Undamming Klamath

ShaneAnderson

Shane Anderson is an Emmy-nominated documentary director and producer focusing on natural history, environmental justice, river restoration, and salmon recovery in the American West. Since 2012, he has produced and directed seven feature documentaries including 'A Rivers Last Chance', 'Chehalis: A Watershed Moment,' 'The Lost Salmon,' and 'Covenant Of The Salmon People.' In addition, he has produced many short films including 'Guardians of the River,' which received the EarthX Impact Award, and 'Bring the Salmon Home,' which was a Jackson Media Award finalist Shane’s films have been distributed by PBS, Amazon, Patagonia, Outside Magazine, and Collective Eye He partners with conservation organizations to utilize his films in varied impact campaigns that have influenced policies to protect rivers, forests, and wild salmon Shane specializes in underwater cinematography and drone operation. He filmed the removal of the Nooksack Dam including a four-month timelapse shot for BBC’s Planet Earth series, and has provided footage to BBC's Our Changing Planet and the Netflix series Earthscape. He brings a background in fisheries biology, and previously to working in documentary film was a professional skier and a Hollywood stuntman.

MayaCraig

Maya is a San Francisco-based Documentary Filmmaker and freelance Director of Photography. She has been a National Geographic Explorer since 2019 looking at the global climate and geopolitical impacts of a warming Arctic As Director of Photography for Swiftwater, Maya has filmed for a number of documentaries focused on the restoration of Western landscapes including 'Guardians of the River' (EarthXFilm Impact Award 2021), 'Bring the Salmon Home' (Jackson Media Awards nominee 2022), and 'The Lost Salmon' (Emmy nominee NW 2023). She is also a DP and producer on feature documentary Laikipia, supported by Doc Society, Threshold Foundation, Sundance, and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Her first documentary Water Town, about a water privatization conflict in Northern California, was broadcast nationally on PBS and helped lead to the City of Weed, CA securing its water rights after a five-year legal battle. She has directed and shot for brands like Patagonia, Google, Freethink, LA Times, CNN’s Courageous Studios, and others. Maya is a fellow at the Royal Geographical Society and holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Science from Colorado College and a Master’s in Documentary Film from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism