Meet the Team
Director/Producer/Cinematographer
Cece King
Cece is a filmmaker from NYC. SI LA ISLA QUIERE is her first film as a director. She is currently archival producing for the new Gurinder Chadha movie produced by Maven Screen Media. She previously worked with Emmy-nominated producer Debi Wisch on several films, including the 2022 art documentary and SXSW Audience Award winner “The Art of Making It,” which featured her archival footage. She assistant-edited Liz Plank’s forthcoming “Not So Special” on disability rights. She has also made a series of award-winning shorts. Cece is also an aerial circus artist and choreographer who loves to travel and learn about people and places all over the world.
Producer
Elsa Hana Chung
Elsa is an NYC-based filmmaker and writer whose work primarily engages in themes of identity and the ethics of (re)presentation. She has worked at production companies such as Florentine Films, Nine Stories Productions, and Assemble Media, and she collaborated with filmmakers Christie Herring and Professor Estelle Freedman on the crowdfunding campaign for their upcoming documentary “Singing for Justice”. She is an alumni of the Ghetto Film School, British American Drama Academy, and the Stella Adler Conservatory. Elsa studied Film and Media Studies at Columbia University, and she currently works at All3Media International.
Co-Producer
Camilla Marchese
Camilla is a writer and filmmaker from Guatemala. She is passionate about global stories, both in narrative and non-fiction, that tell character-driven stories from unique and authentic perspectives. Her short films have screened at Athena Film Festival and she was awarded the Howard Teichmann Writing Prize for her writing thesis, by Columbia University. With previous experience in film development, production and distribution, Camilla is currently a free-lance producer and works on Latin-American cinema distribution for Cinema Tropical.
Editor
Cristina Carrasco Hernández
Assistant Editor
Nacho Padron
Composer
Christian McGhee
Composer
Katie Hoover
Drone Cinematographer
Kenneth de Rodt
Impact Coordinator
Alexandra Rego