Meet the filmmakers
Director / Producer / DP
CADY VOGE is a filmmaker and journalist specializing in character-driven, longform, and vérité storytelling. All We Carry is Cady’s feature directorial debut. Her other directorial credits include two short films, El Cristo Negro (2019) and Ballet In El Salvador is Alcira Alonso (2019). As a filmmaker, she has shot, produced, and directed short films for NBC, The New Humanitarian, and other media outlets across the Americas. She is currently in pre-production on her next feature documentary, which examines OB/GYN Meg Autry's quest to launch a reproductive health clinic in federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico. In 2022, Cady was selected as a WIF/Sundance Financing Intensive fellow as well as a Film Independent Fast Track fellow.
As a journalist, Cady contributes to outlets including the BBC, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and Wired, among others. Based in Colombia from 2015–2020, she has covered topics as diverse as cryptocurrency in Venezuela, the aftermath of Colombia’s historic peace deal, reproductive health in Utah, and a Syrian restaurateur in the heart of Bogotá, but most of her reporting falls under the larger topic of migration. Cady met the participants of her debut feature documentary, All We Carry, while covering the migrant caravan in Mexico in 2018, for which her reporting was nominated for an Eppy. She has been an International Women’s Media Foundation fellow and grantee, she is an alum of the Dart Center’s Reporting Safely in Crisis Zones course, and she was selected for UNHCR's master class on forced displacement in Central America.
Before becoming a full-time storyteller, Cady directed an international peace education nonprofit organization for five years, which brought her all over the world while conducting facilitator trainings for college students.
Editor / Co-producer
RACHEL CLARA REED is a mixed-race Chinese-American documentary filmmaker interested in the intersections of identity, displacement, resilience, grief, personal history and culture.
After editing and co-producing All We Carry, she went on to edit and co-write the feature documentary Music for Mushrooms, a collaboration with music artist East Forest and a story about the power of music, plant medicine, and ceremony in personal healing. A third feature documentary she edited, #adoption, which investigates coercion and lawlessness in the world of domestic infant adoption in the U.S., is currently in post and due to premiere this year. Her directorial credits include her short film, Somali Night Fever, published with The Guardian and shot in Somaliland, Kenya, and Sweden, which tells the story of Somalia’s golden era of music through the stories of two former bandmates and best friends who lost touch during the country’s civil war. It was long-listed and given a special mention at the 2020 One World Media Awards, and has over one million views. She has published with outlets including the BBC, The New York Times, CNN, and Al Jazeera English, following a group of Indigenous roller derby players fighting to decolonize the sport, activists keeping Afro-Mexican culture in Veracruz alive, and sand wars in Kenya.
Rachel is also a trained death doula and accredited conflict resolution facilitator and hosts death dinners—facilitated gatherings exploring our personal relationships with mortality—from her home in London, UK.
Producer
LAURA PILLONI is a filmmaker who works towards the representation of marginalized stories. She was the associate producer for the women and human rights documentary Home Truth, which premiered at the 2017 Human Rights Watch Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS the following year. She went on to associate produce Chavela (Berlinale, Hot Docs 2017) and was a co-producer on Lift (Tribeca 2022, Paramount Pictures). She was a producer on activist Elle Moxley’s short documentary Black Beauty (Blackstar, Outfest 2022) and the Senior Associate Producer for Carla Gutierrez’ feature-length documentary FRIDA (Sundance, Hot Docs 2024). Keeping in line with these impactful films, she was a producer for All We Carry (Palm Springs Film Festival 2024), a feature documentary about a Honduran family seeking asylum in the U.S.
In 2022, she was a fellow for Film Independent’s Fast Track Film Finance Market, as well as for the WIF/Sundance Institute Financing Intensive. She is a proud member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia.
Producer
LAURA TATHM is a creative producer committed to telling stories that highlight urgent social justice issues. She most recently produced WTO/99, an all-archival feature documentary that premiered at True/False Film Festival (‘25). In 2024, she produced All We Carry, the Indie Award–winning (Best Documentary) feature. All We Carry premiered at the Palm Springs International Film Festival (‘24), was awarded an impact grant from Subject Matter, and won top honors at numerous film festivals, including the Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights (Full Frame ‘24). In 2022, Laura produced Mama Bears, which premiered in competition at SXSW and went on to screen in 80+ film festivals worldwide. Mama Bears was a co-production of ITVS and had its broadcast debut on Independent Lens in 2023.
