The Team

Jeremy Jones — Executive Producer

As an accomplished filmmaker, entrepreneur, environmentalist and snowboarding pioneer, Jeremy Jones is widely regarded as one of the most legendary big mountain riders and explorers of all time. Named a 2013 National Geographic “Adventurer of the Year” and eleven times voted “Best Big Mountain Rider of the Year” by Snowboarder Magazine, Jeremy has starred in over fifty snowboard movies worldwide, including his highly acclaimed, foot-powered snowboarding trilogy Deeper, Further and Higher. He is the founder and CEO of award-winning Jones Snowboards, dedicated to the development of the highest quality backcountry snowboards and accessories.

In 2007 Jeremy founded Protect Our Winters, a global cause uniting the winter sports community against climate change and was recognized in 2013 as a Champion of Change by President Barack Obama. Jeremy has appeared frequently in worldwide media including 60 Minutes Sports, ABC’s Nightline News, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Outside Magazine and TV, Men’s Journal, Esquire, CNN, MTV, ESPN, Fox News, NBC and National Geographic.

Josh ‘Bones’ Murphy — Director, Executive Producer

Josh is a director and producer of film, commercials and branded entertainment. He was co-producer and second unit director of the feature film adaptation of David James Dunkin’s classic novel THE RIVER WHY that won the Gerald Hirschfeld, ASC Best Cinematography at the 2010 Ashland Independent Film Festival. He produced the elevated genre film HERE ALONE, which won Best Narrative Feature at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival and was awarded the Empire State Filmmakers Award. He co-produced the 2018 multi-award winning, inspirational feature documentary THE PUSH about the first spinal cord injured athlete to push himself to the South Pole and was a contributor to Alex Gibney’s film THE INVENTOR: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley about Elizabeth Holmes and the failure of biotech giant Theranos. Most recently he directed, produced, and co-wrote the feature documentary film ARTIFISHAL that was commissioned by Patagonia founder and owner Yvon Chouinard, and premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival where it was a finalist for the Tribeca X Prize. It recently won the San Francisco Green Film Festival, the American Conservation Film Festival, the Banff Film Festival, the InScience Film Festival in the Netherlands, the International Outdoor Documentary Festival of China, the Special Jury Award from the Jackson Wild Film Festival, the Jury Award at the Wild and Scenic Film Festival and the Golden Gate Award at the International Oceans Film Festival. It had over 2000 local screenings worldwide before being released on Amazon Prime, iTunes, and YouTube where it earned over 2 million views in the first month.

He is currently in development on a variety of narrative and documentary films including a feature doc on plastics that he is directing with Oscar winner Louie Psihoyos who made THE COVE, RACING EXTINCTION, and recently the most viewed documentary ever on Netflix, THE GAME CHANGERS.

Prior to film Josh was trained as a natural resource scientist and fisheries biologist. His childhood idol was Jacques Cousteau and through him he discovered a love for film and the environment.

Adrienne Hall — Producer

Adrienne is an Emmy-nominated, Webby and Clio Award-winning filmmaker and co-founder of Sound Off Films, with wide-ranging experience in documentary storytelling, branded content and traditional commercial production. With a knack for problem-solving on projects small and huge, she brings a distinctive approach to her producing and directing work, including the documentary films Racing Extinction (Emmy and Oscar-nominee), SheChange and The Discarded: A Tale of Two Rios; commercial content for elite clients such as The North Face, Facebook, and Google; and nonprofits including Oceana, Plastic Pollution Coalition and Emerson Collective.

Kevin McNeely — Executive Producer

Rosemary McNeely — Executive Producer

Mario Molina — Executive Producer

Steve Jones — Executive Producer

Todd Jones — Executive Producer

Brett Hills — Executive Producer

Jon Klaczkiewicz — Associate Producer

Collin Kriner — Editor

Collin is an editor whose work spans commercials, narrative films and documentaries.

He grew up in Montana, earned a BFA in film and television from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and began editing for ad agencies Goodby Silverstein & Partners and Pereira & O'Dell. In 2015, he and director Josh Murphy founded the production company Liars & Thieves. He has cut commercials for brands like Google, Coca-Cola, Amazon, and Intel, with notable directors such as Robert Stromberg, Theodore Melfi and Benji Weinstein. Films include the award-winning narrative feature JINN (SXSW '18) and the feature documentary ARTIFISHAL (Tribeca '19) which was commissioned by Patagonia. He recently finished the horror feature DREAMKATCHER which will be released by Lionsgate in 2020. He is based in New York.

William Ryan Fritch — Composer

An award winning composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer living in Petaluma, Califormia. Since 2008, he has scored and/or contributed original music to over a hundred documentary and narrative films, many of which that have been celebrated by festivals and organizations such as the Emmy nominated and Independent Spirit Award winning "The Waiting Room" and the 2016 Academy Award, Peabody and Emmy nominated documentary "4.1 Miles." His compositions and scores have been lauded as “ Achingly Beautiful and evocative” (The Hollywood Reporter ) and “Piquant, lively and Imaginative” (Variety) and have made multiple music journalist’s year end lists for favorite soundtracks. In 2019, A Closer Listen said, “Fritch is easily the best film composer who hasn’t yet landed a major motion picture; it’s only a matter of time.”

As a recording artist and songwriter he has released more than 30 albums of his unique amalgam of folk, contemporary classical, and experimental music both under his own name and under the moniker Vieo Abiungo through the respected independent record label Lost Tribe Sound. As Pop Matters said of one of his recent albums, “ it’s beauty will leave you fustigated, with raw emotion resonating from every sonic vibration in his expansive timbral arsenal….”

