Carl D. Brown
Executive Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor

In 2002, Carl Brown moved from Brooklyn, NY to the Bay Area and began working in digital film production. Having attended The Tisch School for Film and Television he started his own freelance production company, Corduroy Media.

His concern with social inequality, environmental racism and corporate control of information and media outlets motivates his projects with independent artists, non-profit foundations, and educational groups. He currently works with clients in the Bay Area and New York, including Just Think, The Student Conservation Association, Youth Speaks, Mills College, The Carnegie Foundation and Rebel Soul Records. His educational, narrative and corporate work have been broadcast on VH1 and shown at film festivals, educational conferences, and corporate trainings in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Montreal, Barcelona, and Kuala Lumpur. Along with producing, directing, shooting, and editing he also teaches filmmaking and digital video production at the Film Arts Foundation’ youth education program, TILT. Carl continues to work with underserved communities and organizations dedicated to education and equality. Leading projects highlighting individuals and communities so rarely touched by mainstream media. Carl hopes to provide a bridge of communication and understanding between divergent religious, racial and social groups.

Erin Beach
Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor

Erin Beach is a professional photographer, videographer and journalist. Erin is currently a producer at CBS MarketWatch, where she's worked for six years producing and shooting segments for the nationally syndicated CBS MarketWatch Weekend television show, as well as multimedia packages for the Web site

In 2002, Erin produced and filmed a documentary about an inner city hip-hop dance troupe in Oakland that helps keep kids off the streets. It is currently in post- production. In 2000, Erin spent 18 days in Havana, Cuba, studying photography with National Geographic photographer David Allan Harvey. She focused on teen culture, a recurring theme in her work. Erin's photographs have appeared in USA Today, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, the Pioneer Press newspaper group, the Charleston (WV) Gazette and the Winston-Salem Journal. She graduated from North Carolina State University with a photojournalism degree.