As co-founders of Partners in Kind, Gillian Hormel and Shelly Tygielski are bringing purpose to production through their impact equity funds, new economic models to fund social impact in entertainment, and gathering thought leaders to formally define the standards of measurement for shifting culture through all forms of media.

Noelani Mei is a writer and filmmaker, joining the SIE Voices team in 2018 to expand its operations and presence. She graduated from Washington and Lee University in 2017 where she studied English and Film. Since moving to LA, Noelani has worked on film productions in a variety of departments. Her writing has also been published in several magazines.

Majoring in Film and Television and concentrating in Producing and Documentary at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since the age of 16, he has produced several audiovisual initiatives and multidisciplinary projects with the aim to generate a progressive social impact.

Kitty is currently a Film and International Development Studies student at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is interested in photo and video journalism, specifically in sharing the stories, struggles, and cultures of developing communities in hopes of contributing to a more socially active and aware society.

Gabe Torres is a film director and former Co-Chair of the DGA Latino Committee. He grew up in Aurora, New York, a small village on Cayuga Lake, one of the Finger Lakes in upstate New York. He started making films at age twelve when he discovered an old eight-millimeter camera in a neighbor's closet.

Spencer Moleda is a freelance writer, script supervisor, and motion picture researcher residing in Los Angeles, California. His experience ranges from reviewing movies to providing creative guidance to fledgling film projects.

Recent UC Berkeley grad who enjoys challenging foresight using present trends - especially when it involves media/cultural industries.

Dr. George Larkin was the V.P. of Development and supervised post-production for David O. Russell’s Spanking the Monkey and Flirting With Disaster as well as Manny & Lo, The Last Good Time, and Wigstock: the Movie.

What a day ! What a lovely day!

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” ― Bob Dylan

Emmy nominated Producer and Conceptualist Tony Frere got his start creating blockbuster commercials for the New York ad world in tandem with international art and music projects that expanded popular culture through collaborations with a diverse range of artists including Madonna, David Fincher, Ornette Coleman, Gus Van Sant, Antoine Fuqua, Udo Kier, Kenny Scharf and Mike Mills. Among his feature length projects,

Media has always played an important role around the globe. We live in a world of influence and social change - and as filmmakers, we want to contribute to a better world. The question is: How can we make better films that accelerate progress and help people become stronger critical thinkers? How can we expose issues that are important, and publish content that challenges popular conceptions? These podcasts along with the SIE Voices magazine take a multidisciplinary approach and interviews filmmakers, psychologists, researchers and academics. It analyzes success stories of films that had an impact, and portrays companies that are following this path. SIE Voices is a platform to bring impact filmmakers together to share ideas and to challenge our assumptions through debate.

Álvaro is an Film Studies Senior exchange student at the University of California, Berkeley. He's passionate about documentary and non-fiction films, which he considers the ultimate way of combining the passion for creating stories and talking about our society and our historical world at the same time.

A writer, actress, and producer with over a decade of experience in the film industry, Jessa is always in search of new ways to illuminate the dusty pockets of humanity and explore their magic. But what truly inspires Jessa is finding unique ways of giving back and inspiring positive change in the world, even if it's one laugh at a time.

I love when innovative cinema is made in the process of telling a true story.

Matt DeMartini is a cinephile from Santa Cruz, California and a graduate of UC Berkeley. He has worked at Pixar Animation Studios for the past five years, where Matt is currently a Production Coordinator on animated feature films.

Jodie Howard is a second year Film Studies major and English minor at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an active student filmmaker with a passion for cinematography and documentary work. Jodie is currently facilitating a “Filmmaking for Activists” course to foster a community of Cal filmmakers producing positive social change through cinema.

What's the craziest thing you've done lately?

I'm a 24 year old male living in California. I'm a film lover. I'm a humanist. I believe in Love.

A Los Angeles resident,  George earned a BA in Film Theory and Media Studies, as well as an MA in Screenwriting. He currently works at Lost Planet Editorial, a commercial post-production house, while he focuses on his filmmaking career.

Born: 1937 Died: 1980 Re-animated and reprogrammed by the C.I.A. with a sole mission: to infiltrate the minds of international audiences through cinematic analysis.

Project leader of apertus° open source cinema

Yoni Weinberg was born and raised in Los Angeles, California where he naturally developed an appreciation for the movies - both snobby indies and big dumb comedies. He attended UC Berkeley, where he majored in Film Studies and expanded his knowledge and love of film. Since graduating, he's been pursuing a career as a TV writer and most recently worked as the Writers Assistant on the TBS late night program The Pete Holmes Show. 

Carlos graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Media Studies. Most recently he's worked at the Wikimedia Foundation (the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia) alongside the communications and fundraising team where he helped facilitate collaboration between wiki-based projects around the world. He's also an avid filmmaker.

Owen is a student of Film at UC Berkeley. Hailing from Colorado, his interests include: activism, cyber liberty, disability rights, and general tomfoolery.

Student of Film and Political Science at the Free University of Berlin, Germany and at the University of California at Berkeley. Filmmaker and Writer.

Ace Salvador is a writer/director and philosopher from New York. He enjoys surfing, reading, great restaurants, PTA films and jazz. 

Sky is the author of "Virtual Reality Insider", the current bestselling VR book on Amazon. He is also the CEO of New Dimension, a company building VR games with focus on story.

Robert Rippberger is an award-winning filmmaker with an impressive slate of films spanning almost over two decades. He has established himself as a trailblazer in the film industry, known for his unique storytelling and broad array of creative and executive experience.

Tobias is an Austrian Producer and Cinematographer with more than 15 years of experience in creating digital visual arts. He co-founded SIE Voices in 2013, and runs the LA-based Social Impact Entertainment production company Prodigium Pictures since 2011. His main interest is how film influences us - and how this impact can be used effectively and ethically. He graduated with a BA in Film Studies from UC Berkeley, where he wrote his thesis "SIE Voices: The Persuasive Impact of Narrative Motion Pictures on Society and Individuals". Tobias is both a Cinematographer and Producer and has shot, directed or produced more than 100 short-form and feature film projects. Tobias has developed and taught the only class in Cinematography at UC Berkeley. His artistic principles are PPCEQ - Purpose, Productivity, Creativity, Ethics and Quality Control.

Filmmakers have classically created film to entertain, to make art and profit, to advance technology and narrative structures. In the documentary genre, creating awareness of a certain issue is often the central interest. There is a much greater potential within motion pictures though, namely the capacity to transformative influence – films can change society.