Filmmakers

Damon Cook - Producer / Director

Damon Cook is a documentary filmmaker based out of Brooklyn, New York. He began his career in 2001 as co-Producer of the now cult-classic, Okie Noodling, an award-winning documentary film that captures the offbeat clandestine sport of barehanded fishing in Oklahoma that continues to have encore PBS broadcasts. He was the Associate Producer of the critically acclaimed 2005 documentary The Fearless Freaks, a film chronicling the 25-year career of the band the Flaming Lips that screened theatrically worldwide and was subsequently broadcast on the Sundance Channel. Most recently, he was the Associate Producer of Summercamp!, a film following the day-to-day drama of 90 kids let loose in the woods at Swift Nature Camp in northern Wisconsin that premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and later aired on the Sundance Channel. He currently works freelance in all aspects of film and television production and has amassed nearly 40 broadcast credits on non-fiction/reality series or specials.

Dan Pringle - Producer / Editor

Dan Pringle studied Film and Video Production at the University of Oklahoma and began his career at the PBS affiliate station, OETA, in Oklahoma City. In 2002, he co-founded the multi-media production company Sunflower Press where he handled all aspects of production on various documentaries, shorts, music videos, industrials and commercials. He was the editor of 2003's Making Arrangements, a comedic feature film focusing on the frenetic world of a high-end flower shop. Most recently, he was the Assistant Editor of Christmas on Mars, a science fiction feature film from the Oklahoma psychedelic alternative rock band the Flaming Lips. In 2004, he relocated to Los Angeles where he now works in film and television production and post-production as a freelance sound mixer and editor.

Amy Cargill - Associate Producer

Amy Cargill graduated from The University of Oklahoma and is a multimedia/film editor in Chicago, Illinois. Her credits include Nice Bombs, distributed by Seventh Art Releasing and Garbage: The Revolution, which premiered at Hot Docs!, both of which are currently airing on the Sundance Channel. She was recently part of the editorial team for The Calling, a four-part documentary series about religion in the U.S. to be broadcast in 2009 on PBS. Amy is currently the senior editor for Tony and Janina's American Wedding, Ruth Leitman's documentary film about immigration, executive produced by Kartemquin Films. Amy serves on the Board of Directors for IFP Chicago, works with the Chicago History Museum as a digital archivist maintaining the Studs Terkel audio archives, and runs a multimedia company under the name Normal Pictures Inc.