THE REAGAN SHOW

Pacho Velez

Pacho Velez won a Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival with Manakamana (co-directed with Stephanie Spray). His earlier film and theater work have been presented at venues such as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and on Japanese National Television. He is currently a Princeton Arts Fellow.

FILMOGRAFIA

Pacho Velez:
Occupation (coregia/codirector Maple Razsa, mm, doc., 2002), Orphans of Mathare (coregia/codirector Randy Bell, doc., 2003), Bastards of Utopia (coregia/codirector Maple Razsa, mm, 2011), Manakamana (coregia/codirector Stephanie Spray, 2013), Dragstrip (coregia/codirector Daniel Claridge, cm, 2015).

Pacho Velez, Sierra Pettengill:
The Reagan Show (doc., 2017).

Sierra Pettengill

Is a Brooklyn based filmmaker. Her work focuses on the warped narratives of the American past. Most recently, she directed the archival short The Rifleman, which premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Her 2017 feature-length film, the all-archival documentary The Reagan Show, co-directed with Pacho Velez, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival before airing on CNN. She directed the Big Dan’s Tavern episode of the Netflix series Trial by Media about the first televised rape trial in the U.S. Her 2018 all-archival short film, Graven Image, aired on POV and is held at the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. In 2013 she produced the Academy Award-nominated film Cutie and the Boxer, which also won an Emmy Award for Best Documentary, and co-directed (with Jamila Wignot) Town Hall about the emergent Tea Party movement, for PBS. She has also worked as an archival researcher for many artists including Jim Jarmusch and Adam Pendleton. She was a Sundance Institute Art of Nonfiction Fellow, a fellow at the Yaddo and MacDowell colonies, and is a board member of Screen Slate.

FILMOGRAFIA

Town Hall (coregia Jamila Wignot, doc, 2013), New Year Part 1 (coregia Adam Shecter, cm, doc, 2014), The Reagan Show (coregia Pacho Velez, doc, 2017), Graven Image (cm, doc, 2017), Big Dan’s Tavern (ep. Trial by Media, Processi mediatici, tv, doc, 2020), The Business of Thought: A Recorded History of Artists Space (cm, doc, 2020), The Rifleman (cm, doc, 2021), Riotsville, Usa (doc, 2022).