Greg Dicharry – Director / Producer
Most Recently Greg co-directed and co-produced the award-winning feature-length documentary, Suicide The Ripple Effect which was released in theaters in March 2018. The film has had over 500 screenings worldwide with over 40,000 attendees, and will be released on DVD and online summer of 2019.
Greg started chasing his film career in 1993 when he moved to Hollywood after college. He immediately began working on a variety of projects including feature films OutBreak - starring Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding and Morgan Freeman, as well as Mirage - starring Sean Young and Edward James Almos. He also worked on numerous music videos, commercials and live shows for VH1 and MTV.
He later returned home to New Orleans to co-found the video production company Verge Entertainment where he produced and directed numerous film and video projects including the TV pilot "Tribe TV," which received a regional Emmy Award; "Heroin the Real Deal," a heroin prevention film featuring surviving members of the band Sublime and "Go Cat Go," an EPK for music legend Carl Perkins.
Greg's film career was diverted by mental illness and drug addiction and after finding personal recovery he became committed to helping others do the same. For the last 11 years, he has been serving as the national youth empowerment director for Magellan Health, leading MY LIFE one of the nation's premier youth programs focused on empowering young people with mental health, substance abuse, and foster care challenges, a program he created.
Greg is recognized as a national leader in mental health recovery and has received awards for his work by the nation's leading mental health organizations including SAMHSA (Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration), The National Council for Behavioral Health, National Federation of Families of Children's Mental Health and Mental Health America.
Simeon Hutner – Film Editor and Producer
Simeon is an award-winning documentary editor, director and producer whose work focuses on social justice issues.
Two of his recent projects will be released in 2019 and have already received critical acclaim. Cooked, directed by Judith Helfand, is a documentary feature about the 1995 heat wave in Chicago that killed 739 people; it premiered at DOC NYC in November 2018. When We Walk, directed by Jason DaSilva, is the sequel to the Emmy Award winning When I Walk, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013, and which Simeon also worked on.
He was the editor for the film Vessel, a documentary feature produced by Sovereignty Productions and directed by Diana Whitten, that premiered at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Award for Political Courage and the Audience Award. It was shown to over 300 international audiences, including the 2014 Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, where it was the winner of the Peter Wintonick Award; the 2014 Telluride Mountain Film Festival, where it won Honorable Mention for the Moving Mountains Prize; and the 2014 Nantucket Film Festival, where it was the winner of the Adrienne Shelly Excellence in Filmmaking Award. It had its theatrical release in 2015.
He was also the editor of the Academy Award-nominated Chicks in White Satin and was a producer and editor for the long running reality show Dog the Bounty Hunter.
He received a MFA magna cum laude in Film Production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he received the Phi Kappa Phi award and the Distinguished Scholar Scholarship. He received a BA in English Literature cum laude from Middlebury College and a MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business.