John Wellington EnnisJohn Wellington Ennis is a filmmaker, activist, and some dude. His previous films are FREE FOR ALL!: One Dude’s Quest to Save Democracy and the Upright Citizens Brigade‘s Wild Girls Gone, starring Amy Poehler. Ennis writes for The Huffington Post, is a co-founder of Video the Vote, and is Executive Director of Public Interest Pictures. His production company Shoot First Inc. in Beverly Hills shoots and edits documentaries, Reality TV, and comedy.
Holly MosherHolly Mosher is an award winning filmmaker who brings socially conscious films to the public. After graduating with honors from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Holly produced a number of commercials and feature films. In 2004 she made her directorial debut with the documentary, Hummingbird. Afterwards, she produced the critically acclaimed films Side Effects, starring Katherine Heigl, and the follow-up documentary Money Talks: Profits Before Patient Safety.
She has served as a producer and executive producer on several films including: Maybe Baby, Vanishing of the Bees and FREE FOR ALL! Currently, Holly is in production on her second directorial project, Bonsai, where she is following the work of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank. Her films have received international press attention, and The Hollywood Reporter named her one of the top up-and-coming independent film producers.
Vivian UminoVivian 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 voter suppression feature film “Free for All!” 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.