Tocando la Luz (Touch the Light)

Jennifer Redfearn is an Academy Award nominated director. She directed and produced Sun Come Up, about a small island community losing their land to rising seas. Sun Come Up was nominated for an Academy Award in 2011, screened in theaters across the U.S. and aired on HBO. Her film Tocando La Luz (Touch The Light) was co-produced with ITVS and aired on PBS in… Show more 2016. It premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Festival where it won the Charles E. Guggenheim Award. Jennifer worked on the 2016 SXSW Audience Award winner Landfill Harmonic as a field director and consulting producer. She has produced documentaries for PBS, the BBC, National Geographic, CNN, Discovery and MediaStorm. Jennifer currently serves as the Director of the Documentary Program at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Show less

Tim Metzger is an Academy Award nominated producer and Emmy nominated cinematographer with over 15 years of experience filming documentaries. Tim filmed and produced the 2011 Oscar nominee SUN COME UP, as well as the award-winning feature documentary TOCANDO LA LUZ (TOUCH THE LIGHT.) He has served as director of photography for several major… Show more Emmy-nominated series, including National Geographic's THE STORY OF GOD WITH MORGAN FREEMAN and RISING: REBUILDING GROUND ZEROfor Discovery, executive produced by Steven Spielberg. Tim has filmed in more than 20 countries and his work has also appeared on PBS, BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, and HBO among others. He has also taught documentary filmmaking at New York University. Show less