THE TEAM
PETER HUTCHISON: Director/Producer/Writer
Peter Hutchison is an award-winning filmmaker, NYT bestselling author, educator & activist.
His films include "Requiem for the American Dream: Featuring Noam Chomsky" (Netflix) – a NY Times Critics Pick & #1 selling doc on iTunes – the companion piece book a NY Times Bestseller.
The recent "Healing From Hate" (Journeyman/MEF) - an exploration of hate group activity as seen through the lens of masculinity - has been described as a “raw masterpiece”. "Devil Put the Coal in the Ground", a holistic look at the ravages of extractive industry and corporate power in West Virginia, has garnered 6 festival Best Feature awards and is slated for Fall 2023 release.
His longstanding commitment to issues around male identity has resulted in the films "You Throw Like A Girl: The Blind Spot of Masculinity" (MEF), "Angry White Men: Masculinity in the Age of Trump" (Grasshopper), and "The Man Card: White Male Identity Politics from Nixon to Trump" (MEF).
In addition to directing, he has produced several feature documentaries including "What Would Jesus Buy?", "Awake Zion", "Egypt, A Love Song", “SPLIT: A Divided America”, “SPLIT: A Deeper Divide”, and the forthcoming "The Town That Shot the Sheriff".
He holds an M.S. in Counseling Psychology/Systems Dynamics.
LUCAS SABEAN: Director/Producer/Editor
Lucas Sabean is an editor, producer & filmmaker, whose output includes narrative & documentary features, commercial video, and a large body of experiential work.
He directed, produced & edited the soon-to-be-released Devil Put the Coal in the Ground (Rogovy Foundation grant recipient), directed, produced & edited The Man Card: White Male Identity Politics from Nixon to Trump (2020, The Media Education Foundation, Sedona Film Festival). He co-directed & edited Angry White Men: Masculinity in the Age of Trump (2019, Grasshopper Films), produced & edited the critically acclaimed film Healing from Hate: Battle for the Soul of a Nation (2020, Journeyman Pictures/Freestyle Digital Media) which premiered at DOCNYC and was a SIMA award-winner. Directed, produced and edited You Throw Like A Girl: The Blindspot of Masculinity (2020, Media Education Foundation/Kanopy). He is also producing and editing Cure For Hate: A Former White Supremacist Confronts the Legacy of the Holocaust (2022).
His other credits include his short film “Relievio” (2000, Slamdance, Telluride, Seattle & Chicago International Film Festivals), associate produced the narrative feature “Roof to Roof" (2001, Sundance Film Festival). His film “End of Era” (2003) was part of The Underground Zero film program, screening at more than a dozen International film festivals. “The Last Stand” (2008) won best feature film by a local filmmaker at the Backseat Film Festival in Philadelphia. Choreographer Paul Taylor has called his experimental films "superb - like poems made visible." He has an MFA from Boston University in Film Production.
GEORGE MONBIOT: Writer/Featured Subject
As a young man, George Monbiot spent six years working as an investigative journalist in West Papua, Brazil and East Africa, during which time he was shot at, shipwrecked, beaten up, stung into a poisoned coma by hornets, lost for days in a rainforest, and (incorrectly) pronounced clinically dead in a hospital in northern Kenya.
Today, he is known for his environmental and corporate activism, and writes a weekly column for The Guardian, concentrating on political philosophy in relation to ecological and social problems. Among his body of work are "Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life"; "The Age of Consent"; and "Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning". His more recent books include the best-sellers "Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis", and "Regenesis".
He has made a number of videos. One of them, How Wolves Change Rivers, based on an extract from his latest (of several) TED Talks has been watched 40 million times on YouTube.