for a creative, experimental flair and get-it-done approach, Ghost Robot combines creative solutions with hands-on production at a very early stage to create original, efficient, and effective work regardless of scope and budget.