The Team

Uzo Aduba
Nellie Mae Rowe

Three-time Emmy Awards winner, Uzo Aduba, lends her voice and movements to our animated Nellie Mae Rowe. Among many memorable performances, Uzo is known for her role as “Crazy Eyes” in the Netflix series, Orange is the New Black, and for her portrayal of Shirley Chisholm in Mrs America.

Amy Warren
Judith Alexander

The actress, Amy Warren, lends her voice and movements to the gallerist and arts patron, Judith Alexander. Amy is an experienced stage actor appearing in countless broadway plays and musicals. On screen, she’s known for her roles in Gravity and Mistress America.

Opendox
Directors

In 2012, Petter Ringbom and Marquise Stillwell set out to the Texas high desert plains to make their first film together, a short about Marfa. Since then they’ve made three feature-length documentaries, as well as a number of short films and commissions. Their primary focus has been stories about “creative underdogs”—artists, musicians and designers who create in order to reflect on, escape from, or change society.

Ruchi Mital
Writer, Producer

Petter Ringbom
Writer, Cinematographer

Petter’s feature documentary, The Russian Winter, followed musician John Forté’s Russian odyssey after release from prison. His film, Shield and Spear, examined freedom of expression in South Africa. Petter’s films have screened at Tribeca, IDFA, Hot Docs, Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Hammer Museum, Miami Art Basel and Moscow International Film Festival. He has been a Film Independent Fast Track Fellow, a Gotland Film Lab resident at the Ingmar Bergman Estate and a Berlinale Talent.

Princess A. Hairston
Editor

Princess is an editor & filmmaker in NYC. Princess was supervising editor for Pier Kids which premiered at DOCNYC. She was an editor on Fresh Dressed, an official 2015 Sundance Film Festival selection, and edited the first two episodes of the Emmy-nominated series Capture with Mark Seliger. Princess was selected for the 2019 DCTV Docu WIP Lab. She is a 2018 recipient of the Karen Schmeer Editing Fellowship and a 2018 Winner of the NYTVF + WEtv Producer Pitch. Princess is a proud member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia and the Alliance of Editors

Matthew Head
Composer

Matthew Head creates Grammy-nominated as well as Emmy, NAACP Image, and Peabody Award-winning soundtracks while working out of the home he grew up in Marietta, Georgia. The family man’s work includes two seasons of OWN’s Greenleaf, BET’s Boomerang, two seasons of Carl Weber’s The Family Business on BET+, P-Valley on Starz, and going it solo as a music producer after collaborating with Timbaland on Step Up: High Water Season 3.

Marquise Stillwell
Executive Producer

Marquise Stillwell is a filmmaker, designer and a catalyst for building communities across art and culture. He believes that we can help inform the future of communities by thinking about people first and by building evidence through storytelling. Marquise co-founded Opendox in order to tell lesser-known narratives around art, science, nature, and politics. With Opendox, he produced Shield and Spear, The Limestone Conflict and The New Bauhaus.

dream hampton
Executive Producer

dream hampton is an award-winning filmmaker and writer from Detroit. Her most recent works include the Frameline feature documentary Treasure (2015), the BET docu-series Finding Justice (2019) and Lifetime's Emmy nominated Surviving R. Kelly (2019), which broke ratings records and earned a Peabody Award. In 2019 hampton was named one of TIME 100's most influential people in the world.

Tyler Brodie
Co-Executive Producer

Tyler Brodie co-founded Verisimilitude, DFA Records and Cinema Conservancy. His Executive Producer credits include Pi, Towheads, The Wolfpack, The Public Image is Rotten and Ted K. He lives in Maine and makes stuff.

Grand Slam Film
Co-Producer

Eliza Jones and Markus Waltå founded Grand Slam Film in 2015, while graduating with their BA’s as film producers at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. They have produced a number of short and mid-length feature films that have been selected to some of the world finest film festivals (Cannes, Berlinale, Sundance, Toronto), and are now producing their first features. 

Kaktus Film
Character Animation & VFX

Kaktus Film is one of Sweden’s most experienced and acclaimed 3D animation, visual effects and motion design studios. Kaktus Film produces high end animation in a wide range of fields such as feature film, music videos, branding and commercials. Recently, Kaktus Film produced all the vfx for the Swedish sci-fi film, Aniara, which won them the 2019 Guldbagge award (Swedish Oscar) for Best Visual Effects.

Advisors

Lisa Dent, Curator & Teacher
Lisa Dent is a curator, teacher and the Executive Director of Artspace New Haven.

dream hampton, Filmmaker & Activist
dream hampton is an award-winning filmmaker and activist from Detroit.

Katie Jentleson, Curator
Katie Jentleson is the Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self‑Taught Art​ at the High Museum.

Lee Kogan, Curator Emertia
Lee Kogan is the curator emerita at the American Folk Art Museum.

Cathi Perry, Family Member
Cathi Perry is the President of the Judith Alexander Foundation and the great-great-niece of Nellie Mae Rowe.

Supporters

This World is Not My Own is supported by the Swedish Film Institute, the New York State Council on the Arts, Cinema Conservancy, Jewish Story Partners, the Judith Alexander Foundation, and the David Schwartz Foundation.

We’ve also received support from the American Embassy in Kuwait, the Swedish Embassy in UAE, and many generous donors.

Additional support provided by the High Museum of Art, Independent Filmmaker Project and Opendox ORG.