About Us

Beret E. Strong is also a researcher, writer, and educator.  Her films have shown on PBS stations across the U.S. and Canada, and won CINE Golden Eagles, the NAFDMA Insight Award for Excellence, Black Maria Film Festival’s Directors Citation Award, Best Documentary at the Third World Indie Film Festival, and a nomination for an IDA/ABC News Videosource Award.  Festival screenings include Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Yamagata International Film Festival, Cine las Americas Film Festival, the Boulder International Film Festival, Denver International Film Festival, and the Pan African Film Festival.  Beret cares about amplifying people’s voices, social justice and equity, the global community, and the health of our planet.

John has been directing, producing, and editing films with Beret E. Strong and Landlocked films since 1999.  He directed Streams of Gold, about gold mining in an Ecuadorean valley over a 100-year span, broadcast nationally on Free Speech TV; Penny and Red, about Penny Chenery and the thoroughbred racehorse Secretariat, broadcast on PBS stations nationwide; and has edited most of Landlocked Films’ other prize-winning documentaries.  His filmography includes work on climate science, law and equity issues, cultural competency, disability, and education.  John is also a lawyer, mediator and writer.