Creative Team
Rick Flynn | Director
Documentary director Rick Flynn has a passion for pushing boundaries. He uses the construct of the social taboo as a vehicle for conveying universally relatable stories through a novel lens.
Rick’s first documentary, the provocative How Come?, was awarded Best Short Documentary at Italy’s Innuendo Festival in 2017 and was featured at TLV Fest (Israel), Luststreifen (Switzerland), PFFB (Berlin), and La Fête du Slip (Switzerland). He directed Allegiance: Beyond Broadway (featuring George Takei) and Behind Bandstand (featuring Andy Blankenbuehler), both of which received theatrical distribution. He directed Lynn Nottage: A Tribute, celebrating the William Inge Festival’s 2022 honoree, and in collaboration with The Carter Center, he directed the forthcoming piece, Power Lines, about Michigan’s landmark passage of an amendment that ended gerrymandering in the state.
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 including the Biden Foundation, the Michael J. Fox Foundation, American Express, theSkimm, and Tom’s of Maine.
Rick graduated from NYU and began his documentary career with a master’s degree in Visual and Media Anthropology from Germany’s Freie Universität. He is based in NYC and Berlin, Germany.
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."
Hope Latta | Assistant to Producers
Hope Latta is an aspiring documentary producer. She is currently pursuing an MA in the History of Science at the University of Toronto. Hope holds a Master’s degree in Creative Writing and Literature from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Computer Science from Acadia University. Hope is a consulting partner at History Studio.
Hope was a part of the Warner Bros. Discovery diversity writing program.