The Team

Alisha Hastings-Kimball is a lifelong visual artist based in Lambertville, New Jersey and the daughter of Dr. Allen Katz, K2UYH. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art Therapy and a Master of Arts in Teaching from The College of New Jersey, where her father taught for more than 50 years. As resident artist and owner of Songbird Studio, she works across clay, paint, photography, words, and thread, embracing creativity in everyday moments. Earth Moon Earth is her first film.

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Leigh Medeiros is an award-winning screenwriter, producer, and developmental editor. She was Associate Producer on Anchor Bay's THE ATTICUS INSTITUTE (2015) and has helped bring to life many other independently produced narrative and documentary shorts. Various creative projects of hers have been featured in The Boston Globe, Outside, SPIN, Food Network magazine, Uppercase, Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, and more.

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Ryan Gibeau is the owner of the creative production company Rockit Films and Adjunct Professor of film at Emerson College. He has spent two decades behind the camera on independent features, documentaries, music videos, and branded work, with credits that include Gone Baby Gone, Madame Web, Ugly Betty, Date Night, Merry Good Enough and Dirty Night Clowns (music video director/dp). On Earth Moon Earth, Ryan served as cinematographer, drone operator, and resident calm person.

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Jen Lee is a writer, director, editor, and producer of celebrated independent films. Her directorial work includes Bright Lights, an official documentary selection of the 2017 Manhattan and Adirondack Film Festivals; Indie Kindred, an award-winning documentary about creative collaboration among independent artists; and Gather, a feature-length narrative/documentary hybrid about adult friendship. Jen is a Moth GrandSLAM storytelling champion whose stories have been featured on the Peabody Award-winning Moth Radio Hour. She is based in New York City.

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Joe Watson is an audio recordist with dozens of credits across independent features, documentaries, and shorts. His clients have included the NY Rangers, MTV, WWE, and many more. He specializes in capturing clean, honest sound in unpredictable environments — a skill that came in handy while surrounded by high-powered radio equipment on Earth Moon Earth. Joe is also a licensed ham radio operator — callsign KE2HIL.

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Angie Byers is a fine art and documentary photographer whose work has been featured in Bella Grace, Life Images, and Carolina Mountain Life, among others. A self-described seeker of light and beauty, Angie brings a contemplative, curious eye to everything she shoots. For Earth Moon Earth, Angie took production stills and collaborated closely with Alisha to bring her vision to life for the flower photoshoot staged inside Allen's 28-foot dish.

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Desiree Adkins believes that a settled body creates the conditions for everyone around it to breathe, feel, and eventually, create. As a licensed counselor and Professional Certified Coach through her practice EVO2GRO, she holds steady space for those moving through the hard, vulnerable, emotionally demanding work of bringing something meaningful into the world. Whether keeping the team physically fed or emotionally supported, Desiree made sure everyone had what they needed to keep going on Earth Moon Earth.

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Michele Russo has spent more than two decades championing the arts in New Jersey. Since 2015 she has served as President & CEO of Young Audiences Arts for Learning New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania, the region's leading arts-in-education organization, which brings performances, residencies, and workshops to thousands of students each year. Before leading YA, she managed the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival — the largest poetry festival in North America. She lent her production support and lifelong belief in the power of the arts to Earth Moon Earth.