PRODUCTION MANAGER
Alex has spent the last 10 years working in Production Management across multiple genres. She has worked at various production companies including Blast! Films, The Garden & BBC Studios, working on a large number of UK and US high-end prime time award winning documentaries.
She is the lead production manager at HiddenLight, working across several feature docs on their current slate.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Amy is the Co-Creative Director and SVP of Unscripted for HiddenLight Productions. Until recently, she was Head of the BBC Documentary Unit, making documentaries, arts, and history programs. Previously, she was Deputy Head of Factual at Channel 4, commissioning a wide variety of premium factual content.
Her background is in production and, as a producer and executive producer, she has credits on multiple BAFTA, RTS and Grierson-winning documentaries.
PRODUCTION EXECUTIVE
Over the last 25 years, Cherry has worked on numerous high-profile Emmy, BAFTA, Grierson and Academy Award winning dramas, documentaries, features and installations. Notable credits include Band of Brothers, The Hours, Natural World: The Batman of Mexico, H is for Hawk, Inside Nature’s Giants and 1983: The Brink of Apocalypse.
Her most recent work includes If I Could Tell You Just One Thing and the Emmy award winning In Her Hands.
PRODUCER / EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Evan is a multi-award-winning filmmaker specializing in human rights investigations and strong character-based documentaries from hazardous, conflict, war and authoritarian environments around the world.
Evan has worked extensively for PBS Frontline/Channel 4, winning three Emmys for his work. This collaboration included the highly acclaimed Myanmar’s Killing Fields, which earned him a BAFTA and a Peabody Award.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Johnny is an Emmy award winning Executive Producer and creative leader. He has executive produced In Her Hands for Netflix, the 8 part series Gutsy for AppleTV+, the Webby nominated If I Could Tell You Just One Thing with Priyanka Chopra for YouTube Originals and produced the Feature Doc Don’t Look Down also for Netflix.
Johnny is passionate about criminal justice reform and has produced a collection of films about the death penalty under the deathpenaltyfail.org campaign.
DIRECTOR
Laura is an award-winning filmmaker specialising in filming intimate and dramatic stories, portraying human narratives in a cinematic style.
Most recently nominated for a Grierson for Tigers: Hunting the Traffickers (BBC), she brings high end filming to the most extreme situations, marrying her experience as a feature documentary Director and Director of Photography with years of experience in the field as a journalist.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Heralded as “the finest American theater actor of his generation” by the New York Times, Liev Schreiber is an actor, director, and writer known for his humanistic and often gritty performances. He is a co-founder of Bluecheck Ukraine and an ambassador for President Zelensky’s fund United 24.
In response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Schreiber collaborated with a team of humanitarian aid experts, entrepreneurs, and entertainers to establish a direct channel connecting donors with frontline Ukrainian organizations, addressing the urgent needs arising from the conflict.
To build the model, BlueCheck tapped its vast network to identify local aid organizations; it developed partnerships with Ropes & Gray and Integrity Risk International to verify the groups’ legitimacy; and then it fast-tracked funds to the approved entities. Over two years, BlueCheck raised and distributed more than $4.5 million to 30 frontline organizations that had sprung up to provide food and water, shelter, medical equipment and services, psychological support, and more.
Photograph by Celeste Sloman
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Malinda Wink is the Executive Director of Minderoo Pictures, the social impact film enterprise of Minderoo Foundation. Ms Wink was Executive Producer of the climate documentary, 2040, The Final Quarter about champion First Nation’s AFL player, Adam Goodes, and Big Deal: Is Our Democracy for Sale? and is a highly regarded leader within the global screen industry and not-for-profit sector.
Before joining Minderoo Pictures, Ms Wink was Doc Society’s Global Director of Good Pitch and launched their Australian programs, including the ABC’s Climate and Environment Shorts initiative. She was previously Executive Director of Good Pitch Australia whose films included That Sugar Film, Gayby Baby, The Opposition, Blue, Frackman, and In My Blood It Runs, and Executive Director of Ian Darling’s Shark Island Institute.
PRODUCTION SECRETARY
Michaela has been an invaluable member of The Cranes Call team. This is her first feature documentary. Michaela has previously been working across the development slate at HiddenLight.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Nevine Mabro is a commissioning editor at Channel 4 in News and Current Affairs. She specialises in foreign documentaries and investigations and has commissioned the BAFTA winning Children of the Taliban as well as the Peabody winning Kharkiv: Life Under Attack, Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings & Nazanin.
Before joining Channel 4 as a commissioner she produced For Sama – an Oscar nominated feature documentary directed by Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts which started life as a series of Channel 4 News reports in 2016. She ran the Film Fund at Channel 4 News and has a track record in finding new talent on and off screen. It was whilst running foreign news and film coverage at Channel 4 News that she exec-produced three International Emmy short films from Syria – Horror of Homs in 2013, Agony of Aleppo in 2014 and Inside Aleppo in 2016.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Siobhan is a BAFTA, Peabody and Emmy-winning producer and executive producer with 20 years’ experience in US and UK television working across many genres of factual television, from investigative journalism to popular features.
For 10 years she was commissioning editor for current affairs and documentary at Channel 4. Documentaries include The Hunt for Jihadi John, Lyra, In Her Hands, and the Cannes-winning and Oscar-nominated For Sama.
Laura Warner
Evan Williams
Laura Warner
Martin Kayser-Landwehr
Andy R. Worboys
Walter Mair
Siobhan Sinnerton
Amy Flanagan
Johnny Webb
Liev Schreiber
Nevine Mabro
Malinda Wink
Evan Williams
Alex Cavalier
Cherry Dorrett
Michaela Whittle
Iain Kitching
Garreth Cook
Billy Morley
Svitlana Koval
Karim Shah
Jeffrey Clanet
Viacheslav Rakovskyi
Anton Kotsiuba
Andrew Yarme
Sam Kashefi
Dan Preston
James Dwyer
Nas Parkash
Patrick Fripp
Claire Ellis
Victoria Bax
Toby McCathie
Ragaa Cheba
Grace Loewe
Anya Neistat
Solomiia Stasiv
Amal Clooney
Alice Keane
Jack Lee Taylor
Jo St. Mart
Molinare
Honor Page
Deanna Morley
Vicki Matich
Olive Curran
Prash Naik
Secret Compass
Jane Shevchuk
Konstantin Boulich
Oleksandra Dmytruk
Roseanna Escobar-Bryne
HiddenLight is an independent production company dedicated to creating premium content for a global audience.
Founded by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sam Branson and Chelsea Clinton, the company is led by Co-Creative Directors Siobhan Sinnerton and Amy Flanagan together with CEO Johnny Webb.
HiddenLight is committed to producing films that entertain, surprise, spark conversations and activate audiences through a greater understanding of the world we live in.
Evan Williams Productions (EWPL) is a multi-award winning independent production company based in London, making investigative current affairs and documentary programmes for broadcasters around the world.
EWPL has a proven passion for bringing important stories – often from the most remote or hostile places – to the screen for broadcasters including PBS (US), Channel 4 (UK), SBS (Australia) and Al Jazeera English.
Central to their approach is rigorous journalism, finding compelling and inspiring characters and creative story telling.
