Shane Anderson
Director / Producer / Drone & Underwater Cinematographer
Shane has been producing films about natural history, river restoration and salmon recovery in the American West for fifteen years. He has directed seven feature documentaries including A River’s Last Chance (2018), Chehalis: A Watershed Moment (2020), Covenant of the Salmon People (2022), and The Lost Salmon (2022), winner of the 2022 NW Emmy Award for topical documentary. Shane’s work has been supported by Redford Center, Rogovy Foundation and Patagonia, and featured on Netflix, BBC, PBS, Seeker, WaterBear, and Outside Magazine. As Director of Storytelling for Pacific Rivers for many years, Shane produced films supporting conservation initiatives across the American West. His passion for storytelling is rooted in generating impact and policy change, and his work has contributed to dozens of impact and education campaigns, as well as policy initiatives in multiple states. Prior to producing documentaries, Shane was a professional downhill skier and Hollywood stuntman.
Maya Craig
Director of Photography / Producer
Maya is a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer based in San Francisco. As Director of Photography for Swiftwater, she has shot a number of films about restoration in the American West including The Lost Salmon (NW Emmy Winner 2023), Bring the Salmon Home (Jackson Media Awards finalist 2022), and Guardians of the River (EarthXFilm Impact Award 2021). Maya has been a National Geographic Explorer since 2019 looking at the global climate and geopolitical impacts of a warming Arctic, and is a DP and Producer on feature documentary Laikipia, about conservation and pastoralism in Northern Kenya. Her first documentary Water Town (2017), about a water privatization conflict in Northern California, was broadcast nationally on PBS and helped lead to the town securing its water rights. She is holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Science from Colorado College and a Master’s in Documentary Film from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Katie Falkenberger
Cinematographer
Katie Falkenberg is an independent documentary filmmaker and photojournalist based in the Pacific Northwest. She began her career in Washington, D.C., covering the White House and other domestic and international news, before heading West to join the Los Angeles Times, where she worked for nearly a decade. Her work varies widely — from environmental conservation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to the effects of U.S. immigration policy on a family in the highlands of Guatemala. Katie brings empathy to each project she works on, and strives to get to the heart of every story she tells. She believes a well-told story has the unique ability to raise awareness, build connections, and deepen understanding — no matter our differences. Katie is a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Photography for her photo essay capturing Brazil’s war on the Zika virus, “Motherhood in the Time of Zika.” She is also a recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Domestic Photography, and has been named Multimedia Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), and Pictures of the Year International (POYi).
Seth Hahn
Cinematographer
Seth is a cinematographer working across documentary, commercial, and narrative film. Always refining and re-imagining how these differing realms inform one another, he aims to bring refinement and sheen to amplify underrepresented voices in nonfiction work, while bringing grit and realism to narrative and branded film. Recent projects have brought him to film with a Gnawa musician in Morocco, a Japanese internment camp survivor, and the Mayor of Nome Alaska. Seth has worked with leading creative agencies including Venables Bell and Partners, FCB West, Pereira O'Dell, and Goodby Silverstein. A lifelong cinephile and student of cinematography, Seth continues to draw inspiration from cinematographers such as John Alton, Carlo Di Palma, and Haskell Wexler.
Jesse Clark
Drone Pilot / Timelapse Cinematographer / Editor
Jesse Clark is a narrative and documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on social justice and environmental issues. With a soft spot for timelapse and aerial cinematography, Jesse's aim is to inspire awe and wonder through the lens.
Jessie Sears
Production Coordinator / Photographer
Jessie Sears is an enrolled Karuk tribal member who is deeply committed to environmental justice and leveraging compassion through film. Outside of Undamming Klamath, she is currently a cinematographer for Oregon Public Broadcast, contributing to OPB’s Oregon Experience and Superabundant. Jessie’s work spans documentary, commercial, and narrative projects, focusing on human connections and our unity with nature. She is a member of the Portland-based Indigenous Media Guild, supporting Indigenous professionals in the Arts, Media, and Entertainment industries; as well as the Desert Island Studios collective, a production cooperative centered on BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, people with disabilities and women-led projects.
Jason Hartwick
Photographer / Timelapse Specialist
Jason is a photographer, timelapse specialist and fishing guide based out of Humboldt County. A native of Northern California, Jason grew up camping and fishing, where he started taking photographs to document the old growth redwoods and last remaining wild fish runs. A fishing guide for more than a decade, Jason knows every bend in the Klamath and is our trusted boat captain when we’re filming out on the river.
Daniel Smith
Location Sound Recordist
Daniel has been a sound mixer since 2010, and has had the opportunity to work all over the world on both documentary and narrative projects. His upbringing in an indigenous community informs his unique perspective on environmental and social justice, and he uses film, sound, and music to promote awareness of these issues.