Team

DIRECTOR / PRODUCER / CINEMATOGRAPHER

Sean Grasso is a cinematographer turned director/producer based in Oregon. In 2012, he began creating short film portraits of craftspeople, multiple of which were awarded a Vimeo Staff Pick. Over the last decade he’s worked as a documentary and commercial cinematographer around the world for numerous productions and Fortune 500 companies. In 2021, after a close encounter with California’s largest wildfire, he shifted his lens toward directing, focusing on the stories of America’s wild spaces and adjacent rural communities affected by climate change.

CO-PRODUCER

Jessie Sears, a proud member of the Karuk tribe, is a producer, cinematographer, and photographer based in Portland, Oregon. She has worked on numerous films focusing on Indigenous communities and environmental and social justice. She collaborated on the film Undamming Klamath, chronicling the Indigenous-led and largest river restoration in history. She is also a producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting under the science and environment team. She focuses on amplifying stories of Indigenous communities across the Pacific Northwest and Northern California.

EDITOR

Katherine Gorringe is an award-winning documentary editor whose work has appeared on Netflix, PBS, and at major film festivals worldwide. Most recently, she edited the PBS Independent Lens series MATTER OF MIND (Audience Award winner at SF IndieFest) and the acclaimed SXSW short CAMP WIDOW.

Her notable credits include co-editing the Emmy-nominated Netflix Original SAVING CAPITALISM. Her directorial debut, RED HEAVEN, premiered at SXSW and won the Big Sky Award at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. A former Sundance Edit Lab Contributing Editor, her work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, ITVS, Sandbox Films, and SFFILM. She holds an M.F.A. from Stanford University.