Amanda Micheli
Director

Micheli is an award-winning filmmaker with a solid background as both a director and a cinematographer. She shot, edited and directed Just for the Ride, a documentary about cowgirls on the women’s Pro Rodeo circuit, which won an Academy Award and International Documentary Association Award in student categories and premiered on the PBS series P.O.V. in 1996. Since then she has shot a Sundance Award-winning documentary, My Flesh and Blood (HBO) and an Emmy-nominated film in Cambodia, The Flute Player (PBS). She also shot a film in Ghana, Witches in Exile, which won the special jury prize at South by Southwest. Most recently, Micheli shot and produced an HBO documentary directed by photographer Lauren Greenfield and an episode for Morgan Spurlock’s series, 30 Days. Other production credits include: You’re Gonna Miss Me, Same River Twice (Sundance 2003), and the ITVS series Girls in America. A graduate of Harvard University, Micheli has also been a member of the top U.S. women’s rugby team for over a decade.

Karen Johnson
Producer

Johnson is an independent producer of documentary and fiction features. She is particularly drawn to subjects about women and women’s history. Her credits include the dramatic feature Prospect, adapted from the play and directed by acclaimed playwright Octavio Solis; the romantic comedy Twice Upon A Yesterday starring Penelope Cruz; and the Hollywood satire Hip! Edgy! Quirky! starring Joan Rivers and Phyllis Diller. She is currently working on two feature films: The Polka Dot Princess, a documentary about the avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, and Life? or Theatre?, the dramatic true story of the young German Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon, directed by Paul Morrison, the writer/director of the Oscar-nominated film Salomon and Gaenor. She is also developing the reality series Nerd Girls, about a team of female engineering students from Boston-area universities who spend their summer break building a solar car. Johnson is an attorney and a graduate of USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program.

Danielle Renfrew
Producer

Renfrew is an accomplished independent producer with credits ranging from grassroots documentaries to major motion pictures. She produced the independent feature film Groove, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2000 and was distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. Soon after, she formed Map Point Pictures with Groove director Greg Harrison. Through Map Point, she produced November, a thriller starring Courteney Cox and James Le Gros for IFC and InDigEnt, and DOUBLE DARE. November premiered in competition at Sundance 2004 where it won the award for best cinematography. Renfrew is currently in post-production on Katrina Holden Bronson’s feature directorial debut Daltry Calhoun for Quentin Tarantino’s L. Driver Productions and Miramax. The film stars Johnny Knoxville, Juliette Lewis and Elizabeth Banks. This year, she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Awards' Bravo/American Express Producers Award.

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