10 Emmy Nominations | 4 Emmy Wins | 1 ACE Eddie Win

Flicker Filmworks is an award winning production company specializing in unscripted content for film, television and digital platforms. Projects have included the Emmy nominated series Hidden Heroes for CBS, Nomad with Carlton McCoy for CNN, Post Production on Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown on CNN, and Mind of a Chef on PBS. In conjunction with brand partners, Flicker Filmworks has produced content for Chobani, Disney+, GE Vernova, The Rockefeller Foundation and Monogram.

Flicker Post, a division of Flicker Filmworks, specializes in hybrid remote and on-prem post production workflow hosting. An end-to-end solution, Flicker Post allows you to bring your own creative team while utilizing our state of the art, secure storage and infrastructure to host all your media. Best in class editorial support and post supervision ensure your project has bespoke, individual attention from camera card to final master.

Laura deNey is an Emmy award-winning producer and director, who tells hidden stories from around the world, with a focus on women, the environment and social justice. Holding a BA from Stanford University in Anthropology and Feminist Studies, Laura has produced and edited dozens of hours of documentary programming including documentary series for National Geographic and CNN, award-winning feminist documentaries for PBS, Marcus Samuelson’s Emmy-award winning short series “My Mark,” environmental justice films for the DEC, a variety of Anthony Bourdain’s television series and his feature film “WASTED! The Story of Food Waste," which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. Most recently, Laura directed two independent films: “The Nature of Nature” on biodiversity (soon to be released), and “Reborn to Dance,” a story of a woman beating cancer twice to become a professional ballroom dancer, which premiered at the American Documentary and Animation Film Festival. Laura is co-owner of Flicker Filmworks, and executive produced two seasons of the Emmy Award-nominated family series “Hidden Heroes,” the series “Going From Broke” executive produced by Ashton Kutcher, a feature film for the band “Bright Eyes,” and a concert of the movie “Clouds” on Disney+. As founder and co-owner of Flicker Filmworks, Laura heads up development and is responsible for creative ideation, casting, and finding iconic stories that are in line with our mission of social change and justice.

Mustafa Bhagat (ACE) is an Emmy award-winning producer, editor and verité cinematographer. He is best known for his work with Anthony Bourdain as co-producer and editor for all his documentary projects for 13 years. The “Senegal” episode of Parts Unknown garnered Mustafa an ACE editing award in 2017 and the “Kenya” episode with W. Kamau Bell won an Emmy for writing in 2019. Mustafa is a highly in demand and technical editor, creating films and commercials for premium clients such as Chobani, Breville, Tumi, Nissan, (RED), AirBnb, Disney+. Mustafa’s passion for culture, travel, food and music permeates all his work. For the CNN series NOMAD (2022), Mustafa was brought on to develop, produce and co-direct the first episode, and stay on as lead editor through post production. A technologist at heart, Mustafa has harnessed the latest technology to develop and implement remote workflows for production and post production since 2008. Mustafa is co-owner of Flicker Filmworks, and executive produced Ashton Kutcher’s documentary series “Going From Broke”, “Hidden Heroes” for Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, a documentary concert film for the band Bright Eyes, and the virtual concert of the movie “Clouds” on Disney+.

Mustafa runs Flicker Filmworks with his partner, Laura deNey in the Hudson Valley of New York. When not making films he can be found strumming sweet melodies on his sitar.

Laura deNey • Co-Founder / Executive Producer • 917.749.2047• laura@flickerfilmworks.com
Mustafa Bhagat • Co-Founder / Executive Producer • 917.608.6955 • mustafa@flickerfilmworks.com
www.flickerfilmworks.com

An amazing day of filming a PSA on reproductive rights. Thank you to the amazing women who came out and shared their stories, Hudsy for hosting us, our incredibly talented crew Jess, Taylor, Kashka and Chris from North Guild and even our daughter Roxy, who got an immediate promotion from PA to sound person! Can’t wait to share the PSA soon!

