John Wellington Ennis, Director
John Ennis is a filmmaker, activist, and father. His feature films are PAY 2 PLAY: Democracy’s High Stakes, FREE FOR ALL! One Dude’s Quest to Save Democracy, Fish in a Barrel, and the Upright Citizens Brigade‘s Wild Girls Gone, starring Amy Poehler and Matt Walsh. Ennis is a co-founder of Video the Vote, a citizen journalism project reporting on election problems. He attended the film schools at New York University and University of Southern California and has taught documentary filmmaking at UCLA Extension. His book Where Else But the Streets is a photo journal of political street art, and his book Democracy Days chronicles voting battles of the Obama era.
Holly Mosher, Producer
Holly Mosher is an award-winning filmmaker who brings socially conscious films to the public. Holly made her directorial debut with her award-winning documentary, Hummingbird, about Brazilian street kids. She produced two films on the pharmaceutical industry: Side Effects, starring Katherine Heigl, and the documentary Money Talks: Profits Before Patient Safety. She co-produced Maybe Baby, and executive produced Vanishing of the Bees, FREE FOR ALL!, and PAY 2 PLAY. The second film she directed, Bonsai People – The Vision of Muhammad Yunus, aired on Public Television.
VIVIAN UMINO, EDITOR
Vivian Umino studied theater at Yale University and worked in the Seattle theater scene before eventually morphing to film and graduating with a MFA in Film Directing from UCLA. Although she initially focused on fiction filmmaking, receiving the prestigious ABC/Disney New Talent Development Grant for her first feature script, Master Painter, Vivian soon fell in love with documentary. In addition to editing numerous shorts with subjects such as the bottled water industry and voter disenfranchisement, as well as oral histories of filmmakers that include documentary luminaries Albert Maysles and D.A. Pennebaker, she edited the hour long documentary on renowned stage director Peter Sellars (PBS, 2005) and the election documentaries Free For All! and PAY 2 PLAY, Vivian also directed and edited “Beyond Breast Cancer: Stories of Survivors”(2007) for the Susan B. Komen Foundation. Vivian has taught documentary filmmaking at UCLA’s Department of Film and Television, UCLA Extension, and the Art Institute of CA in Los Angeles.
Richard Ray Perez, Executive Producer
Mr. Perez executive produced and directed the feature documentary, Cesar’s Last Fast, a film about the spiritual commitment of American civil rights and labor leader Cesar E. Chavez that premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Prior to joining the Sundance staff, Mr. Perez was an executive producer at Brave New Films where he produced two documentary series and directed Unprecedented: The 2000 Election. Richard Ray Perez holds a bachelor of arts degree in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University. He served as Executive Director of the International Documentary Association.
Rebecca Lynn Minkin, Executive Producer
Rebecca Lynn Minkin graduated cum laude from Florida Atlantic University, where she received the Academic Achievement Award in Creative Writing. She moved to New York City and established herself in music artist management and concert tour production. Her former employers include: Cyndi Lauper, Dolly Parton, American Idols Live, Moby, Korn and many more. Rebecca transitioned into movies by serving as the production coordinator on the Red Bull Air Force full-feature film Human Flight 3D. Rebecca since founded her company, Becca Lynn Worldwide, for the purposes of producing independent films.