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Jeremy Coon (Executive Producer / Founder)

Jeremy Coon produced and edited NAPOLEON DYNAMITE (Sundance Film Festival, 2004) which has become one of the most profitable and culturally impactful indie films in history.   Jeremy also produced, edited and directed A DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE, which premiered at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival; produced and edited THE SASQUATCH […]

Barry Poltermann (creative director/Founder)

Barry is a producer, director, story supervisor and editor, primarily working in documentary whose most recent project is the 6-part docu-series THE LAST MOVIE STARS for director Ethan Hawke and Executive Producer Martin Scorsese (Cannes, 2022). He has edited several acclaimed feature films, including AMERICAN MOVIE (Sundance Grand Prize Winner, […]

Denis Henry Hennelly (director)

Denis Henry Hennelly has directed four feature films – Rock The Bells (Warner Home Video), Bold Native, and Goodbye World (Samuel Goldwyn Films), and The Animal People. The critically acclaimed documentary Rock The Bells premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and earned comparisons to Gimme Shelter and Woodstock. Premiere called it “outright exhilarating,” and The Village Voice hailed it […]

Frank Anderson (writer/director)

Understatement Alert: Frank has led an interesting life. Born in the Philippines. Raised in rural Wisconsin. Played pedal steel guitar bars and beer halls as a teenager. After a stint as a ranch hand at a working cattle ranch he attended San Francisco State University, majoring in Japanese language and […]

Michael Vollmann (senior editor)

Michael Vollmann is best known for co-editing (with editor Jeff Gilbert) the 2020 Sundance Grand Prize winning documentary, BOYS STATE. His most recent work is as the lead editor and co-writer of the four part Netflix series THE ROMANTICS, the story of Yash Chopra and two generations of Bollywood filmmaking […]

Chris James Thompson (director)

Chris James Thompson is an award-winning director whose first feature film The Jeffrey Dahmer Files premiered in competition at the SXSW Film Festival (2012), became a New York Times Critics Pick, and was acquired by IFC for distribution. He also recently completed a short documentary MECCA, which was released by EPSN as part of their ’30-for-30′ series […]

Matt Prekop (senior editor)

Matt recently completed works as a lead editor are on the Netflix productions of MELTDOWN: THREE MILE ISLAND, and MURDER AMONG THE MORMONS. He also worked as a supporting editor on Ethan Hawke’s acclaimed docs-series THE LAST MOVIE STARS. Previously to that, he was a lead editor on the 8-part Netflix […]

Tim Irwin (director)

Tim Irwin grew up on skateboarding and punk rock.  It was a video production class in high school that first put a camera in his hands and he began shooting his friends skateboarding and making documentaries about his friends bands.  That’s where it began and he hasn’t stopped pointing his […]

Casey Suchan (director and Creative Director)

Casey Suchan directed ROCK THE BELLS, a Warner Brothers documentary on the final performance of hip-hop artists Wu-Tang Clan, which premiered at Tribeca where it was picked up for distribution by Warner Brothers. Recently Casey directed THE ANIMAL PEOPLE — a feature documentary for Executive Producer Joaquin Phoenix about a precedent setting […]

Denise McKee (Operations)

Named as one of the top 40 Digital Strategists in the nation by the Online Marketing Institute, Denise is a frequent speaker and author on storytelling and documentary. Her most recent book is “THE ELECTRIC CAMPFIRE: A Marketer’s Guide to Documentary Storytelling.”

Chris Smith (co-founder)

An accomplished filmmaker, Chris’ films include American Job (1996 Sundance Film Festival), American Movie (1999, Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, Sony Pictures Classics), Home Movie (2001, Sundance Film Festival), The Yes Men (2004, United Artists), The Pool (2008, Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival), and most recently Collapse, which premiered at […]

Dan Didier (production supervisor)

If you’ve ever heard songs by influential indie band The Promise Ring or his current acclaimed band Maritime, you’ve heard Dan’s music — he was a founding member and drummer for both bands. Dan’s primary role at September Club is as the Post Production Supervisor, which means that he oversees […]

Dave Myszewski (editor)

Dave Myszewski is a video editor, animator, motion graphics artist, and videographer.

