Production Team

Kay’s life and career seamlessly blends her love for film, photography, animals, nature, art, culture, history, travel and music. With more than 25 years of experience, Kay is well-versed in all phases of production and is very much a “hands-on” producer. She is a non-fiction production specialist with a passion for complex large-scale location shoots as well as filming that requires small documentary crews.

Kay has been an integral part of the museum production community for over 20 years, and has worked as a freelance producer/production manager for documentaries, television programs, commercials and non-fiction films filmed on location across the country and around the world. Her client list includes numerous national museums as well as notable Fortune 500 companies and non-profits. The projects she has worked on have received top awards in several national and international festivals. When she is not chasing butterflies, Kay enjoys traveling, cooking, the performing arts and spending as much time as possible in the natural world.

The Butterfly Trees is Kay’s directorial debut. She has also worked on productions for The National Aquarium, the California Science Center, Flint Hills Discovery Center, the World of Coca-Cola, Talbot Productions and Oceana, the National Constitution Center, the Lewis & Clark Visitor Center, the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library, the Louisville Slugger Museum, the Kentucky Show, the Indiana State Museum, the Kentucky Derby Museum, the College Football Hall of Fame, the Falls of the Ohio Visitor’s Center, the Corning Museum of Glass, and Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center to name a few.

Jeff is an EMMY-nominated and Cine Golden Eagle-winning cinematographer with a career spanning more than 25 years. Jeff is renowned internationally for his exceptional eye and ability to tell a story with powerful and compelling visuals. He has shot numerous high-profile documentaries and non-fiction segments including programs for the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, PBS, NOVA, WGBH -Boston, The Animal Planet, HBO, Showtime, NBC Olympics, NFL Films, Frontline, NASA, and the History Channel.

Carlos began his career in the film industry at six years of age as an actor. His professional education behind the camera started at age 20, working as an assistant cameraman with internationally-recognized cinematographers including his father. Carlos is the current President for the AMC, Mexican Cinematographer Society and has been a board member since 2004. Carlos specializes in narrative feature films, aerial cinematography, and documentaries, and has worked on more than 2,000 productions throughout his career.

David is an accomplished musician, studio engineer, and video editor who specializes in the creation of visual effects and computer animation. He is a master at creating and manipulating images, and is highly regarded for his intuitive skills with software and hardware. David believes in constantly pushing the boundaries of technology to realize the utmost in creative expression.

His audio and post-production work spans over 35 years and includes many nationally- and internationally-recognized, award-winning productions; among them The American Museum of Natural History, The National Aquarium, California Science Center, Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Capitol Visitor's Center, Monticello, the National Constitution Center, Gettysburg, The World of Coca-Cola and The Clinton Presidential Library.

Gil is a world-renowned EMMY-nominated composer, producer and recording artist with a passion for socially conscious media projects. Blending traditional orchestral background with tasteful electronics and eclectic world music sensibilities, Gil has created a signature sound that can be heard in many award-winning productions worldwide.

Some of Gil's most recent work includes the IMAX Backyard Wilderness (nominated for best original score at the 2018 Giant Screen Cinema Awards), Chavela, Straight/Curve, Desert Migration, Remittance, and The Memory of Fish. Gil's score for Chavela was nominated for Best Original Composition - Feature Film Score by the Music & Sound Awards. Gil has also scored the Peabody Award-winning documentaries Between The Folds (PBS Independent Lens), Who Killed Chea Vichea? (PBS) and New Year Baby (PBS Independent Lens) – winner of the Amnesty International “Movies That Matter” Award. Gil was nominated for a National News and Documentary EMMY Award for his work on CBS Evening News and recently won Best Documentary for his score for Tales Of The Waria (PBS).

As a feature writer for Entertainment Weekly, USA Weekend, and The New York Times, Alanna is a longtime chronicler of popular culture. She is the author of seven books, including The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley (winner of the Belmont Award); and Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch, which was the basis for the feature film Up Close and Personal, Dolly: The Biography; and Elvis Baby Let’s Play House.

