MARK BROWN Director/Producer/cinematographer
Mark is a filmmaker, photojournalist and marketing/advertising photographer. His first documentary, Sermon of the Serpent (2014), screened at film festivals across the country and abroad. It won best short documentary at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. Mark has made several other short documentaries, including Gaelynn Lea: The Songs We Sing (2018), about Duluth musician and disability rights advocate Gaelynn Lea. The Fishing Hat Bandit is his first feature-length documentary.
Nick Clausen - Editor/writer
Nick Clausen lugged around a 23-pound camera for many years covering television news from Chattanooga to Minneapolis, winning four regional Emmys and a regional Edward R. Murrow award. Today, Nick films and edits documentaries, including Women Outward Bound, which aired on PBS stations throughout the nation, and won Best Feature Documentary at the Paddling Film Festival. Nick’s credits include short documentaries for the Washington Post, The New York Times, livestreaming for AJ+, and various Showtime and Netflix credits. A documentary Nick filmed and edited, Sign O’ The Times, screened at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival in 2022.
Chris Newberry - Producer
Chris Newberry is an award-winning producer based in Minneapolis. His films have appeared on two acclaimed PBS series, America Reframed and Independent Lens, as well as several national and international television networks. Chris recently served as producer and cinematographer on Norah Shapiroʼs TIME FOR ILHAN, which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and took home a National Daytime Emmy Award and an NAACP Image Award nomination. Chris is currently in post-production on his fourth feature-length documentary as producer, which explores the 1989 abduction and murder of Jacob Wetterling.