We won a Telly! Actually 4! Out of 13,000 entries, Island Tower won one Gold and 3 Silver awards in the categories of Branded Content Documentary: Short Form, Editing, Use of Color and Hotels snd Hospitality for the win! 🏆 we are excited to share the trailer and film when it gets released on Disney+ soon. Congrats to everyone at Yellow Shoes, Helm Content, director Abigail Fuller, and the whole editing team at Flicker Filmworks - Emily Clifton, Sapna Shah, Laura, Mustafa, Eric, Tim, graphics by Naoko Saito, Color by Mike Nuget, audio mix by String and Can. Congratulations, everyone, such a joy to work with you all!

We are excited that a feature doc we helped edit is now out on PBS! GENERATION WARRIOR, produced by the fantastic TV Gals can now be seen on PBS from anywhere in the country - if you have PBS passport, please check it out! You download the PBS app onto your TV, then search for "My station." using a Wyoming zip code, (I used 82514 which is Fort Washakie, but any Wyoming zip code will work)). Then click on Wyoming PBS and you can find Generation Warrior there under "Wyoming PBS Shows."

Amazing visit to the Margaret Mead Film Festival at the Natural History Museum this weekend. The film “Black Zombie” enlightened us to the fact that the whole concept of Zombies is racist and xenophobic in nature - based on misinterpretation and Hollywood’s distortion of Haiti’s beautiful Vodu religion, and on keeping “others” out, as in today’s refugee crises. “Daughters of the Forest” was a an absurdly beautiful and even psychadelic film about indigenous mushroom forager women becoming mycologists - the film eloquently gave the mushrooms a voice in a way we are attempting to do in our own plant documentaries at the moment - wonderfully executed. Brava to the directors of both films, I can’t recommend them highly enough!

We had so much fun going to see FUCKTOYS at the Catskill community theater - so happy to see that indie film, feminist John Waters-style, is alive and well. Great Q and A with the director/star Annapurna Sriram after - turning the feminist gaze on its head in a wild campy but meaningful sexy romp. Highly recommend you check it out!

Vegas, baby, Vegas! Mustafa is at the NAB video conference to keep Flicker up to date on the latest and greatest in post production and video tech. Be sure to say hi if you are there!

I wanted to share some of shots I filmed on my recent trip to Colombia. This was such a meaningful trip - the beauty of the people, the nature, the friends I made, and the inspirational people I worked with. I am filled with gratitude! I have long wanted to work on my filming skills, and deciding to make a film on plants and wise women has been exactly the inspiration I needed to do so. I lot to learn, and I am grateful to my local filming heroes Fred McCragg, Samantha Schutz and Chris Rahm (who all worked on the Nature of Nature), and for the support of Mustafa who really does it all! I am looking forward to sharing the stories of these wise women, and their conversations with the plants, animals and the earth. I can’t wait to introduce you to Madre the most loving woman I have ever met, (who you will see a brief shot of at the end of this clip), Celine for bringing me into her magical world, and Madre’s incredible family who I am happy now to call my own Colombian family. Gracias todos! #colombia #colombiana #hummingbirds #hummingbirdsofinstagram #SensitivePlant #sensitiveplant #elpeñol #elpeñolantioquia #calalily #garden

Friends of Guirgho, located in the Hudson Valley, is amazing organization of that directly provides educational, housing, water and electricity to a small village in Burkina Faso. When we met Pascal and Victor, who grew up in New Paltz but whose families are from this small village of Guirgho, a light went on and we knew we wanted to support their efforts with a video. Please check it out and support the project at friendsofguirgho.org! Special thanks: Christina and Mike Benevento at Full Circle in Gardiner for donating their beautiful space for the interview! Julian Eddy, editor Celine Sahulka, translator All the amazing volunteers and founders of FoG - it was incredible working with you all! "Friends of Guirgho believes in the potential of every child. We provide access to technology and other resources to students in rural Burkina Faso to help them further their studies, explore their interests, and reach their full potential. We believe that by providing these tools and guidance, we can empower these students to make a positive impact on their communities and the world." For a fuller viewing experience, head to friendsofguirgho.org or our Flicker Filmworks youtube channel. https://youtu.be/DzhRtg0XUWs

10 Emmy Nominations | 4 Emmy Wins | 1 ACE Eddie Win

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