THE STORIES
Emily is a hard working, ambitious high school student who dreams of attending college in New York.
A rare degenerative genetic disorder brought her to the Miami Lighthouse where she is learning the vital skills for the visually impaired before her genetic disorder completely takes away her vision.
Joey is a multi-talented college student, aiming to land in the world of finance once he graduates.
As he prepares to leave his home of Miami for grad school, his guide dog falls ill.
LuHanna is a cheerful and energetic middle-schooler who loves playing with her siblings and chatting with her friend Diandre from the Miami Lighthouse.
When the pandemic keeps her best friend at home, Luhanna must learn to overcome her shyness and advocate for herself before entering high school.
CREW
Deborah Dickson - Director/Producer
Deborah Dickson is a non-fiction filmmaker and three-time Academy Award nominee whose over thirty documentary films have premiered at Sundance, Berlin and many other film festivals and have been awarded Emmys, the DuPont-Columbia Award, the Peabody Award and Ace awards.
"Ruthie & Connie: Every Room in the House" premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2001 and won over 12 awards at festivals worldwide. "The Education of Gore Vidal" premiered at Sundance in 2002.
Dickson collaborated with Susan Froemke and Maysles Films on eight award-winning films—from "Christo in Paris"to "Lalee's Kin", which premiered at Sundance in 2000. "Lalee's Kin" was nominated for an Academy Award and a Spirit Award and won an Alfred I. DuPont Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2004.
Michael Beuttler - Producer
Michael Beuttler is a documentary producer, director, and editor at Simon + Film, whose work has aired on PBS, Hulu, Apple, Starz, and more. Michael got his start working as an associate producer under Academy Award winner Kirk Simon on countless short films and the feature documentary “The Pulitzer at 100” (2016). He worked with Susan Froemke on PBS’s “American Masters - Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is”(2020) and co-produced and edited the feature documentary “You Can’t Kill Meme” (2021).
Ann Collins - Editor
Ann Collins is a New York based documentary film editor
who was nominated for an American Cinema Editor’s Eddie award for her work on Griffin Dunne’s “Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold” which premiered at the 2017 New York Film. Prior to that, she co-produced and edited “Swim Team,” an independent documentary which has won
numerous awards and premiered on PBS’s POV series.
Other credits include the documentaries “Belly Talkers”, “The Charcoal People”, and “Sound and Fury”, all of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival before receiving theatrical and television distribution. “Sound and Fury” was nominated for an Academy Award. For television, she edited “Frontline: Merchants of Cool“ and “Porgy & Bess: An American Voice” as well as productions for Martha Stewart, MTV, Lifetime, CBS, and PBS.
Bob Richman - Cinematographer
Cinematographer Bob Richman began his film career working with vérité pioneers Albert and David Maysles, quickly transitioning from production assistant to camera assistant then operator. Finally he made the leap to director of photography on the Maysles’ "Umbrellas," which chronicled artist Christo’s installation of three thousand umbrellas north of Los Angeles and Tokyo.
Today, Richman is an Emmy-nominated and Sundance award-winning cinematographer on almost a hundred documentaries including: Davis Guggenheim’s "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Waiting for Superman," Nathaniel Kahn’s "My Architect," Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s HBO films "Paradise Lost" 1, 2 & 3 and "Metallica: Some Kinda Monster," RJ Cutler’s "The September Issue," "Oprah’s Master Class" and Sundance Channel’s "Iconoclasts."
Christopher Tin & Alex Williamson - Original Score
Christopher Tin is a two-time Grammy-winning composer. His music has been performed and premiered in many of the world's most prestigious venues--Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the United Nations--and by ensembles diverse as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Metropole Orkest, and US Air Force Band. His song "Baba Yetu", originally written for the video game Civilization IV, holds the distinction of being the first piece of music written for a video game ever to win a Grammy Award. He is signed to an exclusive record deal with Universal under their legendary Decca label, published by Concord and Boosey & Hawkes, and is a Yamaha Artist. He works out of his own custom-built studio in Santa Monica, CA.
Alex Williamson is a composer, producer, and arranger for film, TV, and games. His work in film includes scores for the political documentaries Freedom For The Wolf and Price Wars and the upcoming South African drama Snake. In collaboration with Christopher Tin he has contributed to scores for such games as PGA Tour 2K23, Civilization VI, and the Grammy-nominated Old World. Most recently, his work for the popular NetEase title Fantasy Westward Journey earned him a Hollywood Media in Music Awards nomination.
CONTACT
SIMON + FILM is an independent documentary production company located in New York City.
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