The Crew
Joshua Guerci
Director
Joshua has been making commercials and documentaries for 12 years in San Francisco. His past work includes The Gay Husbands of San Francisco, The Bride of Death and Italians of the Bay. He also contributed work to 50 Years of Fabulous, which has screened at the Frameline Film Festival.
Marc Smolowitz
Producer
Marc Smolowitz is a multi-award-winning independent filmmaker based in San Francisco. With three decades of experience in the film and media business, Smolowitz is a director, producer, and executive producer who has been significantly involved in 50+ successful independent films wearing many hats across the entertainment industry. The combined footprint of his works has touched 200+ film festivals and markets on 5 continents, yielding substantial worldwide sales to theatrical, television, and VOD outlets, notable box office receipts, and numerous awards and nominations. His long list of credits includes films that have screened at top-tier festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Venice, Chicago, SF FILM, Palm Springs, AFI Docs, IDFA, DOC NYC, CPH: DOX, Tokyo, Melbourne, Viennale, Krakow, Jerusalem, among others. In 2016, he received one of the prestigious IFP Fellowships to attend the Cannes Film Festival’s Producers Network and Marche du Film marking him as one of the USA’s most influential independent film producers
Jethro Patalinghug
Field Producer
Jethro is an award winning documentary filmmaker and producer, with over 12 years of experience in global television and corporate video production. His first feature documentary film, 50 Years of Fabulous, had its world premiere at the QDocs Film Festival in 2018 and is now touring the film festival circuit around the world.
Patrick Shaffer
Sound Mixer
Patrick is a passionate sound person, musician and artist with 8+ years of location sound experience. He has worked on many documentaries, television shows and narrative films, but is most proud of the time he and Steph Curry both agreed that his new wireless microphone system was super cool.
Marshall Potter
Field Producer
Marshall Potter is an experienced filmmaker and production sound mixer based in San Francisco. Over the last eleven years Marshall has traveled the world to work on the set of various film productions. Those projects include documentaries for Netflix, HBO, Google, and Facebook. His work has also been broadcasted on live TV for networks like Fox Sports, ESPN, NBC and PBS.
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