Production Team
BRETT KASHMERE
Co-Director
Brett Kashmere is a filmmaker, curator, and writer living in Oakland, California. His creative and scholarly practice reframes dominant narratives about sports and illuminates new perspectives and histories. Kashmere’s films and videos have screened at the BFI London Film Festival, Milano Film Festival, Kassel Documentary Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Museum of Contemporary Photography, UnionDocs, Conversations at the Edge, CROSSROADS, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. He is executive director of Canyon Cinema Foundation, founding editor of INCITE Journal of Experimental Media, and co-editor of Craig Baldwin: Avant to Live! Kashmere holds an MA in Film Studies and an MFA in Studio Art from Concordia University and a PhD in Film & Digital Media from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
SOLOMON TURNER
Co-Director / Producer
Solomon Turner is a filmmaker, cinematographer, producer and co-founder of Hello Benjamin Films, an award winning film production company. He participated in the Visions du Réel Industry Rough Cut Lab with a feature in post production. Solomon received his BA in Cinema Studies from Oberlin College and an MFA in Film/Video from the California Institute of the Arts. His work has been featured on IndieWire and has screened at the REDCAT Theatre and Poetic Research Bureau (Los Angeles), Art Basel Miami, and Vienna International Film Festival. He is an alum of the Sundance Creative Producing Summit. Solomon is a Sundance Documentary Fund Grantee.
MAGGIE CORONA-GOLDSTEIN
Producer
Maggie Corona-Goldstein is a Mexican-American producer and co-founder of Hello Benjamin Films. She was awarded the 2021 Sundance Institute Project Advancement Grant for a feature in production. Maggie is a Sundance Documentary Fund Grantee, and was a Documentary Fellow for the Sundance Institute x Women In Film Financing Intensive. She is a producing alum of the Visions du Réel Industry Rough Cut Lab. She has also served as a Program Coordinator in non-profit arts education for youth throughout Los Angeles. Maggie holds a BA in Theater and Creative Writing from the University of Oregon, and an MFA in Acting from the California Institute of the Arts. Maggie also serves on the Board of Advisors for the UCLA Lab School.
DaMANUEL RICHARDSON
Producer
DaManuel’s Southern rural upbringing fuels his passion for stories rooted in identity, nature, and intergenerational healing. He’s a partner at Hello Benjamin Films, producing bold fiction and nonfiction work that has been supported by the Ford Foundation, Sundance, Field of Vision, and TIFF’s K-Story Fund. His latest project, Artificial Horizon, was presented at Ji.hlava New Visions Forum 2024 and Big Sky Pitch 2025. Projects he’s produced have screened at IFFR, BlackStar, and Atlanta Film Festival. He’s worked with the Everything Everywhere All At Once team, programmed for Sundance, and consults for major doc funds—all while keeping a thriving garden.
PRODUCTION Support
The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments
University of California, Santa Cruz
Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, California
The Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Studio Residency