About Us

The Filmmakers

Laura Harrison-Producer/Director/Editor

After working in France for eight years, primarily as a picture and sound editor on French feature films, Laura returned to the U.S. to complete an MA in Documentary Film Production at Stanford University. She has been making documentary films and videos about a diverse range of subjects ever since. Prior projects as producer/director/editor include Thurmond, W.Va.(Silver Apple at NEMN 1996, Director’s Choice at Black Maria 1996), and Secret People (Silver Medal for Best Feature Documentary, SXSW Film Festival 1999), a one-hour documentary film about leprosy in America that was broadcast on national PBS. Most recently, Laura co-executive-produced Voting in America, a compilation of 9 short films about why Americans don’t vote that was broadcast on PBS.

Beth Federici-Producer/Director

Beth is an independent filmmaker, educator and media activist. Most recently she co-directed/produced the feature length documentary Neither Here Nor There, which documents a Bosnian refugee family making Missouri their new home while struggling to come to terms with the past they left in Srebrenica. Federici was awarded three gold Telly awards while producing/editing for the Columbia Channel in Columbia, Missouri, as well as a Merit Finalist award from the Worldfest Houston film festival for her documentary Bauhaus Gotham. She earned a Masters degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2007 and currently works as a freelance producer/editor New York City.