We get called activists sometimes. Mostly, it’s at the exact moment we’re revealing hard truths about who we all are as people. What we actually are is film-makers, with a lust for the truth.
HamiltonSeen created three feature length films last year, received three Hamilton Independent Media award noms, and won ‘Best Journalist: Social Justice and Human Rights’. We have delved into art, politics, more politics, and then more politics…with a dash of music and journalism. The films we make strive to show the beauty of the human spirit when confronted with adversity.
Director Cody Lanktree is most inspired by dialogue created by the connection between time, beauty, and our personal truths. In the seven years since HamiltonSeen’s inception, Cody has guided the company from small commercial production to whiteboxing partnerships with major marketing firms, and finally to the creation of documentaries focused on community and social issues. His vision is one that will not stop at less than fundamentally changing and challenging perspectives and the world.
Producer Zena Hagerty has a long history of community engagement and involvement in the arts scenes of Hamilton and San Francisco and seeks to further strengthen the human spirit with her work. Zena has broad experience in media, including recording albums, performing her own music, radio broadcasting, graphic design, and many others. As director of Sublimatus as a band, an art gallery, and an entity that inspires the creative spirit within all, Zena honed a skillset that includes the ability to drive and complete large projects with expansive intentions.
Assistant Director Jessica Sovie provides direction, insight, camera operation, and editing skills that are creating a platform for the voice of the public. She is a purebred eccentric, supporter of music and of the arts, and is a champion of the underdog and underrepresented through the use of her skillset.
Executive producer Autumn Getty has been involved in the Hamilton arts scene for twenty years. As an accomplished poet, she brings her knowledge of the written word and experience of various communities to her work. She has worked in many industrial occupations, making her a good fit for several of our projects. Her literary work has won her national acclaim and a variety of literary awards. Her primary interest is in the promotion of viable communities and the inclusion of the disenfranchised.