The film went on to win 14 other festival awards and earned an IFP/Gotham nomination for outstanding directorial debut. His debut feature, THE DOE BOY, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, winning the prestigious Sundance/NHK Award. Randy Redroad is a Los Angeles based writer/director/editor. In addition, Harold was selected for a competitive fellowship for the 2021 RespectAbility Lab for Entertainment Professionals with Disabilities. He also wrote, produced, directed, and acted in “Smell the Nature” for 2021 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge.Ĭurrently, Harold is training with The Groundlings, an improvisation and sketch comedy theatre & school based in Los Angeles, California. Harold has been involved in numerous film, television, and stage productions as “The Actor Whisperer,” “For My Woman,” “Audism Unveiled,” Deaf West Theatre and Pasadena Playhouse “Our Town”, Playwrights Horizons’ “I Was Alive With You” (NYC Off Broadway Production), National Theatre of the Deaf 2020 Online Playwrights Convening. Also, Harold performed in the Palm Springs International Virtual Comedy Festival 2020. Louis, Los Angeles, Jamaica and most notably at Busboys & Poets, the National Black Deaf Advocates Conference, Theatre of Note (Hollywood), the National Association of the Deaf, Laugh Factory, and Flappers Comedy Club. He is best known for his stand-up comedy, which he has performed across the nation in D.C., Albuquerque, New Mexico, Baltimore, Detroit, St. He graduated from, and played football for, Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. Harold was born in Memphis, Tennessee and now resides in Los Angeles, California. He launched “The Harold Foxx Show”, an online entertainment brand featuring comedic skits on various social media platforms. Harold Eugene Catron Jr, better known by his stage name Harold Foxx, is a comedic, writer, producer, and actor who happens to be Deaf. She has served on the selection committee for the International Documentary Association’s documentary awards, presently teaches documentary film production at the New York Film Academy, and is co-chairperson of the Black Association of Documentary Filmmakers-West.
She most recently served as series producer of “Where Cultures Collide”, a 5-part web series for KCETLink. She was the coordinating producer on “For Peace Sake”, the 2-hour NBC-TV special which won four Emmy’s, as well as the “Motown 40: The Music is Forever” documentary special for ABC-TV, and has been a segment producer for Discovery Channel, Fox TV, E! Entertainment, and the Odyssey Channel. In the area of documentary and broadcast journalism, she was writer and field producer for four internationally-shot documentaries, including “NGONE’S STORY: A Tale of Africa’s Orphans”, which aired on NBC affiliate stations as well as the feature “Hollywood Musicals: Singing and Dancing” which screened at the Palm Springs Film Festival and as a 4-part series for PBS.
Atin and Mae are Co-directing another feature documentary film, HER SONG, which is currently in post-production. BEING MICHELLE is Atin’s directorial debut.ĭenise Hamilton has over 30 years experience as a writer and producer for NBC, ABC and PBS network specials and syndicated programs. In 2007 he started his own production company, Orange Kite Productions. Atin lived and worked in India until 2005, when he moved to the United States with his wife, Mae Thornton Mehra. One of the first films he worked on was about female victims of dowry burnings - a project he was forced to abandon when he started receiving death threats. In 2002, Atin directed and shot his first short film, MITTI KE JIVAN (THE CYCLE OF CLAY) about a potter from the Kumhar caste. Atin's uncanny ability to connect with individuals from behind the lens eventually led him into filmmaking. His own personal struggles with abuse and discrimination in India drew him to stories of underrepresented and marginalized individuals and communities.
In 1999 Atin picked up his first camera and began taking photographs. Atin Mehra was born and raised in Varanasi, India and currently resides with his family in Los Angeles, CA.