Dawn Dreyer, Director/Producer

For the past two decades, Dawn Dreyer has worked as a writer, mixed-media documentary maker, teacher, and advocate, embracing the challenges and joys of sustained collaboration as essential to her creative practice. In 2005, Dawn produced the radio story, The Three Furies: Poverty, Addiction, and Mental Illness, about the women she met while teaching writing at a residential treatment center in Durham, North Carolina. In the piece, heard by thousands of listeners on WUNC and NPR stations across the country, she spoke openly about her own experiences with mental illness.

She is currently producing and directing the feature-length animated documentary Bipolar Girl Rules the World. Fear is both a stand-alone short film and one of the stories that make up this feature. The film was presented as a work-in-progress at the Cucalorus Film Festival (2013) and Alice Fest (2013, 2015). Dawn also includes selections from the film in her performance documentary, Listen/Speak, which she has presented at conferences on mental illness, universities, and art therapy programs (2014-16).

Since 2000, Dawn has been deeply involved with the Durham documentary community, supporting and promoting the work of both professional and emerging artists. Dawn coordinated public events and directed the Certificate in Documentary Arts program at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, home of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (2000-07). She served as the founding chair of the Southern Documentary Fund’s board (2002-07). Dawn left Duke to accept a nine-month arts residency at Pendle Hill, near Philadelphia. When she returned to Durham, she founded Cracked Window Studios. Dawn consults on a variety of projects, most notably as assistant producer on the Emmy-nominated documentary Private Violence (Sundance 2014/HBO).

Andrea Love, Director/Animator

Andrea Love is a freelance animator and artist living in Port Townsend, Washington, where she is well known for her folky animations about farming and woodworking. Local demand for her unique brand of storytelling has propelled what was initially a side hustle into a full-time business. Originally from Durham, North Carolina, Love graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Hampshire College in 2010, concentrating in film studies and sustainable agriculture. Her passion for both film and visual arts led her down the road of animation, where she discovered a particular passion for animated documentaries. With a steadfast commitment to traditional hand crafts, Love fuses numerous self-taught techniques including frame-by-frame stop-motion and hand-drawn animation. Her work has been screened in a diverse range of venues from local fundraisers to the North Carolina Museum of Art. See more of Andrea’s work at her website.

Eric Andrew Kuhn, Music

Eric Andrew Kuhn is a multi-instrumentalist (drums, guitar, piano, bass, assorted keys and percussion), composer and producer currently based in Durham, North Carolina and Oakland, California. He records and performs with Eric and Erica and Michael Musika; composes original music for film, video, advertising and dance; runs; and drinks too much coffee. Past musical groups and collaborators include Silian Rail, Sean Hayes, B. Hamilton and Thao with the Get Down Stay Down. He has been playing, recording and touring since he was too young to be allowed in the places he was playing.  Learn more on his website or listen on Soundcloud.

Credits

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Jasmine Woodyard Bowles
CONSULTING PRODUCER: Bebe Smith, MSW, LCSW
ASSISTANT STORY EDITOR: Jenny Morgan
POST PRODUCTION SERVICES: Trailblazer Studios