THE TEAM

Audrey Daniel - Director/Producer/Founder

Audrey Daniel is a filmmaker who began her career in the mid-1980s, documenting the Los Angeles "Arte Povera" and performance art scenes, working closely with icons like Rachel Rosenthal. After a decade focused on fine art and commercial photography, Audrey returned to filmmaking in 1998, trading her Hasselblad for a video camera to capture the creative process of influential artists. Her extensive filmography includes titles such as Fields of Color, Albert Paley: Thresholds, and Rock Paper Paint: Art of the People, with a sequel currently in production.

George Nelson - Producer

George Nelson is an artist, designer, and filmmaker based in San Francisco. He is a creative in traditional and digital mediums, producing work through an LGBT and Asian American perspective. George has directed and animated short films since 2020, including With Me and Another Pack, and is currently working on his latest animation, Right Kind of Beat. His outlook is, "There are joys of tomorrow we've yet to fathom," and he is an active collaborator and producer in the Bay Area.

Katrina De Vera - Editor

Katrina De Vera is a Filipino-American documentary editor who was born and raised in South Texas to immigrant parents. She edited Who We Become which is distributed by ARRAY Releasing and is currently streaming on Netflix. Other work includes the intimate political portrait A Run for More (PBS, Reel South 2023 Series) and the short film Bring Them Home (The Washington Post). Katrina is a 2022 Karen Schmeer Editing Fellow. She is drawn to character-driven narratives, and will always have a soft spot for stories that feel close to home.

Derrick Scocchera - Editor

Derrick Scocchera is a multidisciplinary director, screenwriter, and painter known for co-founding the premier DVD label, Fantoma Films, which produced special editions of works by masters like Fritz Lang and Francis Ford Coppola. His directorial credits include the Stephen Fry-narrated It’s Always Something and A Perfect Place, a film scored by Mike Patton and profiled in American Cinematographer. Beyond the screen, Scocchera is an accomplished artist whose paintings are held in global collections, and he recently directed the "disturbing" music video for Mr. Bungle’s first new album in 20 years.

Jeff Jacoby - Sound Designer

Jacoby practices sound art and design, radio production, directing, producing, writing, and performing, and happily serves as associate professor of Audio & Radio in the Department of Broadcast & Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University. He has served on the faculty of Quinnipiac University, Real Art Ways, The Media Arts Center, and the National Radio Project. Current projects include Into Sonic Space (sound art installations), The Traveling Radio Show (creative radio program), and collaborations with artists working in a variety of mediums. His work has been heard on PBS, NPR, and commercial radio, at art festivals including South by Southwest, Black Maria, Festival du Cinéma de Paris, and ASIFA East, and in galleries across the country.

Renso Landa - Sound Recordist

Renso is a two-time Emmy-winning audio engineer, sound designer, and production sound mixer with over a decade of experience in film, television, live performance, and digital media. His work spans production sound, post-production editing, sound design, and re-recording mixing for documentaries, independent films, corporate media, and live-streamed performances. Renso has collaborated with organizations including the San Francisco Giants, Salesforce, Microsoft, NVIDIA, REDF, Gap Inc., and numerous independent filmmakers and nonprofits. He has recorded, mixed, and produced content for over 120 live classical chamber music performances, bringing high-quality concert broadcasts to online audiences. Hired to build a live-streaming system from the ground up, he developed the technical workflow and assembled a small production team. Renso handled the live audio mix and all post-production audio and video editing, excluding color grading. He is known for his technical expertise and collaborative approach to crafting sound that enhances storytelling.

Anaís Azul - Score

Anaís Azul (they/them) is a Peruvian-born, California-raised composer, charango player, vocalist, and educator whose work bridges ancestral roots and avant-garde experimentation. A Fulbright Scholar dubbed "the Peruvian Björk" (Bay Times), they hold a B.M. in Music Composition and Theory from Boston University, an MFA from CalArts, and are currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Digital Composition at UC Riverside. Their debut album Simp’ashani: Canciones Trenzadas (2024), created during their Fulbright research in Perú, weaves trilingual soundscapes (Quechua, English, Spanish)—from experimental Andean reinterpretations to intimate singer-songwriter meditations on migration, queerness, and resilience. Notably, Anaís is a co-star in the season finale of Apple TV show “Pluribus” (2025) where they sing their arrangement of a traditional work song in Quechua.

Alex Guerin Schliem - Camera Operator/Production Assistant

Alex is a filmmaker and photographer currently based in San Francisco, CA. When not directing music videos and commercials for bands such as Thee Sacred Souls and Jensine Benetiz, Alex works as a camera operator, editor, and producer on sets ranging from documentaries to branded content.