The Team
Director & Producer
ALEXANDRA LEXTON
Alex has been working in the film industry and writing over the course of her career. Her roles in the film industry have included producer, writer, production executive, development director, actor, and marketing, among others. She holds a BA in English literature and dramatic arts from Whitman College, and an MFA in writing from Goddard College. Alex has produced five feature length films. Her award-winning directorial debut is The Lure of this Land and had its world premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival in October 2019. Her award-winning feature documentary Fools’ Paradise (lost?) is currently being distributed by Bullfrog Films and Gaia. Alex conducts public speaking and teaching engagements, as well as workshops on writing and film production. She judges for various film festivals, and is also an apple farmer and retreat leader at 1900 Apple Farm.
CINDY REYNOLDS
Executive Producer
Cindy is a professional with over 30 years as a Software QA Engineer, an International Board Certified qEEG Technologist, and founder of the successful company NeuroFit® where she currently uses the science of EEG to help people optimize their brainwaves and live happier, healthier lives. For over 16 years now, Cindy has been identifying the source of clients presenting systems, and with the latest NeuroTechnology, training the specific regions of their brain to regulate - improving focus, reducing anxiety, and regulating emotional reactions. Today Cindy still runs her successful NeuroFit practice as she works on disseminating her Soul Series books: Soul Seeker and Soul Bridges, two deeply personal stories that highlight the opportunities and divine light in all things - even the most tragic. Together these books represent Cindy’s personal offering as a Soul Coach to us all. www.cindyreynolds.com
MARIA F. LEÓN
Line Producer
Maria brings more than 15 years of production experience in broadcast television, marketing videos, award winning documentaries, short and feature films from independent productions and top studios like Independent Television Service, Lionsgate Films, Radical Media, Paramount Pictures and Annapurna Films. She has produced commercials and web series for clients like Adobe, Salesforce, Dockers, Ancestry.com, Zynga, Nextracker, PAN America and PBS, including the Emmy Nominated series Brief But Spectacular. Maria holds a BA in Cinema Arts and a Masters of Fine Arts from Harvard University. She is a passionate storyteller with published written works in the San Francisco Chronicle, East Bay Express and NPR. Maria believes different perspectives create a rich creative environment. She prioritizes those values in her creative storytelling and through the hiring of diverse talent and crews.
FRAZER BRADSHAW
Director of Photography
Frazer Bradshaw began his career with a rigorous education in painting, sculpture and photography before finding his way into filmmaking. Because of his visual arts training, Bradshaw is most connected with the visual aspects of filmmaking. Cinematography became an obvious career choice because of his drive to create distinctive cinematic language for visual storytelling. As a DP, Bradshaw has built a substantial resume shooting both independent productions and commercial media, both in the San Francisco Bay Area and nationally. Bradshaw has shot a host of projects, including 20 narrative feature films and nearly as many feature documentaries, as well as hundreds of shorts, commercials, music videos and corporates. Resume highlights include work on Focus Feature’s Babies, Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton’s documentaries, These Amazing Shadows and Being George Clooney and his own narrative feature, Everything Strange and New, which he both shot and directed, and which premiered at Sundance and was nominated for both Spirit and Gotham Awards.
LINDA PECKHAM
Editor
Linda Peckham has edited programming for national broadcast and film festivals for the last 25 years. Most recently, No Straight Lines: the Rise of Queer Comics premiered at Tribeca in 2021. She has experience in long form documentaries and character-driven dramas, plot-driven investigative journalism, science literacy, artist profiles and performances. Several projects have been nominated for Emmy awards, and her broadcast work for KQED won many regional awards. She has a BA in Film and an MFA in Writing. Born in South Africa, she left to study film, believing it to be the medium that most inspires change.
Composer
LILI HAYDN
GRAMMY® winner and EMMY nominee Lili Haydn is a composer, songwriter, singer, and violinist. Well known for her 6 critically acclaimed major label recordings as a solo artist, and her legendary collaborations with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, George Clinton's P-Funk All Stars and Hans Zimmer, Lili has taken her unique melodic and harmonic sensibility and emotionally penetrating musical voice into composing for film and television with 19 feature films/documentaries to her credit, and the hit Netflix series Ginny & Georgia, for which she earned an Emmy nomination in 2023 . Lili is a 2x HMMA nominee, BMI Award winner, Sundance Fellow, and winner for Best Music at the Milan International Film Festival. As the daughter of iconic feminist comedienne Lotus Weinstock, and a graduate of Brown University in political science, Lili is a lifelong activist, and believes music and stories have the power to heal and uplift…important now more than ever.