Truth or Consequences
A speculative documentary about a small desert town, a spaceport, and the incredible people who live there.
Hannah Jayanti | director, producer, writer, editor, cinematographer, sound
Documentary filmmaker, organizer and educator. She’s dedicated to changing the way we listen to each other through the art of nonfiction. Her work has screened at the Smithsonian, Sheffield Doc | Fest, Dok Leipzig, Rotterdam, Tribeca Storyscapes, The New Yorker Festival, Museum of the Moving Image, UnionDocs, Camden International Film Festival, among others. Her work has been supported by Sundance Institute, Sundance Edit & Story Lab, Tribeca Film Institute, New York Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, The Knight Foundation, among others. Her organizing work includes co-creating spaces that model anti-capitalist practices while creating surprising futures, including Meteoric, a free and public art & film festival in Truth or Consequences NM, and IDD, a non-hierarchical and growing group of independent documentary directors. Her work as an educator is focused on free and low cost media training and literacy through community media centers and public access stations. More at www.hannahjayanti.com.
Sara Archambault | producer
Creative Producer dedicated to the craft of artful nonfiction storytelling. She has an extensive professional history in production, programming and foundation work, including 10 years as Program Director at the LEF Foundation, and 9 years as Head Programmer of award-winning documentary film series The DocYard. Past producing credits include Emmy-nominated documentary Traces of the Trade (Sundance, POV 2008), Sundance-supported Street Fighting Men (IFFBoston 2017), award-winning short Community Patrol (Big Sky, T/F 2018) and Truth or Consequences (Rotterdam 2020). Sara's work has received support from Tribeca Film Institute, Sundance Film Institute, SFFILM, Hot Docs International Pitch Forum, Film Independent, Stella Artois/Women in Film Finishing Fund and IFP Spotlight, among others. Sara was a 2013 Sundance Creative Producers Lab Fellow and sited among the "Ten to Watch" by The Independent. See more at www.archandbowfilms.com.
Alexander Porter | co-writer, vfx creative director, photogrammetry lead
Emmy award winning immersive director, digital artist and educator. Nominated for a Cinema Eye Honors Award for Alex Gibney’s Zero Days (Berlin, 2016), recent credits include The Changing Same VR (Sundance 2021), Blackout (Tribeca Storyscapes, 2017), Zero Days VR (Sundance, 2017), Love Child (Sundance, 2014), CLOUDS (Sundance, 2014). He is a co-founder of Scatter, an Emmy-award winning studio creating immersive films. He is the co-creator of the virtual and augmented reality creative tool, Depthkit, the most widely used software for Volumetric Filmmaking. Alexander has taught at NYU, spoken at MIT, Museum of Art & Design, Carnegie Museum of Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Eyebeam among others. More at www.alexanderporter.net.
Bill Frisell | composer
Grammy award-winning and thrice nominated guitarist and composer, whose career spans more than 35 years and 250 recordings. Frisell has collaborated with Paul Simon, Brian Eno, Paul Motian, John Zorn, Elvis Costello, Marianne Faithful, Van Dyke Parks, Lucinda Williams, Rickie Lee Jones, Ginger Baker, Loudon Wainwright III, Suzanne Vega, The Frankfurt Ballet, BCC Symphony Orchestra, The Los Angeles Philharmonic, among others. He’s scored numerous films and contributed to soundtracks including: Wim Wender’s Million Dollar Hotel, James Mangold’s Walk the Line, Bill Morrison’s The Great Flood, Gus Van Sant’s Finding Forrester, Rory Kennedy’s American Hollow. He created an original score for Truth or Consequences by improvising to the footage. More at www.billfrisell.com.
Maida Lynn | executive producer
Founder of Genuine Article Pictures, a production company that supports non-fiction filmmakers with unique visions who push the form into new directions. She executive produced The Send-Off (Sundance '16, SFIFF, SXSW, AFI Fest), and co-produced The Rabbit Hunt (Sundance '17 and Berlinale) and Roadside Attraction (TIFF, SXSW 2018). Maida is the producer of the short film Skip Day (2018), which premiered at the Directors' Fortnight and was released by The Guardian. Her credits as Executive Producer include Sam Green's live documentary, A Thousand Nights (Sundance 2017) and the The Hottest August (True/False 2019). The feature documentary Maida produced, Pahokee, premiered at Sundance 2019.
