Samantha Campbell is a filmmaker and advocate. She is the president of The Campbell Foundation, an organization committed to the protection of our natural resources. Her work is devoted to pursuing and advancing projects that lift up stories of human achievement, the environment, community, and the arts. Samantha lives in San Francisco, California with her two children. She will enthusiastically join any singalong. The Secret Song is her feature film directorial debut.

Todd Dayton has worked in documentary film for more than 15 years, with roles running the gamut from production assistant to sound recordist to cinematographer to editor and producer. His first feature documentary, After the Island (co-producer, co-editor, co-director), won Best of Festival at the Sundial Film Festival. Jacob, a project Dayton edited, debuted at RainDance and won Best Documentary Feature at the Greenpoint Film Festival. Coming Home, a television documentary he co-edited, won both a Chris Award and the CINE Golden Eagle Award. Other projects have aired on HBO, Showtime, PBS, MSNBC, Bravo, and many other networks, as well as film festivals worldwide. He received a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where he specialized in documentary film.

Rachel Benson is passionate about storytelling having started out in publishing in her hometown of New York City and moving to San Francisco in 2000 where she began helping non-profit and foundation clients bring to light through video the impact they were having on the world. Her film producing credits include the award-winning narrative feature, Opal, as well as a variety of music-related documentary features including, The Doobie Brothers: Let the Music Play. She received a master’s degree in Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts from SF State University and lives in San Francisco, CA with her husband and two kids.

Jeff Boyette has been working in the film and video industry in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2007. Jeff began as an assistant and eventually staff editor at Remedy Editorial in San Francisco. After going freelance in 2013 Jeff has devoted his career to editing feature documentary films. His work has aired on HBO, PBS and Pivot TV, streamed on Netflix and Amazon, screened in film festivals around the world, and has earned two regional Emmy nominations. Most recently Jeff edited the late director James Redford’s final film, Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir. The biopic about the renowned author premiered at Sundance in 2021 followed by a broadcast premiere on PBS American Masters and a streaming release on Netflix. Previously Jeff worked on numerous other short and feature length projects with Redford including Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution (2017, HBO) and numerous projects with executive producer/director Owsley Brown and producer/director Anne Flatté including the feature documentaries River City Drumbeat (2019, DocNYC, PBS) and Serenade For Haiti (2016, DOC NYC). Jeff also edited for Mark Decena, award winning director and founder of Kontent Films, on a number of short projects and two feature documentaries, Not Without Us (2016) and Watershed: Exploring A New Water Ethic For The New West (2012). Jeff is a lifetime resident of California now living happily with his wife and two kids in Alameda. Outside the edit suite Jeff embraces the outdoors however he can, whether that be road cycling, hiking, birding, camping, paddle boarding or running.

Christy McGill is a film producer, writer, story consultant, and distribution advisor. She most recently produced the award-winning feature documentary PASANG: In the Shadow of Everest (director, Nancy Svendsen) which had its world premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in March of 2022 and won the Charlie Fowler Award for Best Adventure Film at Mountainfilm Fest in Telluride, Colorado. Prior, she produced the award-winning feature doc Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly (director, Cheryl Haines, co-director Gina Leibrecht, 2019), currently in distribution (First Run Features; Journeyman Pictures). Prior, she  produced the documentary feature Serenade for Haiti (director, Owsley Brown, 2016), which had its world  premiere at DOC NYC, won multiple Best Documentary awards and is currently being distributed by GOOD DOCS. Christy also co-produced Scott Crocker’s critically-acclaimed 2010 feature documentary Ghost Bird which premiered at Hot Docs and garnered praise in reviews in the New York  Times, NPR, and The Wall Street Journal, and earned distribution on NETFLIX. Christy has consulted on a  wide variety of films, advising during pre-production, story development, field production, post-production, release preparation, and distribution and promotion strategies, contributing to documentary projects that have won a Peabody award, Emmy nominations and been showcased on PBS, HBO, NETFLIX, and another  broadcast, theatrical, museum, community, education, and digital outlets.

