From the film making team at Big Tent Productions, creators of the the award-winning
Healing From Hate: Battle for the Soul of a Nation
Lucas Sabean
Director/ Producer/ Editor
Lucas Sabean is an editor, producer and filmmaker, whose output includes independent narrative & documentary features, commercial video, and a large body of experiential work.
Co-founder of Eat the Moon Films & Big Tent Productions, he has produced & edited Healing From Hate: Battle for the Soul of a Nation (Freestyle Digital Media, Media Education Foundation), directed & edited Angry White Men: American Masculinity in the Age of Trump (Grasshopper Films) and currently producing/directing/editing Devil Put The Coal in the Ground.
He recently directed, produced & edited The Man Card: White Male Identity Politics From Nixon to Trump (2020, Media Education Foundation) and directed, produced & edited You Throw Like A Girl: The Blindspot of Masculinity (2020, MEF).
He was named to the "Filmmaker of Tomorrow" program at the Telluride Film Festival for his short film Relieve (1999). His other films include End of Era (Underground Zero, 2003), and The Last Stand (Best Feature, Backseat Film Festival, 2008). Choreographer Paul Taylor has called his films "superb - like poems made visible." He has an MFA from Boston University in Film Production.
Peter Hutchison
Director/ Producer
Peter is an award-winning filmmaker, NY Times Bestselling author, educator & activist.
He directed & produced Requiem for the American Dream: Noam Chomsky and the Principles of Concentration of Wealth and Power (Netflix). A NY Times Critics Pick and #1 selling doc on iTunes, the book version of the film was a NY Times Bestseller (Seven Stories Press).
He most recent film, the critically-acclaimed Healing From Hate: Battle for the Soul of a Nation (Journeyman Pictures/ Media Education Foundation), described as “a raw masterpiece”, is now in wide release. The film examines the root causes of hate group activity through the bold work of former Skinheads & neo-Nazis, now engaged in de-radicalizing violent extremists, and transforming attitudes of intolerance.
His longstanding commitment to issues around male identity has resulted in the films You Throw Like A Girl: The Blind Spot of Masculinity (MEF), Angry White Men: Masculinity in the Age of Trump (Grasshopper), and newly released, The Man Card: White Male Identity Politics from Nixon to Trump (MEF).
His numerous documentary features include What Would Jesus Buy? (Sundance Channel Feature), SPLIT: A Divided America (IFC Choice Indie), it’s follow-up SPLIT: A Deeper Divide (The Documentary Channel), and Awake Zion (Film Buff).
David Kuhn
Producer
David has extensive experience in documentary film production, television, journalism, photography and law. He is currently producing Democracy on the battle to save the American Republic, and California Story on the impact of gang documentation in California. He produced Life After Hate: Battle for the Soul of a Nation which examines the root causes and conditions that foster racism and xenophobia among the radicalized Alt Right (2020), and Give or Take a narrative feature on one man’s journey to accept his father and change his life (2019). Other films include the acclaimed feature doc The King (2018) on the life of Elvis Presley as a metaphor for the rise and fall of the American empire, and a short film in Cuba The Cyclist (Una Cyclista) for “The New Yorker Presents...” series on Amazon (2016).
David has served as legal counsel and/or producer for documentaries such as: Denial (2016), (T)error (2015), Requiem for the American Dream (2015), The House I Live In (2012), Beyond the Boardroom (2006), and Capturing the Friedmans (2003). In prior work, he was a public defender litigating in Manhattan criminal courts for nearly a decade. His films have appeared at Cannes Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival and many others. He was nominated for two Emmy Awards in 2020, and a Grammy Award in 2019. He is a voting member of the Recording Academy. He lives in Brooklyn with his 8 year old son Bo.