In 2024 Laura was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship by Jersey City. In 2022 she was selected for DOC NYC’s “40 Under 40” list. She has also been a fellow of the Film Independent Documentary Lab (‘20) and the WIF/Sundance Institute Financing Intensive (‘20 + ‘22). In the past decade Laura has worked on numerous award-winning films and is currently working on several new projects in production.
Executive Producer
AMERICA FERRERA is an Emmy® -, Golden Globe®-, and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning actress, as well as a director, producer and activist. She currently stars in Greta Gerwig’s record breaking film, BARBIE, and Craig Gillespie’s DUMB MONEY. Subsequently, she is set to make her feature directorial debut with I AM NOT YOUR PERFECT MEXICAN DAUGHTER, an adaptation of Erika Sánchez’s best-selling novel. Ferrera continues to serve as the face of Covergirl’s first vegan collection, “Fresh Clean Skincare”. A longtime activist, Ferrera co-founded Harness, a community of artists, influencers and grassroots leaders leveraging art and storytelling to power change and create a more equitable world. She also leads a digital lifestyle community and non-profit organization alongside Eva Longoria Bastón, called Poderistas, built to celebrate Latina culture and harness the power of community.
Executive Producer
MICHAEL SKOLNIK is a founding partner of The Soze Agency, a creative agency that works with companies, nonprofit organizations, and movements to create campaigns rooted in compassion, authenticity and equity. Michael’s profile in the The New York Times identified him as "the man you go to if you want to leverage the power of celebrity and the reach of digital media to soften the ground for social change." Prior to that, he spent over a decade as a film director and producer. Michael serves on the Board of Directors for Rock The Vote, The Trayvon Martin Foundation, The Gathering For Justice, and The Young Partners Board of The Public Theater. Michael Skolnik is the proud father to Mateo Ali.
Executive Producer
RYAN PIERS WILLIAMS is a graduate of the film school at the University of Southern California, married with two young children, and lives in New York City, where he is a writer, filmmaker, artist, and activist. Williams has written and directed two feature films, The Dry Land and X/Y, and has completed several yet-to-be-produced scripts. Along with his wife, America Ferrera, and Wilmer Valederrama, he is a co-founder of a nonprofit called Harness, a community of influential artists, activists, and industry leaders who believe that storytelling shapes our world. As a community, Harness educates, inspires, and takes actions to create a more just world.
KATHRYN M. MOSELEY
Original Music
ALEJANDRO STAROSIESLKI
EZEQUIEL TARICA
Consulting Producer
DAWN VALADEZ produced and co-directed The Pushouts (2018) and produced and directed Going on 13 (2008). Her films have been supported by numerous funders including the Ford Foundation, Sundance Doc Fund, CalHumanities, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Latino Public Broadcasting. Dawn is a recipient of the See It, Be It Filmmaker Fellowhip from the Geena Davis Bentonville Film Foundation. Dawn is the Director of Youth and Emerging Media Maker Programs at the Bay Area Video Coalition. She is in production on a number of projects. She lives in Oakland.
Consulting Producer
RACHEL LEARS is a documentary director, producer, and cinematographer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her most recent feature documentary, To The End, premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Her least feature, Knock Down the House (Netflix), follows four women who ran insurgent congressional campaigns in 2018, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush. The film won an audience award and the Festival Favorite award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, was shortlisted for an Oscar, and nominated for an Emmy in 2020. The Hand That Feeds (co-directed with Robin Blotnick; PBS), won numerous festival awards and was nominated for an Emmy in 2017.
Executive Producer
Consulting Editor
TOBY SHIMIN began editing in 1988 when she cut the Academy Award-nominated The Children’s Storefront. Since then, she has edited numerous films that have premiered at Sundance, including the Peabody Award-winning How to Dance in Ohio, and the Sundance Audience Award-winning films, Out of the Past, This is Home, (Emmy nomination), and Buck (short-listed for an Academy Award). Toby received the prestigious Documentary Editing Award at the Woodstock Film Festival for HBO’s 32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide. Her most recent film, Ernie & Joe won a Jury Prize at SXSW where it premiered. Toby serves as a mentor for the Edit and Story lab at the Sundance Institute.
