The Team
Our Team
Mark Manning
CEO, ConceptionMedia
Director, Producer, Executive Producer
Mark Manning is an entrepreneur and award-winning documentary director of internationally acclaimed films, including The Road to Fallujah and The Cost of Silence. He is also the Founder and President of ConceptionMedia Films, a documentary film production and issue campaign company.
Langdon Page
Producer, Editor
Born and raised in Colorado, Langdon has produced and edited documentaries and features in Rome, Cairo, New York, Los Angeles, and Chile, including Oliver Stone's Persona Non Grata, Abel Ferrara's Chelsea on the Rocks and Mary, winner of the Venice Film Festival Special Jury Prize, and Discovery's Peabody…
Reuben Aaronson
Producer, Cinematographer
Oscar-nominated, multi-Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Reuben Aaronson is well known for capturing compelling honesty and beauty. His long career often focuses on humanity and subjects largely ignored by the world.
Michael Morgan
Executive producer
Michael Morgan is the executive producer. The film is based on the Odyssey program that he spearheaded. A life long actor and instructor, he has discovered that facilitating someone to go on and believe in their potential and shift their lives from destructive to productive has been his highest calling as a teacher.
Jeff Sagansky
Executive Producer
Jeff Sagansky is a long-time investor, executive, and producer in the media business. Over the past six years, Sagansky and his partner Harry Sloan have founded five special purpose acquisition companies, which acquired and took public companies including Target Hospitality, Williams Scotsman and Videocon DTH…
Mark Monroe
Writer
Mark Monroe is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose career in storytelling spans two decades. His extensive writing and producing credits include films at Sundance every year for the last 10 years.
Lauren Saffa
Editor
Lauren Saffa is a documentary film editor/producer with a passion for social justice and storytelling. She recently cut the ESPN 30 for 30 short Blackfeet Boxing about Native American girls learning boxing in self-defense. She is currently working on a new Netflix music series and is in development on a Netflix feature…
Claude Chalhoub
Composer, Violin, Viola, Synthesizers
A fluent classical musician, Claude Chalhoub has served as concertmaster of maestro Barenboim’s ‘West-Eastern Divan’ Orchestra. His debut release on Warner’s Teldec produced by Michael Brook in 2000 was a success. Diwan is the second…
Brian Hutchings
Colorist
With over 30 years of perfecting his craft, and four Oscar-nominated films including the 2014 Oscar-winning Twenty Feet From Stardom on his CV, Brian is comfortable in any genre. Although best known for color grading documentaries, he has color graded one of the Oscar opening segments with Billy Crystal…
Allison Brownmoore
Motion Graphics Design Director
Allison Brownmoore is a BAFTA-nominated Design Director. She is co-founder of Blue Spill, an award-winning boutique design studio based in Soho, London, specializing in titles, film/TV design, and creative visual effects. In 2019 she was nominated for a BAFTA Craft Award for Title Design and SXSW Excellence in…
Derek Vanderhorst
Supervising Sound Editor/Re-Recording Mixer
Motion Picture Academy member and industry veteran Derek Vanderhorst founded Summit Post in 2004. With over two decades of experience, Derek has worked on over 130 feature films, episodic television, games and new media, including in-house roles at Fox, Paramount, Universal, and Warner Brothers.
Brent Sumner
Editor Educated at Brooks Institute of Photography with an emphasis in film, Brent Sumner is a Santa Barbara documentary filmmaker who has worked on numerous productions through his company Studio 8 for nearly twenty years in locations ranging from California to Australia to Russia. His work as a cinematographer, editor, and director has ranged from reality…