OUR TEAM
PHOTO COURTESY OF ERIK SPINK
DANA KALMEY
DIRECTOR + PRODUCER + CINEMATOGRAPHER
Dana Kalmey is a documentary producer, director, cameraperson, and editor driven by teamwork, athleticism, humor, culture, and discovering the innate humanity in her projects. Her film roster includes the Sundance award-winning TRAPPED and E-TEAM; (DIS)HONESTY - THE TRUTH ABOUT LIES, WELL GROOMED, and BACKPACK FULL OF CASH (narrated by Matt Damon), amongst others. Her work has been broadcast nationwide, and can also be seen on Netflix and Amazon Prime. A lifelong soccer player, Kalmey has been drawn to the sports world in her filmmaking. Her soccer documentary, THE LAST 90 MINUTES, is currently in post-production, while TANDEM is in production. She is also producing INSPIRARE (Tribeca All Access 2020), a feature documentary following professional female freediver, Jessea Lu. She is trained as an architect, is a former college soccer coach and architecture teacher with The Green Gecko Project in Siem Reap, Cambodia, and has a MFA in Social Documentary Film from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Dana is also a 2017 Impact Partners Producing Fellow, a 2019 newportFILM Documentary Cinematography Lab Fellow, and a recurring guest speaker at NYU focusing on the art of the documentary interview.
NORI MIZUKAMI
CO-PRODUCER + CINEMATOGRAPHER
Nori Mizukami was born and raised in Kyoto, Japan. He worked on a number of TV documentary and news programs for broadcasters such as Fuji, TBS, and NHK in Tokyo before moving to NY in 2012. He has been working on commercial, narrative and music videos as DP, AC and AD, besides directing his own documentary projects. His short documentary film, 18 SECONDS, won the best short film award at the Harlem International Film Festival. His first long form documentary, WHAT'S INVISIBLE, follows a visual artist going blind as an exploration with visual language that cannot be seen by its creators. He is presently working on PURE LAND, a new documentary project about Japanese Zen Buddhists in the US.