Caroline Savery – Director/Co-Producer

Caroline Savery has been producing and directing digital video productions for ten years. Her ongoing aesthetic interest in experimenting with genre conventions has lead her to produce nearly two dozen short videos experimenting with a broad range of genres, including horror, comedy, music video, futuristic drama, and documentary, with a preference for subjective, reflexive and experimental storytelling. As a long-time community activist, she has always had a personal passion for merging social issues with video, resulting in several creative nonfiction and educational video projects. Her first nonfiction film, a short documentary about Beatlemania, won the Regional Individual Media Award for the National History Day competitions in 2000. She has since won several awards for her video production and academic achievement. During high school, she attended the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts magnet school for Film + TV, and was awarded the Outstanding Student Achievement award in 2004 from the film and television department. In 2008, she graduated Summa Cum Laude from Point Park University with a B.A. in Cinema & Digital Arts, with concentrations in Producing and Directing, and was one of seven finalists university-wide for the Outstanding Graduating Senior award.

Since 2000, Caroline has also consistently served in leadership capacities on various creative, non-profit and activist projects throughout Connecticut and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, preferring to work in collaborative frameworks. She designed and headed up the ambitious Sust Enable series, an independent eight-part online educational episode series about living within a “one-Earth” ecological footprint. Her intriguing mixed experiences while working on Sust Enable lead her to challenge her own assumptions about the nature of sustainability, and what she is learning is the fuel inspiring her full dedication to producing and directing The Metamentary.

Jon Skocik - Director of Photography

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Luke Ohlson – Production Manager

Luke Ohlson graduated Cum Laude from New York University in 2008 with a Cinema Studies degree. While in New York, Luke worked with a documentary and experimental film archive, compiled a senior thesis on The Collective for Living Cinema, and was active in student organizing on campus. After thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail in 2009 Luke moved to Pittsburgh. He is currently involved with Pittsburgh Filmmakers and continues to direct and produce short films. As Production Manager he will be responsible for coordinating the film’s budget with its fundraising timeline and shooting schedule. He will also assist the production in its outreach and marketing efforts.

Luke eagerly approached The Metamentary because of his own interest in documentary and artistic inquiry. He is excited to see this film reach its potential to meld community activism with artistic experimentation. He is confident that the production’s process and product can become a means to empowerment for both artists and communities.

Nate Savery – Sustainability Research Advisor

Nate Savery is an in(ter)dependent designer and researcher. He recently received his Master’s degree from the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he studied contemporary theories of communication and technology in relation to larger questions of complexity within human experience, the structure of reality, and the connections among actions, perceptions, and the material world.

As a research advisor to The Metamentary, Nate is involved in helping to sort out and connect up the diverse research perspectives that can be brought to bear on the complex problem of sustainability explored in the film. He believes strongly that the unique mix of art, activism, and academic research driving this project provides a powerful means to open up deeper collective explorations of the complex interdependency of human life and ecological relations.

Meg Koleck – First Assistant Director

Meg Koleck is in her junior year at the University of Pittsburgh studying film and anthropology. Her role as the A.D. for Sust Enable: The Metamentary is her first crew position. Meg has directed and acted in numerous short films. She plans on working in film production upon graduation in the spring of 2013. She hopes to eventually shift from production roles to casting later in her career. Meg’s interest in sustainable living as well as documentary filmmaking led her to work on this project. She has high hopes for the film and is eager to see how it affects the Pittsburgh community.

Sarah Megyesy – Producing Assistant