FEATURING

FEATURING

  • Doug Tallamy is the T. A. Baker Professor of Agriculture in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has authored 106 research publications and has taught insect-related courses for 41 years. Chief among his research goals is to better understand the many ways insects interact with plants and how such interactions determine the diversity of animal communities.

    His book Bringing Nature Home was published by Timber Press in 2007, The Living Landscape, co-authored with Rick Darke, was published in 2014; Nature's Best Hope, a New York Times bestseller, was released in February 2020, and his latest book, The Nature of Oaks, was released in March 2021. His awards include recognition from The Garden Writer’s Association, Audubon, The National Wildlife Federation, Western Carolina University, The Garden Club of America, and The American Horticultural Association.

  • Emma Jonas, a first year entomology graduate student at the University of Delaware. In her Masters-project proposal, Emma will study the impact of soil compaction and hydration on the pupal behavior of lepidoptera, or caterpillars.

THE FILMMAKERS

THE FILMMAKERS

  • Mary Posatko is a director and producer with a focus in documentary storytelling. Her feature films have received financial and artist support from Sundance, the BBC, Chicken and Egg, The San Francisco Film Society, the Independent Filmmaker Project, the Abell Foundation, and she is a recipient of the inaugural International Documentary Association’s Pare Lorentz Award. Her films have screened theatrically and in US and international film festivals including South by Southwest, IDFA, CPH:DOX, and Nashville, among others, and have been incorporated into college curricula across the country.

    Mary created, produced and directed a series of animation/documentary hybrid films about HIV in partnership with LAC/USC hospital and the Rutgers Data Protein Data Bank. Most recently, Mary has partnered with Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services in Los Angeles for an ongoing series of animated fiction and documentary films that explore teenage mental health in the aftermath of Covid-19. She received her BA in History from Brown University and her MFA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. She is an Assistant Professor in Film and Television at SDSU, and Affiliated Faculty in SDSU’s Center for Communication, Health and the Public Good.

  • Marie Hinson is a queer and trans artist raised in Appalachia, now practicing poetry, performance, and film in NYC. Her work has been included in commissions and programming at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Tribeca Film Festival, Brooklyn Rail, Center for Book Arts, Bureau of General Services: Queer Division, Vox Populi, and the Scribe Video Center. Currently, she is a virtual reality cyberpunk goth building immersive performance environments in cyberspace as hexe.exe.

    Marie’s feature credits include: Krimes (DocNYC 2021, MTV Films), Frank Bey: All My Dues Are Paid (Chicken and Egg Nest Knight Fellowship 2019, IFP Documentary Lab 2019, TFI Network (2020), Queer Genius (NewFest 2019). She is cinematographer for ongoing projects including Jules Rosskam’s Desire Lines (Full Spectrum Features). Clients have also included PBS, LogoTV, Facebook, and Comcast. Marie has an MFA in film from Temple University.

    Also a teacher, she has led classes in art and documentary filmmaking at Temple University, Virginia Tech, Scribe Video Center, and PhillyCAM as well as visiting artist lectures at University of Vermont and Union Theological Seminary.

  • Davon Ramos was born and raised in Los Angeles, California to Mexican-American and Chinese-Hawaiian parents. Growing up in a home where jook was served side-by-side with arroz mexicana and lau lau is probably the biggest influence for his insatiable curiosity about the world, not to mention food.

    He studied creative writing as an undergraduate at USC and returned a few years later as a graduate student to study film at the School of Cinematic Arts. Somewhere in between he picked up a camera and filmed projects for Jurassic 5, People Under the Stairs, DJ Shadow and Nipsey Hussle. Later, he established himself as a writer and editor with a client list that includes CNN, EA Sports, Interscope, Netflix, The Smithsonian Channel and PBS.

  • David Butler is a dialogue and ADR editor for feature films and television. The Wandering Lepidoptera marks the fourth time he has collaborated with documentary filmmaker Mary Posatko (Ain’t in It for My Health: a Film about Levon Helm, All Fall Down, and Target Zero). He has also worked on numerous small, independent films and television series such as The Batman, Stranger Things, The Fate of the Furious, American Sniper, and Godzilla. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, cheering on his sons in water polo and band, and sighing deeply when he checks the score to the San Diego Padres game.

  • Colleen McGregor holds her MFA from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts in film production and a BA in writing from Georgetown University. She has produced and directed numerous projects over the past 15 years. She is the Co-Founder of The Greenprint, a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to empowering people around the world to build sustainable communities that achieve UN Sustainable Development goals. She produced a ground-breaking virtual community planning tool - The Greenprint VR - which connects a global audience to collaboratively design sustainable neighborhoods and provides practical blueprints we follow to build those neighborhoods in the real world.

    Formerly, she was lead producer for 'World in a Cell' an immersive art-science research project at USC's World Building Media Lab led by renowned world-builder and production designer Alex McDowell and in collaboration with The Bridge Institute. She Associate Producer of a documentary series, 'Target Zero' which shows the challenge and emotional complexity of the fight to control HIV infection. It features real-life patient stories, state-of-the-art molecular animations, and interviews with medical professionals and scientists. These accounts illuminate the history of the HIV epidemic and reveal the ongoing need for compassionate, patient-centered care and a true understanding of the science behind the treatments.

    In 2021, she produced and directed several video series with major athletes (Ibtihaj Muhammad, Chiney Ogumike, and Liz Cambage) for Togethxr a brand and media site that elevates women's voices and tells their stories co-founded by Alex Morgan, Chloe Kim, Simone Manuel, and Sue Bird. She also recently shot a short documentary, ‘Pump Life’ about the challenges three working mothers face breast pumping at their workplace and the transformations they underwent in early motherhood. In 2008, Colleen directed, produced, shot, and edited a feature documentary called, ‘From the Mouthpiece on Back,’ about a teenage brass band from New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The film is narrated by award-winning actress Kerry Washington and premiered at AFI Dallas. She also co-wrote a feature, “The Mad Whale’, for USC’s collaboration with Elysium Bandini Studios starring Summer Phoenix, Camilla Belle, and Dominic Rains now available on Amazon.