Filmmakers


Cheryl Green  ::: Producer, Co-Director

Email me at cheryl at StoryMinders dot com.

Black and white photo of Cheryl, a white Ashkenazi Jewish woman with olive complexion, shoulder-length, curly dark hair, and gray-green eyes. She stands in front of a rough brick wall and stone wall smiling for the camera.

Bio: Cheryl Green, MFA, MS is an independent Access Artist with a focus as a captioner, audio describer, and multi-media digital artist. She’s a 2017 AIR New Voices Scholar, 2020 DOC NYC Documentary New Leader, 2023 Rockwood Documentary Leaders Fellow, Co-op Member and former Digital Operations Lead at New Day Films, a member of the Social Audio Description Collective, and co-host of Blind-Centered Audio Description Chat. Her audio and written blog, transcribed podcast, Pigeonhole, and documentary films are at www.WhoAmIToStopIt.com. She reported and produced one episode for the Peabody-nominated Season 2 of 70 Million. Find her TBI-related short films on BrainLine.org. Cheryl brings her lived experience with multiple invisible disabilities and chronic illness to creating media that explores politically and culturally engaged stories from cross-disability communities with creative access at the heart of all of her work.

Cheryl writes and audio records all of the post on this blog and also produces and transcribes all of the podcast episodes linked on the site. She is also available for public speaking, CEU trainings for rehabilitation clinicians, and panel discussions at community screenings and in college classes about brain injury, disability, art, and making media accessible.

For inquiries regarding Q&As, panel participation, interviews, and presentations, please check out Cheryl Green’s Access Rider first. Longer bio and image descriptions for photos are available on request.

Check out Cheryl’s CV.

Past Film and Documentary Work

  • “TBI & My Longest Ride (2020): Producer, Co-Editor, camera, location sound
  • “Stinky Chicken Dog” (2018) and “Stinky Chicken Dog 2” (2019), Documentary shorts: Co-Director, Producer, Co-Editor, camera, location sound. “Stinky Chicken Dog 2” selected for Superfest International Disability Film Festival, 2019
  • “After Fairview,” 2018, Documentary short: Director, Producer, Editor, camera, location sound. 3rd Place in CDRNYS Free Our People Film Festival
  • “In My Home,” 2017, Documentary short: Director, Producer, Editor, camera, location sound. 1st Place in CDRNYS Free Our People Film Festival
  • “Who Am I To Stop It,” 2016, Feature documentary: Co-director, Producer, Distributed through New Day Films
  • “Becoming Bulletproof,” 2015, Feature documentary: Outreach Director
  • “Paper Visions,” 2013, Documentary short: Director, Producer, Editor, camera, location sound
  • “The Tablet Shorts, Out,” 2013, Narrative Fiction and Non-fiction Shorts:  Producer, camera, location sound, design
  • “Friending with Brain Injury!,” 2012, Narrative Fiction Short: Writer, Director, Co-producer, co-star
  • “Cooking with Brain Injury,” 2011, Narrative Fiction Short: Writer, Co-director, co-star
  • “Witness Our Schools,” 2004, Statewide documentary theatre project by Sojourn Theatre: Lead Interviewer, Project Manager, Dramaturg

Grants

  • Regional Arts & Culture Council Project Grant recipient:  2012 Artistic Focus; 2013 Community Participation; 2014 Artistic Focus; 2017 Professional Development; 2018 Artistic Focus; 2019 Artistic Focus and Innovation Award

Cynthia J. Lopez ::: Producer, Co-Director

Email me at EleusisFilms at gmail dot com

Portrait of Cynthia, a white woman with shoulder-length red hair tied back into ponytails. She stands by a barn door, smiling.

Cynthia Lopez, MA, MUS, is interested in how we express values through narrative forms. She made her first film on Super 8 at age eleven in a llama pasture and soon thereafter began documenting the world around her with tools such as a cassette tape recorder and her parents’ VHS camera. She worked toward a career as a qualitative researcher who was deeply interested in exploring ethnographic methodologies, but found that the medium of film was more suited to her desire to create visual narratives. She currently produces documentaries and educational videos through Eleusis Films.