The Team

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The COOL Cooperative offers film industry workforce development skills to "at-promise" youth in the New Orleans area. From 7th -12th grade, we offer our students the chance to find their voice, tell their stories, and meeting working filmmakers -- all at no cost. 

 Kirby's life changed irrevocably when he was 14 and first saw Kubrick's masterpiece "Dr. Strangelove." He knew then that he was a director; his life was indelibly that of a filmmaker. Any list of his favorite directors would likely go well beyond reason, but it would invariably include Kubrick, Tarkovsky, Paradjanov, RW Fassbinder, David Lean, Danny Boyle, PT Anderson, Bergman, Iñárritu, Wong Kar Wai, Park Chan-Wook, Visconti, Danny Boyle, and, of course, Kieślowski. This is his first feature.

Felicia Stallard is the founder of The COOL Cooperative, a non-profit dedicated to providing the youth of New Orleans with film industry workforce development. This is her second feature as a producer and her first as a writer.

  John Swider has produced numerous films starring actors such as John Goodman, Eric Roberts, and Tom Seizemore. He's a natural producer, adept at deal-making, forging compromises, moving, and shaking.

  Murray Roth is a Louisiana-based entertainment attorney and executive  producer. He is one of the producers  of the feature-length film "Lost Bayou," which recently premiered at  the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. He also frequently works with the  Lifetime Network and the SciFi Channel on productions filmed in  Louisiana.