T-Rex: Her Fight for Gold

Drea Cooper is an American filmmaker and commercial director. He’s part of the directing team that produced the award-winning short documentary series California Is a Place. With over 10 million views online, the films have screened at film festivals around the world, including Sundance in 2012. The series’ compelling visual style and deeply personal storytelling has earned Cooper awards from IDFA DocLab for best digital storytelling and documentary project of the year by POYi. He’s also directed long form projects for PBS, MTV, and MSNBC. Cooper has done award-winning commercial work for Chevy, Ray-Ban, Apple, Google, and Toyota. He recently landed on Filmmaker Magazine’s Top 25 New Filmmakers to Watch list.

Zackary Canepari is an filmmaker and photographer specializing in documentary. Born in 1979 in Boston, Canepari studied photography in Paris and San Francisco, and has lived to New Delhi, India. As a photojournalist his work has taken him to India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Mexico, China, Brazil, Eastern Europe, and Nigeria for a number of clients, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Time magazine. In 2009, Zack teamed up with filmmaker Drea Cooper and created "California Is a Place," a series of short documentary films about California that screened at a number of international festivals, including Sundance and IDFA. Canepari is a Sony Global Imaging Ambassador, a member of Panos Pictures in London, and a commercial director with Slim Pictures in Los Angeles.

Sue Jaye Johnson is a Peabody Award-winning journalist and producer who spearheaded an unprecedented collaboration between The New York Times, NPR, and WNYC to tell the story of the first women to box in the Olympic games. Her series included a photo spread in The New York Times Magazine, video essays on NYTimes.com, and four radio stories for public radio. Johnson and Joe Richman of Radio Diaries gave Claressa Shields a microphone and recorder to document her journey to the Olympic Trials. Teen Contender aired on NPR’s All Things Considered in February 2012 to an audience of 12 million listeners, and won the Gold Medal Award, the Third Coast Audio Festival Award, and a Peabody Award.