In addition to his recordings and commissioned film work, he has created music for dance companies ( including MacArthur Grant winning Exit12), dozens of national ad campaigns and branded content films/videos, (including multiple Webby, D& AD, Music and Sound Award, Vimeo and Tribeca X award winning works for Square, Google and Dropbox.) and numerous student films ( Six of which that’ve gone on to win the Student Academy Award for documentary.

Joel K. Bourne Jr. — Writer

For more than two decades Joel Bourne has explored the primal relationship between humans and nature, focusing on energy, the environment and climate change. An award-winning journalist and former Senior Editor for the Environment, Bourne has reported on some of the most critical issues facing the nation and the planet, from the industrialization of the thawing Arctic, to the global food crisis, to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. He has broken major stories in the national media. His story on the growing hurricane threat to New Orleans appeared months before Hurricane Katrina devastated the city. He is the sole reporter to discover that the only oil well ever drilled in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was a dry hole, one of the most tightly guarded secrets in the industry. Most recently he broke the news on the discovery of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to reach U.S. shores.

With a degree in agronomy, Bourne's other lifelong passion is the quest for sustainable ways to feed the planet. His article on the global food crisis of 2008 that pushed millions toward starvation led to a multi-part series in National Geographic on the Future of Food. He has covered the impact of biofuels, corporate land grabs in Africa, and new low-impact forms of aquaculture. His first book, The End of Plenty: the Race to Feed a Crowded World (W.W. Norton, 2015), was both dire warning and inspirational guide to the researchers, farmers, and entrepreneurs who are igniting a "greener" revolution. Lester Brown, founder of Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute, called it "one of the most informative, engaging books on the world food prospect I have ever read."

A gifted storyteller who deftly mixes hard news with inspiring stories about solutions to the pressing environmental problems we face, Bourne is a sought-after public speaker, moderator, and panelist at national and international forums. He was a featured "Big Thinker" in Season 2 of MARS on the National Geographic Channel, and has appeared on numerous news programs and documentaries, including National Geographic Explorer, CNN, NPR's Diane Rhem show, and Fresh Air with Terry Gross, among many others. He has been a featured or keynote speaker at several national and international corporate conferences, as well as Google (x), ag-tech start-ups, and environmental groups. He has moderated discussions at London's Royal Society, the National Press Club, the Aspen Environmental Forum, and National Geographic Live!

He lives with his wife and three children in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Gina Papabeis — Impact Producer

Specializing in socially conscious, world-changing projects, Gina has over a decade of experience in documentary production and impact campaign execution with the high-profile documentary films The Game Changers (Executive Producer, James Cameron), Racing Extinction (Emmy and Oscar-nominee) and The Cove (Academy Award-winner). Her work has reached hundreds of millions of people, creating tangible systemic and individual behavior change in the issues of dolphin captivity, the wildlife trade, climate and the perception of plant-based eating. Her impact experience influences each phase of the projects she produces, through creative development, production, post, distribution, audience engagement, and campaign execution.

In Association With Manitou Fund

About Protect Our Winters

Protect Our Winters is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that helps passionate outdoor people protect the places and lifestyles they love from climate change. Founded in 2007 by professional snowboarder Jeremy Jones, POW is a community of athletes, scientists, creatives and business leaders advancing non-partisan policies that protect our world today and for future generations.

Teton Gravity Research — Producer

Teton Gravity Research is regarded as one of the premier outdoor action, adventure, and exploration brands in the world. Known for original, custom and branded content. TGR’s world-class storytelling has captivated audiences for more than 23 years. With 40+ award-winning films, numerous television series, and national commercial spots TGR delivers a global, multi-channel footprint. Teton Gravity Research is one of the fastest-growing outdoor media brands with a thriving millennial audience, award-winning multimedia film projects, a rapidly growing experiential platform and unprecedented viral content. TGR is a proud member of the Surfrider Foundation, 1% For The Planet, BICEP, IMBA, and Protect Our Winters.

Liars & Thieves — Production Partner

Liars & Thieves is a full-service production company founded by director/producer Josh Murphy and Editor Collin Kriner and powered by creatives and producers who are passionate about stories, adventure, and people. Liars & Thieves produced the recent documentaries Artifishal, commissioned by Patagonia Founder (Tribeca ‘19), and Purple Mountains, a film about legendary snowboarder, climate activist and founder of Protect Our Winters (POW) Jeremy Jones. They are in development on a feature documentary on the global plastics epidemic with the Oceanic Preservation Society and director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove, Racing Extinction, The Game Changers).

Sound Off Films — Impact Campaign Management

Sound Off Films is a female-owned, mission-driven, full-service production company specializing in blue-chip documentary, natural history and branded content. Founded in 2014 by Adrienne Hall and Annie Costner after working together on the Emmy and Oscar-nominated documentary Racing Extinction, their work amplifies the rallying cry for the most pressing social issues of our time. Sound Off Films has produced socially driven branded projects for elite clients including Facebook, DJI, and Red Bull, and collaborated with world-class organizations such as UNESCO, Rainforest Action Network, and Plastic Pollution Coalition. Their conventional documentary work includes the upcoming film SheChange, which follows the best female surfers in the world as they fight for gender equality in one of the most dangerous sports on earth, the ESPN 30 for 30 films Bump and Spike and The Pittsburgh Drug Trials, Katy Perry’s Witness Tour documentary, and The Discarded: A Tale of Two Rios, released by Participant Media.