Meet The Filmmakers
ELISE MCCAVE | Producer
Elise McCave has been working with documentary filmmakers since 2008. As Kickstarter's Senior Director of Film since 2016, she's worked with film organizations and filmmakers worldwide, providing tailored support and mentorship on fundraising and audience-building for projects in development and production. From 2008-2016 she was Deputy Director of Doc Society (formerly BRITDOC) in London and then in New York, primarily overseeing the Good Pitch program.
EMILY KAYE ALLEN | Director,
Cinematographer, Editor
Emily Allen is a photographer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work explores the connection of characters and story to environment and place. Cisco Kid is her debut feature film.
SHANNON FITZPATRICK | Producer
Shannon Fitzpatrick is a producer and editor working in fiction and documentary films. She completed a Master's in Media Studies at The New School, where she studied cinematic representations of trauma and healing. In addition to Cisco Kid, she is currently producing Softly in all directions, a feature-length documentary that weaves together queer histories of political resistance, imagination, and desire in the shadow of Romania’s communist past, and editing Goldilocks, a 16mm mixed-media narrative short about imagination, wilderness, and growing up in the pre-internet era.