Creative Team

Holly Lehren

Director, Producer, Editor

Holly Lehren is an award-winning student filmmaker at The New School, an Assistant Editor Intern for TASTE, an international food documentary series, and the former Artistic Associate at Luna Stage in West Orange, NJ. She graduated with honors in 2019 from Muhlenberg College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Theatre. She is a 2020 and 2021 Fulbright Scholarship Semi-Finalist for South Africa’s Open Study/Research Award to study documentary filmmaking in Cape Town, South Africa.

Kevin Sherwin

Composer

Kevin Sherwin is a composer, guitarist and conductor. His original work includes music for film, theater and the concert stage, including his recent solo guitar score for James Patrick Nelson’s “Without Touch,” which won the 2020 Audience Favorite Award in Dekkoo’s “Love and Distance Short Film Challenge.” In December 2019, he was a featured composer and lyricist in “The Passing Show of 2019,” produced by Unsung Musicals Co. at the Pershing Square Signature Center in New York City. His song, “How do you milk an almond?” satirized the national lawsuit between the FDA and the Blue Diamond Almond company. His performances have included concerts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the University of Cambridge and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others. To learn more, visit www.kevinsherwin.com

Michele Beck

Creative Consultant

Michele Beck is a visual artist who creates poetic combinations of video, performance, objects and sound. Her projects take the form of documentary, multi-channel audio/video installation and live performance. The form may change, but her interest in the body as a site for language and expression remains consistent.

My Erotic Body, her first feature-length documentary, won Best Short Doc at the NYC Chain Film Festival in 2017. Michele’s work has been shown at venues including the Kassler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest, Recontre Internationales, The ICA in London, Galerie Chez Valentin, The Bronx Museum, The Queens Museum and PS122. She is a recipient of grants from NYFA, NYSCA, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and multiple residencies at Yaddo and the Hermitage. She is a Professor in the Department of Media Studies and Film at The New School in New York City. To learn more, visit www.michelebeck.net/