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Writer & Director: Noah Hutton
Producers: Kellen Quinn, Taylor Hess, Jesse Miller
Executive Producers: Greg Boustead, Jessica Harrop
Editors: Camille Gregoire, Noah Hutton
Original Score & Cinematography: Noah Hutton
Animation: Andrew Khosravani
Featuring Songs by Computer Magic

Presented by Sandbox Films, with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
A Couple 3 Films and Hedgehog Films production


 Noah Hutton (Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Composer). Noah directed, edited, and scored the award-winning documentary features Deep Time (SXSW 2015) and Crude Independence (SXSW 2009). In 2015, Noah was named a Salzburg Global Fellow in Neuroscience & Art, and created Brain City, a multi-platform installation in Times Square commissioned by the Times Square Arts Alliance that brought visuals from six leading neuroscience labs to some of the largest outdoor displays in the world. In 2020, he wrote and directed the sci-fi feature Lapsis, which premiered in the narrative feature competition at SXSW 2020 and was acquired by Film Movement for U.S. theatrical release in early 2021. He graduated from Wesleyan University, where he studied art history and neuroscience, and received the Jacob Burns Film Center's 2015 New Lens Award.

Kellen Quinn (Producer) is an independent producer whose credits include Garrett Bradley's Time (Sundance 2020 winner of Best Director, US Documentary Competition), Luke Lorentzen's Midnight Family (shortlisted for Documentary Feature Oscar; Sundance 2019 winner of Special Jury Award for Cinematography, US Documentary Competition), Daniel Hymanson’s So Late So Soon (True/False 2020) and Viktor Jakovleski's Brimstone & Glory (True/False 2017; aired on POV). Kellen was selected for DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 class in 2020. In 2017 and 2018, he participated in the Sundance Documentary Creative Producing Lab and Fellowship. In 2016, he was among six producers selected for Impact Partners’ Documentary Producers Fellowship. With Luke Lorentzen, Kellen is a co-founder of the independent production company Hedgehog Films.

Taylor Hess (Producer) is a filmmaker, journalist, and contributing editor for Filmmaker Magazine. She has directed and produced for ESPN, The Atlantic and Netflix. She directed and produced the award-winning ESPN 30 for 30 short documentary Mack Wrestles (2019), which premiered at SXSW. The first two narrative features she produced were selected to premiere at SXSW in 2020 — Lapsis by Noah Hutton and The Surrogate by Jeremy Hersh. Taylor has worked at Vox, Jigsaw Productions, Part 2 Pictures, The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), and Scott Rudin Productions. She is a graduate from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. 

Jesse Miller (Producer) is an independent producer and educator based in New York City. He produced the narrative feature film Lapsis, which premiered in competition at SXSW in 2020, and co-produced the award-winning documentary feature Deep Time (SXSW 2015). He has also worked on the Amazon web series Becoming Jiff (Samuel Goldwyn Films), a short film for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame directed by Jonathan Demme, and the feature film The Last (2019) among other projects.

Camille Gregoire (Editor) is a Texas-born, New York-based filmmaker and editor. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s Film M.F.A. and her shorts have screened at festivals and venues including Oaxaca Film Film Festival, Lincoln Center, Currents New Media and Marina Abramovic Institute West. Recently she spearheaded a digital get out the vote campaign for Collective Agency and has edited work for organizations such as SF Ballet, National Sawdust and Barnard College.