Soozie Eastman is a documentary filmmaker and short film producer. During her time at Chapman University completing her MFA in Producing for Television and Film, she returned to her hometown of Louisville to produce and direct By The Wayside, a feature length documentary about the city's homeless. The film played very well both in Kentucky and on the festival circuit, winning several awards, but it was the discovery of her profound love for educating and inspiring people through motion pictures that was taken away most from that experience.

Soozie has gone on to work under Michael Ovitz (founder CAA, former president ABC/Disney) and Janet Yang (Producer The Joy Luck Club and People vs Larry Flynt). She was post-production accountant and festival liaison for Dark Matter which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. She has taught university-level courses in pre-production and was Director of Programs of the prestigious HUMANITAS Prize honoring writers in television and film. She is currently the Executive Director of the Louisville Film Society, serves on the Louisville Film Commission and produces the annual Flyover Film Festival. Soozie continues her love of creating “mindful media” with her latest film endeavor, her first feature, Overload: America’s Toxic Love Story.

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Stephen Nemeth formed and heads up Rhino Films, the independent film company that originated as a division of iconoclastic record label Rhino Records. He has produced and executive produced dozens of films. His producer credits include The Sessions (2013 Academy Award nomination for Helen Hunt, 2012 Sundance Audience Award), C.O.G., the first David Sedaris adaptation (Sundance 2013), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Why Do Fools Fall in Love, Dogtown and Z Boys, Radio Free Albemuth, the last Philip K. Dick novel, and Snake and Mongoose about a legendary drag-racing rivalry. Nemeth's documentary credits include War/Dance (2008 Academy Award nomination), Fuel (Sundance 2008 Audience Award), Flow (Sundance 2008), Pick Up The Mic (Toronto 2005), Climate Refugees (Sundance 2010), Robert Williams Mr. Bitchin', Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story, Patriocracy and is in post-production on A Nuclear Family, Ride With Larry and State of Control. He is on the board of numerous non-profit organizations including Friends of the Earth, Children Uniting Nations and the International Documentary Association and is on the dean's board of the UC Santa Cruz's School for the Arts.
 

Lisa Kaas Boyle is a Passionate Activist for Environmental and Social Justice using Legal Policy, Writing, Speech and Film to Create a More Sustainable and Just Civilization.  Lisa is an alum of Vanderbilt University and Tulane Law School where she graduated Cum Laude. She began her career as a Deputy District Attorney in Los Angeles in the Environmental Crimes Division of the Office. Lisa later served as Legal Policy Director for environmental  nonprofits Heal the Bay, 5 Gyres and WeTap and co-founded Plastic Pollution Coalition. Her most notable achievements before executive producing Overload are: drafting legislation to ban plastic microbeads that became federal law, drafting legislation to make plastic straws available on request only in California, and protecting the Malibu Creek Watershed from development at Ahmanson Ranch, instead helping this treasured land become parkland. Lisa has spoken and produced panels about environmental legal policy around the world at venues including the Rio Earth Summit, United Nations and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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TEDx talk on global environmental solutions to plastic pollution
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Editor – Aleksander Marinovich

Graphic Designer – Jonathan Klingenfus

Music Supervisor – Leah Streetman

Original Score – Sebastian Chang

Camera Operators – Reid Olson, Brelin Tilford, Hannah Bowman, Derek MeansAssociate Producer  - Laury Christensen

Sound Designer  - Derek Sepe, MPSE          

Assistant Editor - Robert Skrodenis           

Logger - Hannah Bowman

Additional Graphic Design - Haik Katsikian & Elizabeth Ryan

Research Coordinator  - Hannah Passano

Research Assistants  - Charles Burns, Alyssa Hendricks, Jordan Marmorato, Amy Foster Parish, Elle Toussi

Production Assistants - Charles Burns, Alyssa Hendricks, Jordan Marmorato, Andrea Bresnahan, Ana DaSilva

Additional Camera Operators - Antonio Pantoja, Roman Lane, Guillermo Fernandez, Jeff Dolen, Brennan Clark, David Chmielewski, Joel Wanek, Arlene Muller, Scott Shuffitt, Jordan McNeile, Joe Mullen