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RACHEL FALCONE
RACHEL FALCONE

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Rachel is a documentary filmmaker and multimedia artist. With Storyline, she has produced Water Warriors (POV), and co-directed the participatory web documentary and exhibition Sandy Storyline (winner of the inaugural Tribeca Film Festival Storyscapes Award); Sanctuary, a theatre commission from the Working Theater; and 28th Amendment, a multimedia project about the 2008 housing crisis. She has directed dozens of short films for organizations like AFSCME and The John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Prior to Storyline, Rachel produced content with the award-winning national oral history project StoryCorps and EarSay, Inc., and was an associate producer on Incite Picture’s Young Lakota (Independent Lens 2013). She taught oral history and storytelling for movement-building in collaboration with institutions like the Museum of the City of New York and Parsons The New School for Design. Rachel is also a sound recordist for film and radio, including most recently Knock Down The House (Netflix) and a forthcoming podcast from The Weather Channel.
@storiesrising

MICHAEL PREMO
MICHAEL PREMO

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Michael Premo is a journalist and artist whose film, radio, theater, and photo-based work has been exhibited and broadcast in the United States and abroad. In addition to his work with Storyline, he has created original work with numerous companies including Hip-Hop Theater Festival, The Foundry Theater, The Civilians, and the Peabody Award winning StoryCorps. Michael's photography has appeared in publications like The Village Voice, The New York Times, and Het Parool, among others. Recent projects include a new performance commissioned by the Working Theater, with the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the multi-platform project 28th Amendment, the participatory documentary Sandy Storyline, award-winning short film and exhibit Water Warriors (POV), and Veterans Coming Home (PBS), a series about the transition from military service to civilian life. He has participated in civic artist residencies with The Laundromat Project and the National Resource Defense Council. He is the recipient of a Creative Capital Award, A Blade of Grass Artist Files Fellowship, and a NYSCA Individual Artist Award. Michael is on the Board of Trustees of A Blade of Grass.

Where We've Been Speaking

2021

+ Co-Host and Moderator of Storytelling in Crisis, Community Dialogue. Watch the Recording.

2020

+ Panelist–Exposure Labs and #EarthDayWatchParty, “Using film to drive climate action in a time of social distancing”

+ Moderator–#StayHomeWatchTogether Earth Day Water Warriors Q&A

+ Keynote Speaker–Columbia University, “The Stories that Rise”

2019

+ Presenter–Columbia University, “The Role of Narrative in the Natural Sciences and Humanities”

+ Mentor–Black Public Media

+ Presenter–Leuphana University

+ Presenter–Fight C Prince George

+ Presenter–Creative Capital

2018

+ Keynote Speaker–Seeds of Peace “Gather”

+ Workshop Leader–Seeds of Peace “Gather”

+ Presenter–New York University

+ Presenter–International Center of Photography 

+ Panelist–Allied Media Conference, "Double Feature & Panel"

+ Panelist–Allied Media Conference, "StoryShift: Amplify, Resource & Support Accountable Storytelling"

+ Panelist–Allied Media Conference, "Whose Story Is It? De-colonizing Documentary Practice"

+ Panelist–DOC NYC Pro's Distribution Boot Camp, "Secrets of Self-Distribution"

+ Panelist–Facing Race

+ Presenter–Good Pitch Local, Dallas, TX

+ Presenter–Wesleyan University

+ Presenter–Ohio State University

+ Presenter–Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital 

+ Presenter–Fossil Free Fest 

+ Presenter–San Francisco Green Film Festival

+ Presenter–Lumbee Film Festival

+ Facilitator–Tribeca Film Festival, "Diversity on Whose Terms?"

+ Facilitator–Advancing Justice Conference, "In the Streets, On the Screen: Documentaries for Social Justice"

+ Presenter–Real Art Ways

+ Presenter–The Queens Museum

+ Panelist–The Reach Gallery

 

2017

+ Panelist, Citizen Artist Salon

+ Workshop Leader, Laundromat Project

+ Workshop Leader, Magnum Foundation

+ Presenter–Sane Energy Project, "Displaced; A Conversation on Climate Chaos, Refugee Crisis and Immigration"

+ Panelist–Tribeca Film Festival

+ Panelist–Patois Human Rights Film Festival

+ Presenter–Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

+ Presenter–New York University, Arts Politics

+ Presenter–School of Visual Arts

+ Workshop Leader–Citizen Engagement Lab, Water Warriors Strategy Summit

+ Panelist–NYU Wagner School, "Arts, Public Narrative, and Storytelling for Social Justice"

+ Workshop Leader–#GetOrganizedBK, "Storytelling for Activists Using Film and Other Mediums"

