Jordan Kronick

Director, Writer, Producer

Jordan Kronick is a ten-time Emmy Award winner and Peabody Award nominee with 25 years of experience creating premium documentary content for film, broadcast, and streaming. He was one of the longtime leaders of the HBO series Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, where he conceived, directed, wrote, and produced more than 40 documentary segments, winning Emmys for “Outstanding Sports Journalism” for his story about Mount Everest, as well as for his story about the Tokyo Olympics and Fukushima. His story about Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov was Peabody-nominated. Before HBO, he directed Into Harm's Way, a feature documentary about the Vietnam War for PBS, and produced STEEP, a feature documentary about the history of extreme skiing, which was distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. Prior to these projects, he did a long stint at ABC News, where he produced multiple documentaries with network anchor Peter Jennings for primetime viewing.

Hannah Vicente-Kliot

Producer

Hannah Vicente-Kliot is a five-time Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist based in New York City. She specializes in character-driven, immersive, and globally reported nonfiction. She is currently a producer with Words + Pictures on the Netflix series Instadocs. A former staff producer at HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, she spent four years producing premium nonfiction for one of television's most respected sports journalism franchises. Her reporting has taken her from war zones in Ukraine to surf communities in El Salvador, from the world of professional child bull riders in the American South to uncovering a systemic sexual abuse crisis in youth cheerleading. She has also worked with Ark Media, CNBC, and she produced the short narrative film Look at Me, which premiered in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2021. She is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

Erich Tengelsen

Executive Producer

After founding a derivatives trading company more than 30 years ago, Erich turned his attention to impact investing in the wellness and active lifestyle space. He is cause-driven and his family non-profit supports mental health, inner city education, and fighting childhood obesity. Most recently, he co-founded High Point Mountain Productions with his wife, Tracy.

Tracy Miedema Tengelsen

Executive Producer

Following a nearly 25-year career building and investing in brands in the natural products industry, Tracy co-founded High Point Mountain Productions. While working in organic agriculture, she created lasting impact to the food system and now finds documentary filmmaking to be a new realm in which to create positive impact for people and the planet.

Tres Driscoll

Editor

Tres Driscoll has been using his skills as an editor to help craft stories for television for over 25 years. He has worked with clients such as HBO, NBC Sports, CBS Sports, ESPN, The Food Network, The History Channel, and many others. His work spans a wide spectrum of media content including documentaries, reality TV, sports programming, promotional campaigns, and content marketing. Along the way, he has picked up 23 Emmy Awards, as well as a Peabody and a Dupont for his work on the acclaimed Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. His company, Man Behind the Curtain Productions, has also produced several Off-Broadway theatrical productions. Despite the awards and other accolades, he has always maintained that the most rewarding part of the job has been the relationships he has forged throughout his career with some of the industry’s best storytellers.

Jason Schmidt

Editor

Jason Schmidt is an award-winning New York-based editor who has spent decades cutting documentaries on wars, athletes, spies, civil rights icons, rock stars, and the defining tragedy of 9/11. Peaking marks his most mind-altering cut to date.

Michael Hartzel

Director of Photography

Michael Hartzel is a 30-year veteran of the film industry based out of Atlanta, GA. He has worked on feature films, television, commercials, documentaries, five Olympic Games, and other sports productions in 47 states and 17 countries. He loves being behind the camera, using his talents to craft compelling images to further the story. He takes great pride in being a part of telling important stories like the ones in this documentary. He is a father and a husband, and now also gets to use his passion and talents to capture beautiful photos and videos of his family.

Sam Painter

Director of Photography

Sam Painter is a cinematographer whose work encompasses documentary, television, and feature-length nonfiction storytelling. He is renowned for his cinematography on projects such as Billy Joel: And So It Goes, Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time, and Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief. He has cultivated a reputation for visually shaping narratives about music, culture, and history. He has garnered a Primetime Emmy nomination, secured multiple News and Documentary Emmy Awards, as well as several DuPont and Peabody Awards. His credits reflect a filmmaker with a keen visual eye and a consistent presence on acclaimed nonfiction productions.

Jamie Lawerence

Music

Jamie Lawrence is an eclectic musician who works across film, television, and theater as a composer, orchestrator, and producer. His career in the industry has been recognized with five Emmy Awards and nine additional nominations. For many years, he has held a prominent role with the Tony Awards, serving as both its associate music director and its principal composer and arranger. He has a prolific history in documentary film, having scored several projects for HBO, such as Dealing Dogs, Death on a Factory Farm, and The Alzheimer’s Project: Momentum In Science. He also served as music producer and contributing composer for the 2025 sleeper hit Drop Dead City. A frequent collaborator of filmmaker Rebecca Miller, he has produced, orchestrated, and conducted scores for several of her projects, including the Apple TV+ series Mr. Scorsese, Arthur Miller: Writer, Maggie’s Plan, and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.

Justin Bolognino

VFX Creative Director

Justin Bolognino is the founder/CEO of META and Unreality, the verification infrastructure for the experience economy. Creative/Experience Director. Grows consciousness at Silent G Farms retreat and music studio in upstate NY. Builds immersive worlds with St. Vincent, Skrillex, Phish, Questlove, and brands like Spotify, Google, and HP.

Dev Harlan

VFX Art Director

Dev Harlan is an artist and designer based in New York. He has over two decades of expertise in creative direction, 3D design, and interactive digital media. His 3D projection work has been presented at Christopher Henry Gallery (NY), the Sonos Space (LA), the Singapore Light Festival, and the Coachella Music Festival. Notable projects include stage design for the Y-3 / Adidas at NYFW and a permanent light sculpture for Canon USA’s global corporate headquarters. A self-taught artist, he recently completed a degree in Earth Science at Columbia University.