OUR TEAM
PHOTO COURTESY OF ERIK SPINK
DANA KALMEY
DIRECTOR + PRODUCER + CINEMATOGRAPHER
Dana Kalmey is a 2017 Impact Partners Producing Fellow, 2019 newportFILM Documentary Cinematography Lab Fellow, and filmmaker focused on sports documentaries. Her film roster includes the Sundance award-winning TRAPPED and E-TEAM; (DIS)HONESTY - THE TRUTH ABOUT LIES, WELL GROOMED, and BACKPACK FULL OF CASH (narrated by Matt Damon), amongst others. Her work has been broadcast nationwide, and can also be seen on Netflix and Amazon Prime. Her soccer documentary, THE LAST 90 MINUTES, is currently in post-production, while TANDEM is in production. She is a development producer of INSPIRARE (Tribeca All Access 2020), a feature documentary following professional female freediver, Jessea Lu. Dana is trained as an architect, is a former college soccer coach, and former architecture teacher with The Green Gecko Project in Siem Reap, Cambodia. She holds a MFA in Social Documentary Film from The School of Visual Arts in NYC.
NORI MIZUKAMI
CO-PRODUCER + CINEMATOGRAPHER
Nori Mizukami was born and raised in Kyoto, Japan. He worked on a number of TV documentary and news programs for broadcasters such as Fuji, TBS, and NHK in Tokyo before moving to NY in 2012. He has been working on commercial, narrative and music videos as DP, AC and AD, besides directing his own documentary projects. His short documentary film, 18 Seconds, won the best short film award at the Harlem International Film Festival. His first long form documentary, What’s Invisible to Others, follows a visual artist going blind as an exploration with visual language that cannot be seen by its creators. He is presently touring with Pure Land, a new feature documentary about Japanese Zen Buddhists in the U.S.