AMANDA KOWALSKI
Director/Cinematographer
West Virginia native, Amanda Kowalski (Forge Photography and Film) is a cinematographer, director, and editor with a background in documentary photography. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, NPR.org, CBS Sunday Morning, National Geographic Online, and Discovery among others. Some of her clients have included Yo-Yo Ma's Silkroad Ensemble, MIT, Harvard University, the American Psychological Association, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Amanda is also an established musician. Prior to her career in photography and film she worked with many notable performers including Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn and co-founded the Grammy-nominated band, Della Mae.
SAMANTHA BROUN
Producer
Samantha Broun is a Massachusetts-based filmmaker and radio journalist and a 2021 Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University. For the past 14 years, she served as managing editor for Atlantic Public Media’s Transom.org, which channels new work, voices and ideas into public media. Broun’s radio work focuses on the personal and political impact of violent crime. Her documentary, A Life Sentence: Victims, Offenders, Justice And My Mother was honored with a 2016 Third Coast International Audio Festival Silver Award and a 2017 Dart Award, and was a finalist for a Peabody Award. Her two-part radio documentary, Living With Murder. She has produced and directed short films for organizations like NPR, Yo-Yo Ma’s Silkroad Ensemble, and Massachusetts General Hospital.