Karla Murthy
Director and Producer
Karla is an Emmy Award-nominated producer. She began her career working for the veteran journalist Bill Moyers. For over 15 years, she has been a producer, cameraperson and correspondent for several news programs on PBS. Her work was described by the Columbia Journalism Review as “compelling, informative and compassionate.” Karla is of Filipino and South Asian descent. She graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio with a degree in Religion and computer science, is an alum of the Third World Newsreel Workshop and the Documentary Institute at Antioch College in Ohio. She is a member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia and Film Fatales.
Alexandra Nikolchev
Producer and Director of Photography
Alexandra’s documentary credits include PBS, NBC, and HBO Documentary. She won a Peabody Award as a producer on "Don't Tell Anyone (No Le Digas a Nadie)," a feature-length documentary film that aired on P.O.V. In 2014 she received an Emmy Award as field producer for "Crossing the Line at the Border," a three-part PBS investigation into the U.S. Border Patrol. Alexandra studied journalism at New York University and received her undergraduate degree from University of California, Berkeley.
Kristen Nutile
Editor
Kristen’s work has shown around the world including the Sundance Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival, and she is a recipient of the Albert Maysles Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking. She recently edited the award winning film “Weed the People” by Abby Epstein and Ricky Lake, and “Warrior Women” for which she participated as a fellow in the Sundance Edit and Story Lab. She also edited the Netflix Original film, HEROIN(E) which was nominated for an Academy Award.
Julia Lewis
Archival Producer
Julia Lewis has worked on several documentary series' as a researcher, archival producer, and post production assistant. On shows for Discovery Channel, PBS, and Netflix, Julia has most recently worked to become a mini-expert on the mechanics of helicopter flight (Age of Aerospace), the world's deadliest viruses (Invisible Killers), and serial killer Ted Bundy (Conversations with a Killer: the Ted Bundy Tapes).
Andrew Fredericks
Supervising Editor
Andrew has been a documentary filmmaker for nearly thirty years. He has collaborated with journalist Bill Moyers on a host of documentaries. His work has appeared on ABC, NBC, PBS, National Geographic, and Bravo. He directed and edited Money Driven Medicine with producer Alex Gibney and edited the award-winning film, I Came to Testify in the highly-acclaimed PBS series Women, War & Peace, and Abigail Disney’s Emmy Award-winning feature documentary, The Armor of Light.
Bobak Lotfipour & Casey Trela
Composers
Bobak and Casey have composed music for The Society, Forever, The Exorcist, SMILF, OverWater (Belgium 2019), along with Light of My Life, A Ghost Story, Heroin(e) and Recovery Boys in collaboration with Daniel Hart. They also play in the band Dark Rooms.
Jad Abumrad
Executive Producer
Jad is the host and creator of WNYC Studios’ shows Radiolab, a recipient of two Peabody Awards, and More Perfect, hailed by The New York Times as “possibly the most mesmerizing podcast.” Both podcasts are downloaded 110 million times a year. In 2019, he founded OSM Audio with its inaugural project, Dolly Parton’s America in collaboration with WNYC Studios. In 2011, Jad was named a MacArthur Fellow.