Named one of the "Heavy 100 of Country Music" by Esquire magazine, Nash holds a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She earned the 2004 CMA Media Achievement Award and the 2004 Belmont Book Award and was the Society of Professional Journalists' National Member of the Year in 1994. Alanna is a recipient of the Country Music Association Media Achievement Award and the Charlie Lamb Award for Excellence in Country Music Journalism.

After graduating from the School or Journalism at Indiana University, Cathy promptly put her degree to good use by going to work in advertising. Through her 35-year career as a copywriter and creative director, Cathy has won national awards in all media, with some of her print work housed in The Smithsonian’s permanent collection. As a small farmer, beekeeper, and nature-lover, Cathy has a lifelong appreciation for the “circle of life” and the major role that pollinators of all stripes (and spots, patches, and patterns) play in it.

Eleanor Bingham Miller is a documentary film producer with more than 40 years’ experience in non-fiction entertainment and served as a Producer for the recently released Boston the first feature-length documentary film about the Boston Marathon. In the 1970’s, Miller worked for the legendary documentary collective TVTV. Subsequently she worked as an independent producer for PBS and as Public Affairs programmer for Louisville, Kentucky’s CBS TV affiliate, WHAS-TV.

She has mentored, produced or executive produced over twenty feature films, PSAs, short-form and full-length documentaries with the likes of Ned Beatty and Muhammad Ali. She assisted with Clara Bingham and Robert Kennedy Jr.’s The Last Mountain, a feature-length documentary expose of mountain top removal coal mining in West Virginia. The Last Mountain was presented in competition at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

Robin is a film producer/director with 30+ years of inspiring independent projects related to food, music and social justice issues. Robin produced the feature documentary Music Makes A City for Owsley Brown; the film was the winner of the Gramophone Award in 2012. She also directed Living Lightly, a poetic tome to the earth, which screened at several international film festivals. Robin is also a certified mediator and restorative justice facilitator.

Born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey, Courtney is a freelance associate producer, production manager, photojournalist, and photographic artist. She received her MA in Media, Communications & Visual Arts from Pace University in New York, and began her career as a Forensic Photographer for the New Jersey State Police. Since then, she has worked for National Geographic TV and, most recently as associate producer for Lifestyle International, with film work in Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Togo, Algeria, Russia, and Singapore. Courtney loves to travel, explore countries and cultures, and capture what she sees.

Annie is a multimedia photographer, graphic designer, and web designer. Her photography work has been included within national and international exhibitions as well as several art collections, including the private collection of Sir Elton John and the Museum of Art at Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been exhibited in galleries such as Soho Photo Gallery in NYC and Gallery 2 & Project Space in Chicago, Illinois. She has taught Photography at Rhode Island School of Design as well as video courses at the Experimental Television Center. Annie is currently teaching Photography, Multimedia, Video and Professional Seminar courses at the Kentucky School of Art & Design.

At the heart of her photographic passion, Theresa is a master of creating imagery in the spirit of playfulness, intimacy and connection. As a child, she stargazed from the rear dash of her dad's Chrysler, then began chasing sunsets once she first learned to drive. Most days, Theresa can be found immersed in the wild natural world with camera in hand, photographing Texas wildflowers, migrating monarchs, or the golden light illuminating the mesas and mountains of the desert southwest.

As a self-taught freelance photographer and lover of music, Theresa has documented the Texas music scene for several decades shooting for various artists, record companies, SXSW, Texas Monthly and Rolling Stone. Recently she has also worked with Texas Highways Magazine & Texas Parks and Wildlife. Her current, ongoing exhibition, Delicate Balance: Metamorphosis of the Monarch Butterfly, premiered at the Cockerel Butterfly Center at the Museum of Natural Science then traveled to northern New Mexico's La Mesa Gallery in Los Alamos.