+ Panelist–Firelight Lab

+ Presenter–NAMAC Hatch Lab, Philadelphia

+ Presenter–People vs. Oil and Gas Summit 

+ Panelist–Blackstar Film Festival, "Who Gets to Tell Which Stories? On Cultural Appropriation"

+ Presenter–Swale and Eco Practicum

+ Panelist–Elsipogtog First Nation

+ Presenter–Cry You One Community Salon

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AWARDS

Ekotopfilm Envirofilm, Prize of the Slovak Environmental Agency for Global Applicability, Slovakia (2018)

Green Film Network, Best International Environmental Documentary Short 2018

Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, Eric Moe Award for Best Short on Sustainability (2018)

Wild & Scenic Film Festival, Best in Theme (2018)

One Nation Film Festival, Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary Short Film (2018)

One Nation Film Festival, Jury Selection for Best Documentary Short Film (2018)

Blackstar Film Festival, Best Short Documentary (2017)

Austin Under-the-Stars, Best Documentary (2017)

Adventure Film Festival, Environmental Activism Award (2017)

Indigo Moon Film Festival, Juried Award for Documentary Short (2017)

Rockwood JustFilms Fellowship (2017)

Laundromat Project Soapbox Award (2014)

Tribeca Film Festival Inaugural Award for Transmedia (2013)

A Blade of Grass Artist Files Fellowship (2012)

Association of Independents in Radio New Voices Scholarship (2010 and 2011)

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space Residency (2010)

New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Award (2009)

 

PRESS COVERAGE

2019

The Guardian, Two short films focus on resistance, connection with land and water tonight at UPEI

The Hollywood Reporter, How 3 Documentary Shorts Rallied for Justice, Culture and the Environment

2018

WaterDocs, The Day I Held a Feather to Power: a Personal Account of Resistance to Fracking

WTOP, Environmental Film Festival hopes movies can heal Mother Nature

Variety, Environmental Film Festival Spotlights Front Lines of Eco-Activism

Rabble.ca, Dive into World Water Day with two films on the precious resource

Filmmaker Magazine, “Don’t Sell Out, Don’t Give Your Art to a Corporation”: Secrets of DIY Doc Distribution at DOC NYC PRO

No Film School, No Distributor? No Problem: How You Can Maximize Your Release via Self-Distribution
 

2017

Sierra Club, A Sneak Peek Into This Year's Best Environmental Films

IndyWeek, Atlantic Coast Pipeline Opponents Screen Documentary About Pipeline Resistance, Urge Cooper Administration to Reject Necessary Permits

The Hollywood Reporter, ‘Water Warriors' Trailer Previews Canada's Anti-Fracking Outcry (Exclusive Video)

CBC, ‘I was deeply moved': Director hopes to bring anti-fracking film to N.B.

Filmmaker Magazine, Tribeca ’17: Five Questions with Water Warriors Director Michael Premo

WHYY, Who gets to tell the story?

Global Citizen, This Small Indigenous Community in Canada Took On a Big Natural Gas Company and Won

Hollywood Progressive, At Tribeca Film Festival, Activist Docs Look Back at LA Riot

Boulder Weekly, Jonny Copp, living long: The legacy that drives Boulder’s Adventure Film Festival

 

2016

Arts and Culture Texas, Project Row Houses: Shattering the Concrete: Artists, Activists and Instigators

IVOH, Sandy Storyline evolves alongside recovery

 

2015    

Voices Heard: Fracking Stories and Water Warriors

Creative Exchange, Recovering the Story: How Arts Contribute to Emergency Recovery and Resilience

 

2014    

Fast Company, Interactive Timeline Invites You to Listen To Common Stories Of Survival

New Orleans Public Radio, Katrina/Sandy Website Offers Comparisons In Resilience

101.5 NJ, ‘Katrina/Sandy’ timeline study is launched by Sandy Storyline & Land of Opportunity

Grist, Katrina and Sandy cost over 2,000 lives. Will we do better next time?

Colorlines, On Hurricane Katrina’s Eighth Anniversary New Orleans Residents Continue Rebuilding

Center for Media and Social Impact, New Interactive Timeline Explores Katrina/Sandy Stories

Black Voice News and Louisiana Weekly, Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy: Disaster Inequality

PBS Media Shift, 5 Innovative Projects Show the Power of Citizen Collaboration

The Guardian, Art of collaboration: when creatives, coders and councils join forces

Local News Lab, How to Engage Readers: 3 Sites Doing It Right

Truth Out, Homeland Security Study Praises Occupy Sandy, With Murky Intentions