Scott Hirsch | post-production audio, re-recording mix, sound design
Sound designer, postproduction editor and mixer, musician, and audio engineer. His credits include: Toru (Sundance, 2017), Goat (Sundance, 2016), Entertainment (Sundance, 2014), Stand Clear of the Closing Doors (Tribeca Film Festival, 2013), The Comedy (Sundance, 2012), The Chair (Cannes, 2012), and the cult documentary Plagues & Pleasures of the Salton Sea. Scott is a member of HissGolden Messenger and in 2014, he engineered Alice Gerrard’s Follow the Music, which was nominated for a Grammy award for best folk record. He released a solo record, Blue Rider Songs in 2016. He is an adjunct professor at NYU’s Music Technology department. More at www.echo-magic.com.
Anne Yao | assistant editor, archival researcher, post-production supervisor, additional vhx
Film editor interested in exploring the emotional landscape of humanity. Anne was inspired to work in film after watching the films of Abbas Kiarostami, Wong Kar Wai, and John Cassavetes. She has been on a journey to discover the soul of each film every step of the way alongside kindred spirits. Anne is a 2020 Sundance Institute Art of Editing fellow and a 2019 Diversity in the Edit Room mentee in the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship. She has extensive experience on feature length documentaries, narratives, and television docuseries. She was the associate editor of Valiant (2019) and Dead Pigs (2018). She was the first assistant editor on Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018) and Where to Invade Next (2015) and assistant editor on Netflix’s A Secret Love (2020) and HBO’s The Case Against Adnan Syed (2019). She participated in the Abbas Kiarostami Master Class at Hunter College where she graduated in 2007.
Mary Lampson | consulting editor
Award-winning independent documentary filmmaker and editor. Lampson co-edited the Academy Award–winning classic Harlan County, USA. She has worked with Barbara Kopple, Emile de Antonio, Ricky Leacock, D.A. Pennebaker, among others. She produced and directed Until She Talks, a 40-minute dramatic film that aired on PBS American Playhouse, and 25 short live-action films for Sesame Street. Recent projects include: Crip Camp (Sundance 2020), Midnight Family (Sundance, 2019), Generational Wealth (Sundance, 2018), This Changes Everything (TIFF, 2018), Eating Animals (Telluride, 2017), The Islands and the Whales (Hot Docs, 2016), The Bad Kids (Sundance, 2016), Queen of Versailles (Sundance, 2012), Kimjonglilia (Sundance, 2009), Trouble the Water (Sundance, 2008). She has been a fellow and advisor at the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Editing and Story Lab and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Claire Hentschker | additional visual effects creative direction & photogrammetry reconstruction
Digital artist who uses photogrammetry and immersive technology as a way of memorializing fleeting moments in time. Distancing her work from photorealism, Hentschker embraces the digital artifacts that result from an attempt to preserve and synthesize memories of spaces that no longer exist. Her work becomes a virtual tour through a new, bizarre, and abstract archive of polygons that give shape to something that is missing, built from what it has left behind. In addition to a solo show at Suzie Shride in Austria, her work has been presented at the Fotomuseum Winterthur, the Carnegie Museum of Art, MUTEK, Art && Code: Weird Reality among others. More at www.clairesophie.com.
Elliott Mitchell | visual effects & virtual production technical director
Artist and engineer whose passion is the exploration of dreams, the collective consciousness, and technology. Elliott’s 25 years of work traverses filmmaking, virtual reality and game development. His recent credits include: A Last Supper (NY Fashion Week, 2019), The Hillman Project: Styles and Customs of the 2020s (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2017), The Leviathan Project (Sundance & Vision Summit 2016), Björk Digital (2015). In addition to volumetric filmmaking and VR art installations, Elliott has worked on dozens of video games & interactive museum exhibits. His indie game, Waggle Words, reached the number 3 spot for Paid Word Games on the App Store. Elliott is the co-founder of both Vermont Digital Arts and The Boston Unity Group. Elliott frequently speaks at internationally renowned game developer conferences including Unite, GDC and Pax East. More at www.vermontdigitalarts.com.
