Amanda Feldon (Executive Producer)

With more than 20 years of experience in broadcasting, Amanda has produced and directed a very broad range of programming all over the world, including observational documentaries, drama-documentaries, current-affairs, and live magazine shows for clients including the BBC, National Geographic and Discovery Channel.  The documentaries she works on covers everything from politics and pandas in China to Moscow’s homeless, Satanists, neo-Nazis, drug addicts and prostitutes living and meeting underground in tunnels and basements.

Patrick Winn (Associate Producer)

Patrick Winn is a journalist and documentary producer based in Southeast Asia. Much of his work focuses on guerrilla conflict, the narcotics trade and black markets. Winn has received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award (also known as the “poor man’s Pulitzer”), a National Press Club broadcast award and a Human Rights Press Award in the “television and film” category.

His writing and short documentaries have been featured on NBC News, The Atlantic, GlobalPost, NPR and other outlets. Winn also served as field coordinator for the debut episode of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown. Filmed in Myanmar, it won multiple Emmys.

Winn is currently Public Radio International’s Asia correspondent, primarily appearing on PRI’s The World. The program, co-produced by the BBC, is broadcast on NPR affiliate stations across America and is heard by more than 2.5 million listeners each week.

Mark Oltmanns (Director of Photography)

Mark grew up in Chicago but attended university in Thailand where he lived for five years. He is fluent in Thai and French. He was a DOP on the new critically acclaimed Netflix documentary series, “Flint Town.” He has also filmed documentaries for MSNBC on sex trafficking in the U.S. and filmed a VICE short doc on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar. His passion lies in observational documentaries.

Nina Ijäs (Editor/Script)

Nina lives in Helsinki and Berlin and specializes in documentary and commercial projects. She has worked on several projects with Finnish Public broadcaster YLE and was the principal editor on a Korean feature-length documentary titled, “Family in the Bubble”. The film won the grand prize at the 14th EBS International Documentary Festival. A short film that she edited, “Heart of the Land, Toivola”, screened at HotDocs and Docpoint among several other prominent festivals. It won the “Best Documentary Short” award at the U.K. Film Festival as well as “Best Nordic Short Film” at Nordisk Panorama.

Akritchalerm Kalayanamit (Sound Designer)

Akritchalern or “Rith” has been the sound designer for many critically acclaimed films by Thai directors including Palme d'Or-winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. His work has been seen in several international film festivals including Cannes and the New York Film Festival. He brings almost twenty years of experience on more than forty films to Hope Frozen.