The Producers

Brian Pearle – Director, Producer, Writer

Brian Pearle is a director, producer, and writer of documentary films. In 2017, Pearle won a Writers Guild Award for Best Documentary Screenplay for Command and Control, which aired on the PBS series American Experience and was short-listed for the 2017 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 2014 Pearle co-produced Robert Kenner’s Merchants of Doubt, which was released through Sony Pictures Classics. He is a senior producer at Sunnyboy Entertainment.

Dylan Nelson – Producer, Writer

Dylan is an Emmy- and Producers Guild Award-nominated documentary filmmaker. Most recently, she produced the 2025 documentary feature The Stamp Thief, which investigates a Holocaust mystery, and directed the 2022 documentary feature Mississippi Messiah, about civil rights iconoclast James Meredith. Her documentaries have screened worldwide, won Peabody and Emmy Awards, and been shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Ryan Loeffler – Editor, Producer, Writer

Ryan Loeffler is a documentary editor and producer. He edited Food, Inc. 2 and is currently editing the Showtime documentary series Couples Therapy, for which he was nominated for an ACE Eddie Award in 2024. Other credits include the Spanish language documentary !Viva Maestro! (2022), Netflix’s The Confession Killer (2019), Betting on Zero (2016), the Emmy-winning LA 92 (2017), Command and Control (2016), Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015), and Merchants of Doubt (2014).

Clay Haskell – Director of Photography, Producer

Clay Haskell is a cinematographer, writer, and director who has shot projects all over the world. His work has been broadcast globally on Showtime, Netflix, BBC, CBC, CBS, PBS, NHK, Amazon Prime and AppleTV+. Haskell documented the handover of Hong Kong in photographs as one of the first Fulbright Fellows to China. His documentary projects include Mississippi Messiah (Big Sky 2022), HOME (AppleTV+ 2019) and The Hollywood Complex (Hot Docs/Showtime 2011).