When My Sleeping Dragon Woke won Best Feature Documentary Premiere at the Heartland International Film Festival (2022), where Chuck (producer) and director William Garcia’s film A Day At A Time won Best Documentary (1993). When My Sleeping Dragon Woke was featured in the International Documentary Association’s DocuClub series (2020). In The Last Crop (2016), he explored an aging couple’s struggle to ensure their farm’s future in California’s Central Valley. Chuck was co-director/producer of 5 Days in July (2007) a dual-screen projection installation revisiting the 1967 Newark riots/rebellion. Exhibitions include Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ; Birmingham Civil Rights Institute; Debra Willis’ 1968: Then & Now, New York University Tisch School of the Arts (2008); and the Urban Research screenings at the Directors Lounge exhibition in Berlin (2010). It won Director’s Choice in the Black Maria Film Festival and Jury Award for Best Short at the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival. Chuck directed and produced Emmy-nominated screenwriter Tracey Scott Wilson’s NPR radio drama Five Days in July (2007) the PRX’s 2007 Zeitfunk Award winner. The Rural Studio (2001), an ITVS LiNKS co-production, chronicled architect Samuel Mockbee and his students’ work in Alabama’s Black Belt, aired on PBS and was exhibited in The Whitney Museum of American Art 2002 Biennial and Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture 2006. Grantors: ITVS, National Endowment for the Arts, New Jersey Council for the Humanities, and Alabama Humanities Alliance.

From art films to sports films and everything in between, Judah’s editing work has screened at Sundance and the New York Film Festival, on television and in theaters, and on pretty much any streaming platform you can think of. Highlights have been the art heist film The Art of the Steal, the sports comedy Winning Time, and the Emmy-winning series Axios on HBO. He’s currently editing on a limited documentary series for Apple+.

COLMAN and RAÚL DOMINGO
Executive Producers, Edith Productions

Edith is committed to producing, creating, and amplifying important and entertaining stories from diverse voices. In addition to When My Sleeping Dragon Woke, they produced the acclaimed shorts New Moon and North Star, which both qualified for Academy Awards consideration after a week-long run in Los Angeles.

DAVID D’AGOSTINO
Cinematography/Associate Producer

Artist, filmmaker, DP, editor, photographer, teacher, and handyman based in North Carolina. Raised in Pennsylvania, educated in Boston, and refined in the south. Recently wrapped up a feature documentary, Dixie Garden Drive, about the intersection of toxic masculinity and male tenderness on a rural dead-end road in the south. Alum Duke University’s MFA Experimental and Documentary Arts Program.

Ben’s work on documentary films ranges from Emmy winner Baring It All (Dir.: Patricia Zagarella) to Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (Molly Bernstein & Alan Edelstein), a Kino Lorber release, as well as Amsterdam Stories USA (Dirs.: Rob Rombout & Rogier van Eck), a 6-hour road movie of small-town America. He helped develop and shoot a web series for The Indian National Congress Party entitled Billion And One Voices, a collage of modern India. Ben shot such feature films as Lustre (Dir.: Art Jones) and Maki (Dir.: Naghmeh Shirkhan). Experimental work includes Shoja Azari’s Venice Biennale entry, The King of Black, and Shirin Neshat’s Games of Desire. Ben teaches cinematography at Montclair State University and has taught at DocNomads in Brussels.

ANASTASIA MAGLIORE WILLIAMS
Illustrator

Ana is a “kidlit” illustrator and author who deeply loves storytelling and colorful stylization. She enjoys bringing diverse and uplifting stories to life for the young and the young-at-heart. When not at work in her studio, she can be found devouring fantasy novels, gaming with her husband, and tending to her small rainforest of plants.

ZACHARY MEDOW
Animator

Zachary works as a colorist, animator, and visual effects artist. In 2018, Zachary was the animation director for the Animated Investigative Report: The Office of Missing Children. The project tells the story of a child separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border amidst the Trump administration. Throughout his career, he has seen multiple features and television shows through the finishing process. Some of his credits include The Bad Batch, Star Trek Beyond, and Hardcore Henry.

Mathis just completed his first national tour promoting his solo album, Live At The Museum, released in January 2022. As a composer, Mathis created a concerto for the Northern Chamber Orchestra (NCO), published by Real Book NW, and wrote the music for the Vimeo series The Weekend Detectives. He is a 2018 graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with Kenny Barron and received an Excellence in Musicianship and Leadership Award. He has shared the international stage with artists such as Patti Smith, Wynton Marsalis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Jason Moran, Ron Carter, and Lee Ritenour.

Kevin W.A. Wilson
Sound Designer/Mixer

In nearly three decades of working in the film and television industry, Kevin has worked on over 70 films and television programs in various professional capacities. A re-recording mixer at heart but also a creative, in 2002, Kevin wrote and directed his first short film, which he premiered in 2003 at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center. In 2009, he produced the award-winning documentary film A Bridge Life: Finding Our Way Home. Since 2009 Kevin has continued writing feature-length scripts, ultimately landing a literary agent in 2021. A member of The Producer’s Guild of America since 2016, Kevin lives in Beacon, NY, with his eight-year-old son.