Mike Cosby – Director/Producer/Writer

Mike Cosby has devoted 17 years to youth development in multicultural communities, nearly five of those as Vice President of northern California’s largest inner-city youth serving organization, Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco.  He holds a BA in Psychology and a graduate of the “Working with Youth in Community Settings” program at the renowned Justice Institute of Canada.  However, Mike considers his own upbringing within disadvantaged circumstances to be his greatest asset in working as a youth development practitioner and has relied heavily on this background to help mentor hundreds of highly at-risk youth throughout North America and abroad.  He has spent the past year studying and practicing documentary filmmaking full-time in preparation for this project, having left the security and familiarity of a well-established career.  Mr. Cosby is the Director/Editor of the short documentaries sleep.over and Kings of Suicide and currently Cinematographer on a documentary of the longest imprisoned journalist in U.S. history.

Mickey Freeman – Director/Director of Photography

Mickey Freeman has been an award winning director/cinematographer for 27 years. His honors include the Academy Award nominated documentary Goodnight Miss Ann, a portrayal of Latino boxers in the barrios of Los Angeles for which he was Director of Photography.  He received an Emmy award for the public affairs promotion of the Oakland Gospel Choir for ABC, and an Emmy for his visual portrayal of The Return To Tule Lake, as well as a lifetime of various other awards.  His work ranges from TV documentaries, numerous Hollywood feature films including Mrs. Doubtfire, Hurly Burly, True Crime, Basic Instinct and dozens of independent feature films. He Directed, Produced and shot the feature documentary entitled, The Weight of Obesity, a work that examines the childhood obesity epidemic in America.  Mickey is personally committed to projects that involve the human condition and creating change.  For more information about Mr. Freeman please visit www.mickeyfreemandp.com.

Chikara Motomura – Editor

Mr. Motomura began working in TV/film in New York City in the late 1980s, where he worked as Director, Production Coordinator and Researcher for the well-known Japanese production company, Telecom Japan.  He spent five years in Hawaii at KIKU TV as Producer/Director on documentaries and commercials.  Here he also produced his first short film, Revelation for 25 Cents, which was screened at the Hawaii International Film Festival.  In 1997, Chikara began collaborating with Rob Nilsson, a Berkeley-based Sundance award-winning filmmaker.  With Rob, he helped create 14 independent films serving as Producer, Cinematographer, Sound Recordist and Editor.  For the last 15 years he has continued to work for Japanese television networks as a freelance Director/Production Coordinator.  Currently, Chikara works at Link TV as an editor for Mosaic, a Peabody Award winning daily news show on the Middle East, and the Editor/Cameraman for Mosaic Intelligence Report, a news analysis program on the Middle East.

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