Team
Emily Cohen, Producer, Director, writer
Emily Cohen follows her curiosity. She is the executive director of KHOL, Jackson Hole, Wyoming’s award-winning public radio station. She briefly studied fiddle at East Tennessee State University, where she performed Liza Jane as part of her audition. Her film Camina Conmigo (Walk with Me) was a winner in the If/Then x Redford Center Nature Connection pitch competition at the 2023 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.
Dan Gutstein, Producer, Director, writer
Dan Gutstein is the author of eight books and chapbooks, including Poor Gal, about the “Liza Jane” family of songs, which was published in November 2023 by University Press of Mississippi, and received a 2024 Special Recognition Award from the ASCAP Foundation. Dan’s work with lyrics and vocals appeared most recently on the 2025 performance album Live At The Black Cat! released by experimental band Fanoplane.
Dom Flemons, producer, Narrator, Host, primary Musician
Dom Flemons is a Grammy winner, Emmy nominee, and United States Artists Fellow. Known as The American Songster he is an expert player on the banjo, guitar, harmonica, jug, percussion, quills, fife and rhythm bones. He is the co-founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and the creator, host, and producer of the American Songster Radio Show on WSM in Nashville. His most recent album is Traveling Wildfire on Smithsonian Folkways (2023).
vania kinard, producer
Vania Kinard is a consultant, digital creator, curator, entrepreneur, photographer, producer, world traveler, and writer with over 15 years of work experience in both politics and the music industry. She has worked on many film projects, including The Real Wild West Docuseries on CuriosityStream and the marketing campaign for The Carolina Chocolate Drops official documentary, Don’t Get Trouble In Your Mind.
brian graves, Director of photography
Dr. Brian Graves is an Associate Professor of Media and Technology in the School of Communication at Florida State University, with specialties in media writing and production, documentary storytelling, and public memory. He was writer, producer, director, and editor of Charlotte Mansfield, a Woman Photographer Goes to War, which premiered on PBS in 2020 and appeared on 296 public television stations.
Alyson spery, cinematography
Alyson Spery aims to amplify stories often unheard. In 2019, she founded DIY Docs and began teaching filmmaking courses for The Sister Cities Docuseries. In 2020, she was awarded a Fulbright Garcia Robles scholarship to continue the project in the state of Tlaxcala, Mexico. She now resides in Jackson, Wyoming working in film and dreaming in Spanish.
Erich Roland, cinematography (emeritus)
Erich Roland has been cinematographer for two Academy Award-winning films: Driving Miss Daisy and The Johnstown Flood. He has been a director of photography for the music documentaries Deep Blues and Gospel According to Al Green, and was one-half of the DP team for It Might Get Loud.