Juliana Penaranda-Loftus (Producer/ Co-Director) Juliana Penaranda-Loftus
began her career working in production for numerous primetime
television shows in Colombia. After completing her Bachelor’s degree, she
moved to the United States. She then completed her Masters in film and
video at American University in Washington, DC. After September 11, she
directed and produced a documentary about Aid Afghanistan, an
organization fighting for the right to educate women. She has also produced
three feature films and established her own production company, Hidden
Village Films with the purpose of producing film of social relevance. In
2012 she was one of 8 women selected by the American Film Institute for
their Directing Workshop for Women. Juliana plans to pursuit the
production of the political thriller film she has under development, after
completing the Landfill Harmonic documentary film.
Brad Allgood (Director/Editor/Director of Photography) Brad is an awardwinning
filmmaker with a background in international development and
public health. His films have taken him into the heart of the Nicaraguan
rainforest, as well as to remote Caribbean islands, the sparse Kalahari desert
and dense African jungles. While working for PBS Marketing and
Communications, he produced national campaigns for PBS programs
including the Emmy Award-winning series Downton Abbey and the
American Experience film Freedom Riders. Before transitioning to
filmmaking, Brad served for 3 ½ years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in
Nicaragua. He holds a M.A. in Film and Video Production from American
University and a B.S. in Biology and Geology from the University of
Georgia.
Graham Townsley (Director) Graham is an emmy-nominated director of
high-end documentaries for PBS, National Geographic and the Discovery
channel; films such as “Becoming Human”, a 3-part series on human
evolution for NOVA, “Dawn of the Maya”, “The Great Inca Rebellion”,
“King Solomon’s Mines”, “Magic Mountain”, “Maya Apocalypse” and
many more. He trained as an anthropologist and has a Ph.D from Cambridge
University. He went on to work in ethnographic films for the BBC such as
“The Shaman and his Apprentice” based on his own fieldwork with a tribe
of the Peruvian Amazon and “From the Heart of the World”, a film about the
Kogi Indians of the Sierra Nevada of Colombia. He lives in Washington DC.