About 1 — The Story Road

“Live a Great Story”

Joey Xanders lives by this motto. She is the co-creator and founding Executive, and Artistic Director of The Moth. She has worked at Actual Films, a prominent documentary film company, and later produced a feature-length documentary that led to the creation of The Carol Emmott Fellowship for Women Leaders in Healthcare. She managed a group of musical artists and successfully secured a publishing contract with Warner Chappell. She spent three years working in Tech as a Culture Manager and Producer of Events and Videos. She writes stories, she tells stories, and she just can’t be tied down! Joey lives on the edge, is comfortable being a risk-taker, and loves people's stories in her heart of hearts. read more…

Maruf Noyoft is an award-winning filmmaker whose films have been official selections at the Lisbon Film Rendezvous Festival in Portugal, Varesh International Film Festival in Mazandaran, Iran and Universe Multicultural Film Festival Los Angeles. Maruf graduated with honors from the University of Art and Culture of Tajikistan and began working for a local production company in the capital city, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. There he cut his teeth shooting, filming, and editing stories about the rich culture and traditions of Tajikistan, with a focus on highlighting extraordinary moments in his work as a documentarian. read more…

Carlo Kamin is a Bay Area based documentary and corporate film editor with 15 years of technical and story editing experience. Carlo edited long and short format documentaries, which have screened at national and international film festivals as well on TV (PBS FRONTLINE, RTE). These films mostly reflect on social issues, historical events, and personal stories. read more…

Linda Davis Garkow is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker who produced The Force, an inside look at the troubled Oakland police department, which won the Directing Award at Sundance in 2017. She also produced The Kill Team, about a soldier in Afghanistan who attempted to report war crimes committed by his platoon, which won Best Documentary Feature at Tribeca in 2013 and was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism. Before that she produced The Waiting Room, a verite portrait of a day in the life at a public hospital in Oakland, California, which was released theatrically in 2012 to critical acclaim and won numerous awards including the Truer Than Fiction Independent Spirit award.