Creative Team
Rick Flynn | Director
Rick Flynn attempts to breaks down barriers of otherness through his documentaries, often using the social construct of the taboo as a vehicle for conveying universally relatable stories.
Rick’s first documentary, the provocative How Come?, was screened throughout Europe, and the Middle East, including TLV Fest (Israel), Luststreifen (Switzerland), PFFB (Berlin), La Fête du Slip (Switzerland), and Innuendo Festival (Italy, Best Short Documentary). He directed Allegiance: The Legacy (feat. George Takei) and Behind Bandstand (feat. Andy Blankenbuehler), both of which were distributed with international theatrical release. He directed Lynn Nottage: A Tribute, celebrating the William Inge Festival’s 2022 honoree, and most recently, in collaboration with The Carter Center, he directed Power Lines, which screened throughout the U.S. (incl. AmDocs, Art of Brooklyn, Capital City FF, CMIFF, Urban MediaMakers, Royal Starr, & Freedom Fest International).
Rick co-founded the commercial media company Rich Media Play, which is a member of the New York Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, where he directs documentary and commercial content for brands and nonprofits.
Rick began his documentary career with a master’s degree in Visual and Media Anthropology from Germany’s Freie Universität and is an alumnus of New York University. He is based in NYC and Berlin, Germany.
Spyros Patsouras | Executive Producer
Spyros Patsouras is a producer, curator and sales agent working across poetic documentary and independent cinema. His producing credits include the internationally acclaimed Avant-Drag! (IFFRotterdam 2024, dir. Fil Ieropoulos), How to Shoot a Ghost (Venice 2025, dir. Charlie Kaufman) and Uchronia (Berlinale 2026, dir. Fil Ieropoulos). He has collaborated with filmmaker-artists Shu Lea Cheang, Marianna Simnett, and Yannis Karpouzis, among others.
As a sales agent, his work has achieved over 100 international selections at prestigious events such as Sarajevo Film Festival, Raindance, Millennium Docs Against Gravity, Trieste Film Festival, and San Francisco Docs, among many others. He is a fellow of the Emerging Leaders Artivism Alliance (PLACE Network) and has collaborated with institutions including the EYE Filmmuseum (Netherlands) and the Royal Anthropological Institute (UK).
Spyros’ films have been distributed by Cinema Politica and Alexander Street Press and can be seen on a variety of platforms including FilmIn, TrueStory, and Dekkoo. He comes from a background of radically political filmmaking and holds a degree from the Athens University of Economics and Business. His work focuses on supporting formally ambitious and socially driven projects across cinema, contemporary art, and community-based exhibition contexts.
Chelsea Moore | Producer
Chelsea Moore (they/she) is a femme filmmaker and producer that strives to cultivate healing work and relationships with creators, participants, and audiences. Her producing work has screened at over 50 festivals internationally, including Tribeca, New Orleans Film Festival, Outfest, NewFest, Inside Out, & BFI Flare. Chelsea was a 2019 Sundance Feature Film Creative Producing Lab finalist, a producer on a 2019 Sundance Screenwriting Lab finalist, and a producer on a 2020 Sundance Documentary Fund finalist. Chelsea’s latest work, the animated short documentary Inner Wound Real was a 2021 Black Public Media 360 Incubator+ Fellow & Grantee. IWR world premiered at Tribeca 2022, screened at the NYC Department of Education’s Gender and Sexuality Alliance Summit & will be the opening film of AfroPop Digital Shorts 2023. The film has educational distribution through Good Docs & an impact campaign in collaboration with Level Forward.
In addition to their producing work, Chelsea is a Documentary Producers Alliance member and chair of the DPA Union Research sub-committee, a NewFest screening committee member, an evaluator for the NewFest Netflix Grant, & a Tribeca screening committee member for Documentary Features for 2023.
Mark Juergens | Editor
Mark Juergens has been a filmmaker in New York since 1982. His work as an editor has allowed him to stumble into documentary and feature films, music videos, episodic television and all sorts experimental video weirdness, as well as editing his daughter’s birthday videos.
Recently, he spent eight years as the Senior Series Editor for How Democracy Works Now, as well as editing six of these feature length films. Forbes called the series “The Greatest Films On Government Ever Made.”
Some of his projects have aired on HBO, Comedy Central , MTV, Bravo, A&E, Discovery, History Channel, MSNBC, Logo, Lifetime and PBS. Films he’s edited have screened at Sundance, the New York Film Festival, South by Southwest, DocNYC and Berlinale. Many have won awards and had theatrical distribution.
Timmi Oyen | Composer
Timmi Oyen is a composer and musician hailing from Lodi, Wisconsin and working in Brooklyn, New York. In addition to his catalog of experimental music projects such as miPhonemusic - music created entirely with iPhone apps, Oyen avidly scores films and web-series in his own emotive style. Some recent projects include scores to Woodland View Production's "Chicks on a Bench," screened at SXSW in 2013 and featured multiple times on Daily Motion, Christopher Bye's "Deep South," and Gotham Film Festival selection "Interviews" produced by Rick Flynn.
Alexandra Fyock | Director of Animation
Alex Fyock is a traditional 2D animator residing in Queens, New York. After earning a BFA in Digital Arts from Pratt Institute, she was offered the opportunity to influence the pandemic recovery effort by designing NYC’s “New York Tough” campaign. Since then, she has straddled the commercial and creative worlds. She animated the 2022 Super Bowl interviews with Ace & Son Moving Picture Co., and her portfolio of animated advertisements for brands and agencies includes PolyDor Records, Rich Media Play, and Ford Motor Company. She also works with StoryCorps on short- and feature-length animated films.
Thomas Pistor Eisenman | 1st Assistant Editor
Thomas Pistor Eisenman is a filmmaker originally from Los Angeles. He earned his BFA in Video Studies and Production from Bard College in 2019. He now lives in New York City, where he works as a freelance assistant editor and video editor, with a strong foundation in documentary and commercials. He also served as a post-production coordinator for a studio feature fiction film, deepening his understanding of the full post-production process. He has a deep love for film in all its aspects and is always eager to get involved on new and intriguing projects - whether they are his own or collaborations with others.
Carmen Molinar | Actress
Carmen Molinar is a German actress and voiceover artist living in Spain, Bremen, and Berlin. She began her career in the 1980s with "Diese Drombuschs" and the German five-part mini-series "Schulz & Schulz" as Mother Schulz. Having worked for many years as a freelance television editor and news reporter for SternTV, FitforFunTV, ZDF Brisant, and ZDF Moma, Molinar is now focusing once again on acting. Recent credits include "Der Mann von gestern" (ZDF), "Willkommen im Club" (SAT1- 2013), and "Der Weg nach San José" (ZDF 2014). Molinar recently won the Best Actress award at Filmfest Unterfranken for her performance in Isabelle Caps Kuhn's "Zwischstopp."
Samira Moyheddin | Cultural Advisor
Samira Mohyeddin is an award winning Iranian - Canadian journalist and broadcaster based in Toronto and founder of On The Line Media. For nearly a decade she was host and producer at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC Radio. Her audio documentary, Operation Good Times won Gold at the New York Festivals Award (2018) and best interview (2021). Samira has a Master of Arts in Gender and Modern Middle Eastern History from the University of Toronto (2007) and is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City (1997).