Oakland, California native B. Quincy Griffin has scored over a dozen feature films including Oscar nominated Daughter from Danang and Sundance Film Festival winner My Flesh and Blood. His recent feature film scores include River City Drumbeat, Bad Attitude, and A Kind of Order. Quincy’s music can also be heard in the 2012 Oscar nominated documentary short The Barber of Birmingham, The Waiting Room (opening sequence), the Benjamin Bratt film La Mission, The Two Escobars, and Better This World. In addition, he wrote and produced the first ever Hip Hop songs for the television show Dora the Explorer.

Quincy co-founded and co-produced the Latin Hip-Hop band O-Maya, produced rapper Deuce Eclipse’s album Indigenous Noise, and is currently completing production of the premiere album for vocalist Luqman Frank.

Quincy graduated from Berkeley High School and majored in Anthropology with a minor in Music at University of California Santa Barbara. After graduating UCSB, he spent several years studying music at University of California Berkeley and California State University Hayward. Quincy’s musical style is a reflection of his multi-racial background. A deep love of African American genres, including Jazz and Hip Hop as well as the music of the African diaspora, have led him to an approach that often blends these seemingly disparate styles.

Lauretta Molitor works primarily as a location sound recordist for film and video. She first discovered her love of documentary in high school as an assistant editor and production assistant for KPBS in San Diego. It was there that she first experienced the joy of the collaborative process in making films that matter. A very small department enabled her to have hands-on training in lighting, sound, and editing on Emmy award-winning projects.

After stints as a student at San Francisco State University, and working at a rental house in San Francisco, she settled into a career in sound as a freelance recordist. Three decades later, she has gathered experience in all types of production including commercials, industrials, television, and day playing on narrative features ranging from Pacific Heights to Milk. Documentary remains her main vocation and passion.

Many projects with her credit have been nominated for or won Academy Awards amongst other kudos. She was personally nominated for an Emmy for Best Sound in Documentary for The Celluloid Closet. She has been fortunate to work with the most talented crew members and filmmakers in the rich film community of the Bay Area. In recent years she has also enjoyed mentoring younger directors and crew members. She serves as guest speaker in several educational settings including the UCSC Social Documentary program and the Graduate Documentary program at Stanford University.

Wynn Padula directed and shot the recent Netflix original documentary RESURFACE. Wynn is also well known for his cinematography on the film SLOMO, which was shortlisted for an Academy Award and the winner of Best Short Documentary at SXSW and IDA. He directed and shot television commercials, music videos and branded content videos for clients ranging from Adobe to HBO.

Wynn received his M.F.A. in Directing and Cinematography from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, where he had the opportunity to learn from Francis Ford Coppola, Roger Deakins and Janusz Kaminski. Later, Wynn worked in story development for Roger Corman and was a Visiting Professor in Screenwriting at UNC Chapel Hill.

Wynn unexpectedly passed away in 2021, during the production of The Secret Song, leaving behind his wife and new baby daughter. He is missed.

John Behrens is a self-taught director of photography based in the San Francisco Bay Area. John started with a Super-8 camera at 9; then onto Hi-8, and made films through high school as well as working in community theater. He got his first shot at 16, when a San Francisco based gaffer took him on as an apprentice. John now shoots documentary features, television documentaries, commercials, concert films, and he lives to shoot more. Working for everyone, from Metallica to Tesla Motors to Disney Pictures, Netflix, and most television or cable networks, Behrens feels his dyslexia makes constant challenges fun. He loves when directors ask him to figure out how to shoot what no one ever has before; and he lives to show the world things no one has ever seen. His recent documentary work includes: The Mask You Live In, Racing Extinction, Game Changers, The Upside of Downtime, The Social Dilemma, and How to Get Smart with Money.

Michele Spitz of Woman of Her Word is a media producer, voiceover artist, public speaker, consultant and longtime philanthropist most passionate about advocating for media accessibility and disability inclusion and awareness. Michele is dedicated to selectively funding audio description in-kind post production accessibility grants to ensure that media content is equally accessible to low vision and blind audiences. She has 9+ years experience of producing, narrating, consulting and project managing audio description assets for film, broadcast, digital media, film festivals, museums, exhibits, educational content, medical content, promotional and fundraising media. Woman of Her Word funds audio description production for a significant percentage of the 100+ hand selected media projects to date with which her company has chosen to be aligned. Michele promotes media accessibility awareness and audience inclusion through ongoing public speaking engagements, thought provoking panels and educational settings.