The Cast
KHADIM DIOP is an actor, filmmaker, spoken word poet and native New Yorker.
KIMBER MONROE is an actress, entrepreneur, co-founder of the online multimedia publication Mixed Mag and native New Yorker.
XISKO MAXIMO MONROE is an actor, dancer, and native New Yorker.
The Crew
MIGUEL SILVEIRA (WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER) is an award-winning independent filmmaker and arts educator currently teaching directing, documentary filmmaking, and film editing at Columbia College Chicago. Silveira’s documentary feature, I AM A VISITOR IN YOUR WORLD (2013) was an Official Selection of The Woodstock Film Festival, Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, and Athens Film + Video Festival. AMERICAN THIEF (2020), Silveira’s first feature narrative/documentary hybrid, was a Jerome Foundation Grantee, a participant in the IFP Completion Lab, and is distributed in North America via Film Movement.
MISSY HERNANDEZ (WRITER/PRODUCER) is a screenwriter, producer, and assistant professor in the Cinema and Television Department at Columbia College Chicago. She graduated from Columbia University in New York with a BA in Cinema Studies and an MFA in Screenwriting. She was a Writer and Co-Producer of AMERICAN THIE (2020), a feature narrative/documentary hybrid distributed in North America via Film Movement, and an Associate Producer for Terence Nance’s Peabody Award-winning series RANDOM ACTS OF FLYNESS (2018). In 2020 she established the production company Hurricane and Yucca with her partner, Miguel Silveira.
ALEJANDRO MEJIA, AMC (CINEMATOGRAPHER) is a lefty Mexican-born and an Emmy-nominated Cinematographer based in Brooklyn N.Y. His work has screened at Sundance, Berlinale, Tribeca, Toronto, Rio de Janeiro and Cameraimage film festival, amongst others. Winner Golden Frog Best Docudrama for “499” at Cameraimage Film Festival 2020 Winner Best Cinematography for “499” at Tribeca Film Festival 2020. In this year 2020 he has been nominated for Best Cinematography at the Emmy Awards (306 HOLLYWOOD). And in 2019 at the Critic Choice Awards (306 HOLLYWOOD).