Creative Team
Ian Madrigal – Writer/Director/Producer/Editor
Ian Madrigal (they/he) is a queer and transgender filmmaker and creative activist making social impact through subversive storytelling. They are best known for their viral “cause”-play – carefully crafted stunts which span from photobombing CEOs in Congressional hearings dressed as the Monopoly Man to shaming Trump's DHS Secretary out of a restaurant over the child separation policy. Ian’s work has been profiled in the New York Times, Washington Post, HBO, the Today Show, Fox News, and NPR. Ian was radicalized by political punk rock and staged their first creative protest at 14, slipping notes into the pockets of Disney clothing to expose sweatshop labor. After graduating UCLA Law’s Critical Race Studies program, they moved to Washington D.C. to serve as Legal Fellow with U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and went on to direct high-profile nonprofit campaigns focused on corporate accountability, human rights, and racial justice. Ian left the nonprofit world in 2018 to pursue independent filmmaking and creative consulting full-time. They now live in Baltimore and produce original video and written content, design media and organizing campaigns, and lead advocacy workshops for nonprofit clients and progressive causes. Ian was honored with the Recent Alumni Award from UCLA Law's Public Interest program in 2019, the Greenlining Institute's prestigious Torchbearer Award in 2023, and a spot in the 2022-2023 cohort of Filmmaking Fellows with the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund at Johns Hopkins University.
Amy Hobby – Producer
Amy (she/her) is the Emmy-award winning and Academy Award-nominated producer of more than 30 feature-length films, including: Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV (2023, Sundance Film Festival 2023, Greenwich Films/Dogwoof), What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015, Academy Award nomination, Emmy Award winner, Peabody Award winner, Netflix), Love, Marilyn (2012, directed by Liz Garbus, HBO), And Everything is Going Fine (2010, directed by Steven Soderbergh, IFC Films), and Secretary (2002, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury prize).
Jessica Cochran – Producer
Jessica (she/her) is a Chinese-Indonesian American producer based in New York City. After graduating from the NYU Undergraduate Tisch Film and Television program, she has worked on the production teams for Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV (2023), Eat the Rich: the Gamestop Saga (2022), Making Shakespeare: The First Folio (2023, narrated by Audra McDonald), and an upcoming episode of “The Turning Point”, an MSNBC Films Documentary series from Trevor Noah’s Day Zero Productions, TIME Studios, Sugar23, and Mainstay Entertainment.
Jes Gallegos – Director of Photography
Jes (they/them) is a cinematographer, producer, director, editor, and documentary filmmaker based in San Francisco, California. They specialize in cinéma vérité and complex interview lighting. They have collaborated across media platforms for many of the world's leading brands such as Vice, Discovery Channel, Netflix, Google, Airbnb, and Dow Jones among others. Jes has made work with filmmakers like Monika Truet on ‘Gendernation’, Marc Smolowitz on ‘The G word,’ Cheryl Dunye on the FX series ‘Pride’, Morgan Fallon on ‘Elvis Goes There’, and Rivkah Medow on ‘Ahead of the Curve’. In their free time, they organize Rock Paper Film Society, a Bay Area women/non-binary folks in film with over 2,000+ members.
Joe Bini – Supervising Editor
Joe Bini (he/him) is an Emmy award-winning editor, writer, and director who works in both fiction and nonfiction forms. He is best known for his feature film editorial collaborations with Werner Herzog, Lynne Ramsay, Andrea Arnold, and Laura Poitras – most recently, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022), which won Best Documentary at the Film Independent Spirit Awards and was nominated for the 2023 Academy Awards.