Credits

PROdUCTION TEAm

PRODUCTION TEAM

Ron Lamothe
(Producer-Director)

Ron is a documentary filmmaker and historian. Prior to Missing Kenley, Lamothe produced and directed The Call of the Wild, a reflexive experiment in cinéma vérité revisiting the travels and legacy of Chris McCandless, which screened worldwide at film festivals in 2007–2008 and was broadcast for the next six years in the PBS system. Lamothe’s first feature-length documentary, The Political Dr. Seuss, aired as the 2004 season premiere of PBS’s acclaimed Independent Lens series, and the film continues to be used in high school and college curricula throughout the United States. In addition to his filmmaking, Lamothe is an associate professor at Lesley University, teaching courses in world and African history as well as documentary film.

James Fideler
(Director of Photography)

James is an award-winning cinematographer based in Brooklyn. He most recently shot the CNN Films feature-length documentary Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President (Opening Night Film Tribeca Film Festival 2020). He has filmed the HBO Emmy-award winning documentary Assault in the Ring, as well as the PBS American Masters episode Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound. His cinematography has been featured in films such as The Zen of Bennett alongside cinematographer Dion Beebe, ESPN’s 30 for 30 episode Renée, about the first and only transgender person to play in the U.S. Open, as well as the mythological boxing story No Mas: Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Roberto Duran.

Alex Salter
(Sound Recordist)

Alex, a native Nova Scotian, has been working with sound for picture for over thirty years, as both a sound recordist and sound designer/editor. Over the course of his career, he has worked with many filmmakers and travelled the world to locations in Africa, India, Papua New Guinea, Bhutan, Greenland, and the Canadian Arctic. He has worked on over seventy National Film Board of Canada productions and has received numerous awards and nominations, including four Gemini nominations and a Gemini win for Men of the Deeps (2003). His most recent credits include Assholes: A Theory (2019), Love, Scott (2018), Bluefin (2016), and Quebec My Country Mon Pays (2016).

Mark Zaki
(Composer)

Mark is a composer and violinist whose commercial credits include work on more than fifty films, television programs, theater productions, and recordings for companies such as PBS, Paramount TV, Disney, Touchstone Pictures, Buena Vista Pictures, Sony/Classical, and Chandos. Notable projects include original scores for the dramatic feature film The Eyes of van Gogh and the Peabody award nominated PBS documentary The Political Dr Seuss. His film work also includes both onscreen and soundtrack performances in Lasse Hallstrom’s Casanova, the American release of Miyazaki’s Kiki’s Delivery Service, Martin Scorsese’s The Key to Reserva, and the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce. Mark holds a Ph.D. degree in composition from Princeton University and is a professor of music at Rutgers University.

Mark Zaki