Clarissa’s Battle (2022)

FILMMAKERS

Susan Kimberlin, Executive Producer

Tamara Perkins, Director | Producer| Writer | Educator

Tamara Perkins is an award-winning filmmaker focused on stories that inspire transformative change through dialogue, healing and advocacy through her company Apple of Discord Productions. Perkins’ films Life After Life (2018), Rebound (2021), and Clarissa’s Battle (2022) were each inspired by a personal connection to the subject matter and provide an often overlooked proximity in storytelling. She was awarded the 2022 Stowe Story Fellowship for SARA — a feature length speculative fiction script that melds present day social, moral, and ethical questions with a Queer Woman-driven SciFi thriller. 

As a national speaker, Perkins’ repertoire spans filmmaking to prison reform and human rights. Her work has connected media, activism and healing through programs such as the Wisdom Project and San Quentin Media Project — which trained justice impacted youth and system involved men in filmmaking as a tool for transformation. A recipient of Evident Change’s Media for a Just Society Award, Perkins’ work provides a catalyst for learning and advocacy for some of our nation’s most misunderstood and overlooked issues. Perkins received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and teaches film and communications at College of San Mateo, Skyline College, and Saint Mary’s College of California.

Sara Maamouri, Producer | Editor

Sara Maamouri is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker and editor who has explored a diverse range of topics for over 20 years. Her work touches on social,  educational, and political issues, from a teacher and students performing under extraordinary  circumstances (The Music’s Gonna Get You Through, 2010) to rebuilding a life in a former war  zone (Amal’s Garden, 2012). Her most recent films include We Are Not Princesses (2018) and the  Peabody Award-winning film The Judge (2017). A multilingual Tunisian educated in New York and  California, Sara brings cultural sensitivity to her editing, production, and story development, creating impact-focused narratives to attract and engage rapidly evolving audiences.  Currently, she is editing Black Mothers (scheduled to premiere spring 2022), directed by Débora Silva Souza and Clarissa’s Battle (scheduled to premiere summer 2022), directed by Tamara Perkins.

CB Smith-Dahl, Director of Photography | Associate Producer

CB Smith-Dahl has 25+ years of experience as a Camerawoman, Educator, and Producer/Director in film, television, music videos, industrial, and educational movies. An accomplished camera/lighting technician, she loves applying cinematic techniques to independent film work. In 2015, she served as Director of Photography for the documentary “All Girls Matter”, directed by Gloria Moran, which was broadcast nationally on PBS. Ms. Smith-Dahl continues to lens many of the video projects which she directs. She is also shooting for the documentaries You, Me, and the Fruit Trees, Directed by Tracey Quezada and Turn it Around, Directed by Dawn Valadez. CB founded Together Pictures with a goal of building smart, unique, and inclusive motion pictures, videos and photos.

Maria Judice – Associate Producer / Consulting Impact Producer

MARIA JUDICE is a storyteller. Through the visual, social, and mobile landscape she crafts spaces to support authentic voices in media as an IMPACT PRODUCER. She leads the charge as a producer with essential business, marketing, and creative skills. She received her M.F.A. from CalArts in Film/Video. As an award-winning writer/director, her experience ranges across new media platforms, traditional media, technology, public art/civic engagement and subject matters left of center. Maria founded INDIGO IMPACT to extend ideas, leverage reach and uplift like-minded projects. @indigoimpact

Jennifer Steinman Sternin –  Consulting  Producer

Washington D.C. Crew

AK Sandhu, Director of Photography (D.C.)

Kristen Kinsey, Production Assistant | Camera Operator (D.C.)

Lauren Flynn, Production Assistant (D.C.)

Additional Crew

Abby VanMuijen, Lead Animator and Founder Roguemark Studios

Rod Bradfield, Animator

Kassidy Corbin, Social Media Consultant

Ann Hess, Web Design and Development

Tamsen Merrill, Writer / Associate Producer

Barni Qaasim, Assistant Editor

Claire Weissbluth, Assistant Editor

Megan Hearst, Assistant Editor

Tom Disher | Disher Sound, Fundraising Trailer Sound Design

Kevin Jones, Editing Consultant | Fundraising Trailer Editor

Erin Turney, Cinematographer (Oakland)

Maya Loftin, Cinematographer (Oakland)

Jason Maze, Cinematographer (Oakland)

Marilyn Flores, Cinematographer (Oakland)

Kendall Cecchettini, Social Media, Engagement and Outreach Intern

Angelica Guiao, Social Media, Engagement and Outreach Intern

E’Lese Loren, Social Media, Engagement and Outreach Intern

Special Thanks

SFFILM Filmhouse Fellowship and Residency

Disher Sound

Made Possible with Support from

Berkeley FILM Foundation

Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation

Nancy P and Richard K Robbins Family Foundation

Bay Area Video Coalition

East Bay Community Foundation