About the Film

Cody Sheehy

Cody Sheehy is an award-winning filmmaker whose films intimately tell the stories of characters challenged by our changing world. He has lived on a sailboat for decades and is the founder of Rhumbline Media. As a filmmaker, he is best known for the film Make People Better, which was an official selection of HotDocs and the winner of DocVille.

Mark Monroe

Writer, director, producer, and co-founder of Diamond Docs, Mark Monroe is a two-time EMMY winner, three-time WGA award winner, and BAFTA nominee, whose credits include ICARUS and THE COVE, which both won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Other notable credits include JIM HENSON IDEA MAN with Ron Howard, Grammy winner THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK with Ron Howard, Peabody nominee LUCY AND DESI with Amy Poehler, THE BEE GEES: HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART with Frank Marshall, PAVAROTTI with Ron Howard, BECOMING COUSTEAU with Liz Garbus, BEFORE THE FLOOD with Leonardo DiCaprio, THE DISSIDENT with Bryan Fogel, WATCH THE SOUND with Mark Ronson & Morgan Neville, and TALES FROM THE TOUR BUS with Mike Judge. A journalism graduate from the University of Oklahoma, Mark began his career as a writer for CNN. He resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.

Randy Gebhardt

Randy Gebhardt is a photographer, writer and filmmaker who spent 30 years as an entrepreneur and business executive, before founding RandomGood Films. Originally trained as a journalist, he has produced dozens of film and print projects in the corporate world and now focuses on documentary production in human interest and wildlife conservation.

Christopher Gebhardt

Christopher Gebhardt is a leader in using storytelling to drive social impact, applying a strategic framework he developed at his impact agency/consultancy Stir and while serving as Participant Media's EVP for digital, brand, and business development. At Participant, he led the creation of digital communities and created impact agency/consultancy Tag, which had clients Disney, Intel, American Express, MacArthur Foundation, and Gates Foundation. Prior to Participant, he was a pioneer in branded entertainment at Pepsi, Ogilvy-where he was the head of emerging technology and innovation—and as co-founder of Integrated Entertainment Partners. He was also a consultant at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and has an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School. He is an Edmund Hillary Fellow and a fellow of the RSA. He teaches at UCLA’s Anderson School and served as Chair of the Ad Council Issue Advisory Board.

Lauren Brinkman

Lauren Brinkman is an editor of documentary and narrative film whose works have showcased at the Telluride, Sundance and Austin Film Festivals. Prior to editing documentaries, she worked to develop nonfiction projects.

Chance Falkner

Chance Falkner is a Los Angeles based Cinematographer that first got his hands on a camera in the small, dusty, Arizona town of Buckeye. This has influenced his work in a way that makes it as touchable as it is thoughtful. Chance has an affinity toward process driven work. This approach creates a strong visual language that can be traced across all his work. His narrative films have a visceral nature to them, reminiscent of documentary work and his documentary work has an elevated visual language, reminiscent of narrative filmmaking.

Paul Leonard-Morgan

Award-winning composer Paul Leonard-Morgan has written music for the concert hall, the theater, public events, worked with pop and rock bands, and composed for the screen, both large and small. His experience and range are the epitome of the skill, versatility, and appeal of a 21st century composer—in a world where genres are less and less important, he’s a conservatory trained composer with a punk rock heart.

Kim Christensen

KIM B. CHRISTENSEN was born and raised in Denmark and has been a sound designer and sound effects editor since 1992. Early career highlights were working as the assistant sound designer on Francis Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which won an Oscar for Best Sound Editing, and as the SFX editor on David Fincher’s Seven. Recent projects include Marvel series like Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and season 2 of Andor, and he was recently nominated for an Emmy and an MPSE award for the Steve Martin documentary Steve! A Documentary in Two Parts, showing on AppleTV+.

After running his own boutique sound design company for over two decades, Kim is currently working with Skywalker Sound at Lucasfilm, and has just finished Formula One with Brad Pitt, opening this summer. His sound design for The Last Dive was based on capturing and mixing the authentic and beautiful sounds of the ocean, boats, and scuba diving. Thanks to Terry's example and inspiration, he is now also a certified diver.

Jana Edelbaum

Jana is the founder of Ideal Partners, which recently completed: THE LIBRARIANS, a feature documentary about the book banning movement beginning in Texas, which premiered Sundance 2025, and the feature documentary BEYOND UTOPIA, who's numerous awards include the 2023 Sundance Audience Award for US Documentaries and the Dupont Journalism Award. Currently Ideal is producing the documentary film SWIFTIES and is in pre-production on the narrative thriller EVERY GOOD BOY DOES FINE.

Rachel Cohen

RACHEL COHEN is an independent film producer and head of production at Ideal Partners where she works on both scripted and unscripted content. Recent projects include: THE LIBRARIANS, directed by Kim Snyder, which premiered Sundance 2025 and fall 2025 on ITVS/Independent Lens; feature documentary BEYOND UTOPIA, numerous awards include the 2023 Sundance Audience Award for US Documentaries and the Dupont Journalism Award; IDINA MENZEL: WHICH WAY TO THE STAGE, a now streaming on Disney+. Upcoming projects include a feature film biopic about iconic choreographer ALVIN AILEY to be directed by Barry Jenkins and distributed by Searchlight.

Prior to iDeal, Rachel was SVP of Development and Production at Tribeca Productions, and before that she spent seven years at Artisan Entertainment as SVP Development and Acquisitions.