Jacob, Lolly, Moding, & Austin,
Country (of production): Kenya
Years (of production): 2019-2020
Duration: 93 min
Rating: PG
Genre: Documentary
Language: Swahili, English, Samburu
Subtitles: English
Production Company: One Story Up, Indikate Productions,
Projectorbeam
Locations (filming): Laikipia County, Kenya
Producers: Roger Ross Williams, Kate Garwood, Jochen Zeitz
Executive Producers: Geoff Martz, Marcy McCall MacBain
A Film by: Austin Peck
2nd Camera: Mike “Lolly” Munyore
Samburu Ritual Advisor: Jacob Olerisin
Montage: Austin Peck
Assistant Editor & Maa Translations: Moding Karemi
Color: Stewart Griffin, Anthony Campagna, Final Frame
Music: Johan Hugo and Jacob Vetter
Production Sound: Austin Peck
Post-Production Sound Mix: Erik Lohr
Artwork: Daniel N. Johnson
Sales Agent: Josh Braun, Submarine
Contacts: austin@projectorbeam.com
Roger Ross Williams - Producer
The first African-American director to win an Academy Award, Williams has directed a number of acclaimed films including Life, Animated, which won the Sundance Film Festival Directing Award, was nominated for an Academy Award ® and won three Emmys in 2018, including the award for Best Documentary.
He also directed God Loves Uganda, which was shortlisted for an Academy Award ®, and American Jail, which examined the U.S. prison system and premiered on CNN.
Williams’ Traveling While Black , a VR documentary made for Facebook’s Oculus, premiered at Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy and won a Webby Award.
His film The Apollo, a documentary about Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater, was the opening night film of the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and won the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Documentary. He recently directed three hours of The Innocence Files, which premiered on Netflix in their top ten.
Kate Garwood - Producer
Born in London, Kate Garwood has spent the last 20 years in the USA producing genre-defining television, film and documentary content. Launching her career on blockbuster TV series’ like 24, Traffic, and the Emmy and Golden Globe winning The Life and Death of Peter Sellers for HBO films, starring Geoffrey Rush and Charlize Theron, which premiered at Cannes. She also worked as a Producer on Californication starring David Duchovny, and House of Lies starring Don Cheadle and Kristen Bell. In the documentary world, Kate produced the doc series Driving Force and Las Vegas Garden of Love for A&E, as well as the Pablo Escobar doc feature Pablo’s Hippos for BBC Films. In 2015 Kate Garwood founded Indikate Productions and developed and produced the feature films RACE, the real-life story of legendary African-American athlete Jesse Owens and the 1936 Nazi Olympics, starring Stefan James, Jeremy Irons and William Hurt, released by Focus Features in 2016, and Seberg, the true story of American actress Jean Seberg and her relationship with the Black Panther party set in 1969, starring Kristen Stewart and Anthony Mackie, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, the Toronto Film Festival and London BFI in 2019, released by Amazon Studios in 2020. Most recently, Indikate produced and released in partnership with Netflix and Silverback Productions, Breaking Boundaries with Sir David Attenborough, an acclaimed climate-impact documentary feature, which was screened at President Biden’s Climate Summit in 2021.
Austin James Peck - Director
Peck is a Nairobi-based film director whose works include the feature-length documentary film Gardeners of Eden - about Kenya’s David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and their fight against the ivory trade. (Netflix, 2015 Peabody Award Nominee, Audience Choice Award -Mill Valley Film Festival, Director’s Award - Sedona Film Festival. Acquired and released by Pivot/Participant Media (US television), NatGeo. Executive Producers Kristin Davis (Sex and the City) and Bryn Mooser (RYOT/XTR). Peck’s first feature-length documentary Tough Bond, a story about the gritty underworld of children coming from Kenya's northern pastoralist tribes to live on Nairobi's streets, premiered in 2012 in competition at Berlinale (Berlin, Germany), with a North American premiere in competition at HotDocs (Toronto, Canada).
More recently, Peck directed an 11-episode investigative news series in virtual reality titled The Big Picture (Huffington Post, Google and Hulu), featuring stories from occupied-Palestine, Standing Rock, and anti-recidivism programs in California State Prisons. In 2016 and 2017, Peck directed a 6-hour investigative documentary series for KTV Kenya on police corruption, (Winner, Journalists of the Award, Kenya, 2017).
Between 2014-2017, Peck also served as East Africa program director for the covert human rights organization, Videre Est Credere, providing training and support to activists to record and publish video evidence of the human rights violations they face. Multi-year projects included short film-based media campaigns against persecution of Kenya's queer community and national sensitization campaigns for Al Shabab defectors attempting to return to their families.