Brian Palmer (editor)

Brian Palmer’s most recent film as an editor is WHIRLYBIRD, which premiered to great acclaim at Sundance in 2020. He is a frequent collaborator as an editor with Clay Week and producer Seth Gordon on films such as FINDERS KEEPERS, which premiered at the Sundance film festival in 2015; and GLEASON, which […]

Sasha Perry (editor)

Sasha Perry (they/them) is a documentary editor with over a decade of experience in TV and film. Sasha was an editor and producer on the 2020 Netflix documentary, THE ANIMAL PEOPLE and an editor on a number of other recently-released films including I AM NOT ALONE (Toronto International Film Festival, 2019) and […]

John Lyons Murphy (writer)

Most recently, Murphy co-directed and produced Kingdom Come, a documentary film that chronicles aspiring filmmaker Daniel Gillies’ quest to make his first feature.  The doc features such independent film and Hollywood icons as Mark Ruffalo, Don Cheadle, Edward Burns, Selma Blair, Seth Green, Nicole Holofcener, Robert Townsend, and Bruce Campbell.  […]

David Dahlman (biz dev)

Dave grew up loving the Harold Lloyd slapstick comedies.  “Daring, ridiculous, and funny… but enough about me,” he jokes.  “Lloyd was very simple, and very inventive, and I think that’s the essence of effective communication and storytelling.” Dave has also directed and shot some of his own documentaries (including “The […]

Jack Turner

A fine arts graduate of the University of Vermont, Turner has grown into a successful film producer with critically acclaimed credits. Out of college, he was hired as receptionist for October Films in New York City and spent much of his time reading movie treatments and learning what makes a […]

Patrick Buckley

Beginning his career as a production assistant on “American Movie”, Pat has since produced hundreds of television commercials and long format works for clients like Nike, Miller Brewing, Thule, Wilson Sports, Under Armour, Firestone, and Trek Bicycle among others. He has worked with and for production companies like @radical media, […]

Ryan Dembroski (producer)

Starting at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, Ryan was planning to be a doctor.  Until he got to Organic Chemistry. “On the first day of class, they had a quiz,” Ryan recalls.  “I sat there looking at questions about all of the things I was supposed to remember about […]

Steve Roeder

Steve began his career as an agency art director. He then worked various positions on the AICP from gripping to art department, finally settling on producing. For the past two decades, Steve has brought his attention to detail and can-do spirit to hundreds of productions. He listens and engages, priding […]

Erin Elders (editor)

Erin Elders is a director, writer and editor who studied film / video at Columbia College in Chicago, where he helped found the band Maps & Atlases. The band released two EPs, two full length albums, and toured internationally. Editing and directing music videos and web content for M&A brought Elders […]

Jonny Leahan (producer)

Jonny began as a writer for IndieWire and later began making films, first as an Associate Producer on the Tribeca award-winner Oxyana and on the recent SXSW hit Tchoupitoulas, just released by Oscilloscope. He later Produced Tom Noonan’s The Shape of Something Squashed, and worked as Executive Producer on Jonathan Caouette’s The Tic and The Toc. His […]

Amanda Griffin (editor)

Amanda Griffin is a film editor based in Los Angeles. Originally from the Midwest, she graduated from The University of Iowa with a BA in Cinema and Comparative Literature in 2010. She found that Filmmaking was a way to combine her interests in fine art, film theory, and photography. She has […]

Manny Marquez (director)

Manny directed the feature documentary, Psychopath and the acclaimed short documentary, Operation Allie, which premiered at the prestigious Big Sky Film Festival and played festivals across America. He has done an extensive amount of branded documentary work for September Club and is also known for his documentary-inspired music video work. Works […]

Jack Davidson (director)

Jack Davidson has been directing film and video since 1997. His work in both the commercial and documentary arenas has taken him all over North America and Europe.  Specializing in day-in-the-life storytelling of real people, Jack has an eye for the beauty and humor in the unusual and in the […]

Erik Ljung (director)

Erik Ljung is a Producer and Director of Photography who has directed / produced / shot content and short documentaries for the New York Times, VICE News, Al Jazeera, PBS and the Wall Street Journal. He is a current Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellow, and is currently working on a documentary […]