Our Team
We are a team of filmmakers, impact and distribution strategists, activists and writers located in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, with an expertise in impact producing, community engagement, educational distribution, film production and somatic coaching.
Regan Brashear
Impact Producer, Director, Founder & Somatics Coach
Originally from Virginia, Regan (they/she) has been working on racial, disability, LGBT+, and economic justice issues for over 25 years now through documentary film, impact campaigns, union organizing, producing community forums, directing a teen theater troupe, and grassroots activism. Based between Oakland and Santa Cruz, CA, for the past twenty four years, Regan Brashear is the founder of Making Change Media, a social issue documentary production, impact strategy & distribution company.
Regan is the producer/director/editor of the award-winning documentary on technology, bioethics and disability, FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement, which aired on PBS stations around the country from 2015 through 2018 via American Public Television, also screening in over 30 festivals in 16 countries, and broadcast on television and airlines in several other countries. FIXED has been a top seller with the educational distributor New Day Films since its release in 2013 and is now taught widely in disability studies, sociology and science studies curriculums in high schools, colleges, universities and medical schools worldwide. Regan is an active member and former Head of Launch and Member Services of the film distribution cooperative New Day Films.
Past projects include partnership development and impact producing for Waging Change on the movement to end the subminimum wage for tipped workers; producing the #NoBodyIsDisposable Summer Film Series to raise awareness about care rationing in the times of Covid and to lift up the #NoBodyIsDisposable campaign; coordinating a multi-city tour for I Am Maris for ro*co films for National Mental Health Awareness week; developing strategy and implementing a national impact campaign for Emmy Award-winning Time for Ilhan, the origin story of rising political star Congresswoman Ilhan Omar; serving as impact producer and educational distributor for DEEJ, a Peabody Award winning, Emmy nominated film about autism, inclusion and neurodiversity, broadcast on America Reframed 2017-2020, and much more, including consulting with filmmakers on impact and distribution.
Regan is committed to racial and disability justice, collective liberation for all and the lifelong process of uprooting white supremacy. They are an alumnus of the Catalyst Project’s Anne Braden Anti-Racist Organizer Training Program for white social justice activists, and as a member of SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) - Bay Area chapter, they have helped facilitate the Study and Action program for white folks to begin digging into the history of white supremacy and finding their role in the work for collective liberation. They are also a member of GIPA (Global Impact Producers Alliance), Film Fatales, International Documentary Association, FWD-DOC, and the Disability Studies Association. Regan served as a judge for Superfest Disability Film Festival for six years, as a programming consultant for the Mountainfilm Festival in 2021, and as a co-organizer of the Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival from 2002-2005. Brashear has a BA in American Studies (Highest Honors, Phi Beta Kappa) and a MA in Social Documentation (Documentary Film) from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Over the past few years, Regan has trained in somatic coaching through several programs and is currently launching their coaching practice to support social justice organizers, filmmakers, artists and the wider community in showing up more powerfully in their work and lives. She and her partner are also in the process of trying to adopt.
Ginny Browne
Impact & Communications Strategist
Ginny has spent 15 years as a facilitator, communicator, and convener, dedicated to amplifying the voices of ordinary people, especially those most marginalized, in the decisions and institutions that affect their lives. As an impact strategist, Ginny has developed national partnerships, produced educational resources, and managed social media for documentary films including Time for Ilhan and The Unafraid. Ginny spent seven years at the Participatory Budgeting Project working with government agencies and grassroots organizations across the U.S. to launch and run democratic processes that give communities direct decision-making power over public funds. Prior to PBP, Ginny worked as a community organizer with the grassroots New York organization Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES), a researcher with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in the Bay Area, and an AmericorpsVISTA associate with Fifth Avenue Committee, a community development corporation in Brooklyn. Ginny completed her Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning at UCLA, with a focus on community development and housing. She has a background in community media and has reported news for National Public Radio and the Pacifica Network.
Lonnie Frazier
Community Engagement Coordinator
Lonnie currently serves as a Community Engagement Coordinator for Making Change Media. Recent projects include supporting the impact campaigns for Peabody Award-winning DEEJ, a film on autism and inclusion, FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement, on disability, technology and enhancement, and I Am Maris, on eating disorders and mental health. She is currently co-directing a film about the history of African Americans in dance and ways that dance has been used for creating social change in the United States.
Jamie LeJeune
Documentary Cinematographer, Colorist, & Post-Production Supervisor
Jamie has shot, cut, and graded award winning, feature length documentaries. He also works as a technical consultant & post production supervisor designing workflows and solving problems for other documentary filmmakers, and has taught classes in color grading at UC Berkeley, Cal State East Bay, and San Francisco State. Jamie’s recent credits include: The Book Makers (in post production) - Cinematographer & Colorist; Sign My Name to Freedom (in post production) - Cinematographer & Colorist; Trashed (in post production) - Cinematographer, Online Editor & Colorist; Paradise (in post production) - Technical Consultant; Container (2019) - Colorist; Shades (2018) - Colorist; Circles (2017) - Cinematographer & Technical Consultant ; A Year in Port (2016) - Cinematographer, Editor, & Colorist; Gaining Ground (2016) - Cinematographer, Online Editor & Colorist; Daze of Justice (2016) - Online Editor & Colorist; Chinese Couplets (2016) - Online Editor & Colorist; A Year in Champagne (2015) - Cinematographer, Editor, & Colorist; Arion Press (2014) - Cinematographer & Colorist; Fixed (2013) - Co-Producer, Cinematographer & Colorist; A Year in Burgundy (2012) - Cinematographer, Editor, & Colorist
Cielo Lutino
Communications, Marketing, & Copywriting
Cielo Lutino is a writer, editor, and content / social media strategist with 15+ years experience. From digital to print media, she's worked across departments including editorial, marketing, communications, and content, leading projects from start to finish. She has won writing residencies from Mustarinda and Signal Fire, and her literary nonfiction has been published in The Carolina Quarterly, Los Angeles Review, and Cold Mountain Review, among other publications. Until 2021, she led The Cutaway, an online magazine for professionals working in production across industries. You can find her portfolio here.