Crew

Gaetane Rousseau has worked in the French film industry for over 2 decades as a cinematographer of feature films and documentaries for both theatrical and television release. She earlier collaborated with Catherine Masud on two feature films including THE CLAY BIRD. She is a fully accredited member of the French Union of Cinematographers and her showreel and other details can be found at www.gaetanerousseau.com. Gaetane has shot a France segment for the film in August 2016 and the first phase of California shooting in Feb/March.


Michael Santy is a Bay-Area based DP/camera operator who has more than 30 years of experience working in features, TV shows, commercials, music videos, documentaries and visual effects. Among the directors he has worked with are Francis Ford Coppola, John Carpenter, and Stephen Spielberg. More information about his work can be found at www.michaelsanty.com.

Vicente Franco has been a Director of Photography all over the world for more than twenty-five years. He was a 2003 Oscar nominee for Best Documentary and Emmy nominee for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for Daughter from DaNang, winner of the Sundance Film Festival 2002 Grand Jury Prize. He was Director of Photography on 3 other Academy Award nominees: The Barber of Birmingham (2012), The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (2010), and Freedom On My Mind (1994). His credits include the PBS series Latino Americans, and Latin Music USA. He also shot The Storm That Swept Mexico, Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Botany of Desire, Orozco Man of Fire, Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi, The Fight in the Fields, The Good War as well as Summer of Love, which he co-produced and co-directed for the PBS/American Experience series, about the SF Haight Ashbury hippie community in 1967.

Ken Schneider is a Peabody- winning producer/director who has also edited nearly 40 feature documentaries for PBS, HBO, Showtime and Al-Jazeera, and others. He received a Peabody as Co-producer and editor of SOFT VENGEANCE. He edited the Oscar-nominated REGRET TO INFORM, described by the New York Times as “unforgettable ... exquisitely filmed, edited and scored.” Other films he edited have earned multiple Emmys, a Columbia-Dupont, three Peabodys, an Indie Spirit and top awards at the Sundance Film Festival. Ken is drawn to stories of war and peace, human rights, artists, American history, contemporary social issues, and Cuba.

Louise Rubacky is an editor and filmmaker with over 25 years experience honing filmed stories of all genres. She has written, produced, and/or directed various independent film projects, led creative support teams, and edited for such major filmmakers as George Lucas, Francis Coppola, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Nicolas Roeg, and Andrew Stanton, among others. As an editor she is known for her work on The Godfather: Part III (1990), Playing God (1997) and There's Something About W (2004).

John Lissauer is an American composer, producer, and performer. At the age of 19, he arranged the first recordings of Al Jarreau. Lissauer went on to produce and arrange a pair of Leonard Cohen albums. Lissauer produced and arranged the first recording of "Hallelujah" which was featured in the film Watchmen and inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2019. He has been a composer or music producer for record albums, films, and radio and TV commercials. Lissauer received a Clio "Campaign of the Decade" award for his work for Polaroid. He has also scored the music for dozens of feature films, documentaries, and TV series.

Cinque is an artist, filmmaker and editor who's passionate about the intersection of cinematic artistry and social impact. He spent eighteen years as a documentary editor for film and television and has earned international recognition directing both fiction and non fiction work. Recent works include The One and Only Dick Gregory (Showtime) executive produced by Kevin Hart and Lena Waithe for which Cinque was story producer, field director and editor. Cinque also co wrote and edited My Name is Pauli Murray (Amazon Studios) for the Academy Award nominated directors of RBG, Betsy West and Julie Cohen. My Name is Pauli Murray has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award, a Peabody and a Critic’s Choice Award.

Before co-founding Sub-Basement Archival, Rachel served as Co-Producer and Archival Producer for Nancy Kates’ internationally acclaimed documentary Regarding Susan Sontag. The film aired on HBO, and received a FOCAL International award for its archival footage. Rachel has edited several feature documentaries, including Why We Sing, and Occupied Minds, and was the Director and Producer of Death on a Friendly Border which explores the rising number of migrant deaths on the US-Mexico border. This film garnered an Angelus Award and was broadcast on KQED, Link-TV, and RTVE in Spain.

Rachel also spent six years conducting research for Harvard University’s Pluralism Project, and was an archival researcher and production manager for Henry Louis Gates’ Encyclopedia Africana. Rachel earned a Masters degree in Documentary Film from Stanford University, an MTS from Harvard University, and a BA from Hamilton College.

Prior to co-founding Sub-Basement Archival, Jennifer worked as a producer in film and television for nearly 20 years. She wrote, produced and conducted extensive archival research on a series of historical documentaries for Lucasfilm. Jennifer also wrote and produced the Lucasfilm feature documentary, Double Victory, about the Tuskegee Airmen, served as co-producer on Manifest Destiny , and co-directed and co-produced Of Rights and Wrongs. Jennifer’s documentary short, Inside/Out, won a Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco Film Festival and screened on PBS stations around the country.

In addition to her documentary work, Jennifer has served as Producer on feature projects at Industrial Light + Magic, as well as on commercial productions for Publicis & Hal Riney and Actual Films. Jennifer earned a Masters degree in Documentary Film from Stanford University and a BA in History from Cornell University.