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Leigh Morfoot Jason Morfoot Co-director, Producer, Sound Recordist Co-director, Cameraman, Editor University of Virginia, B.A. African-American Studies & English Trinity College, B.A. History The New School, M.A. Media Studies Emory University School of Law, J.D.
We cut our filmmaking teeth with the Maysles Films family and have been producing Direct Cinema inspired shorts for international companies, academic institutions, and local non-profits, as well as independent films, for twenty years. Throughout this time, one or the other of us has been a full-time staff member in the documentary division at the American Museum of Natural History in New York (ANMH) making short films about scientific research and field work: Leigh as Production Manager for nine years and Jason, who is now on staff, as Senior Producer and Editor for fifteen years. Our Capital: Impressions of Early Empire (2004), was selected for the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin exhibition, Citizen 3.0 (2008) went to Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin and is distributed by Filmakers Library, and In-between Worlds premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival (2014). We received a LEF/CIFF Fellowship from Points North Institute for School District, Artist Fellowships from Connecticut Office of the Arts, and Leigh was a 2022 Flaherty Fellow.
We have four sons ages 11 to 20.