THE Team
Avi Belkin | Director
AVI BELKIN is an award-winning director working across fiction and non-fiction. His feature documentary film Mike Wallace Is Here, chronicling the fearsome 60 Minutes reporter’s impact on broadcast journalism, premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival, won an IDA award and was released theatrically by Magnolia Pictures and acquired by HULU. He directed AMC’s six-part true-crime series No One Saw a Thing. The series was produced in partnership with Blumhouse and Delirio Films. His documentary feature film Winding—a portrait of the most infamous river in the Middle East—was the big winner at the Haifa International Film Festival. He recently worked on a 4-part documentary series for HBO that is set to air next year and was named one of the Top 10 Documentary Filmmakers to Watch by Variety magazine
Bad Robot | Production Company
Bad Robot was formed by filmmaker J.J. Abrams in 2001. The company has produced television series such as ALIAS, LOST, FRINGE, PERSON OF INTEREST and WESTWORLD as well as the upcoming CASTLE ROCK (Hulu), LOVECRAFT COUNTRY (HBO) and DEMIMONDE (HBO), feature films such as SUPER 8, STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS, the STAR TREK, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE and CLOVERFIELD franchises and interactive content including the mobile app ACTION MOVIE FX. Bad Robot's first foray into publishing, S., a novel conceived by Abrams and written by Doug Dorst, was a New York Times Best Seller.
Bad Robot is based in Santa Monica and can be followed at twitter.com/bad_robot and instagram.com/bad_robot.
Glen Zipper | Executive Producer
Glen Zipper is the founder and president of Zipper Bros Films and formerly an Assistant Prosecutor in Hudson County, New Jersey.
In addition to producing the Academy Award® winning documentary UNDEFEATED, Glen Executive Produced CHALLENGER: THE FINAL FLIGHT and Showtime’s UFO in collaboration with Bad Robot Productions, created and Executive Produced the hit Netflix Original documentary series DOGS and Executive Produced the acclaimed Cinemax comedy/documentary series TALES FROM THE TOUR BUS directed by Mike Judge (Silicon Valley, Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill, Idiocracy).
Glen has also produced such documentary features as ZAPPA, SHOWBIZ KIDS and THE PANAMA PAPERS directed by Alex Winter (Deep Web), HBO’s ELVIS PRESLEY: THE SEARCHER and YouTube’s THE GIFT: THE JOURNEY OF JOHNNY CASH directed by Thom Zimny (Bruce Springsteen On Broadway), BETTING ON ZERO directed by Ted Braun (Darfur Now), THE BILL MURRAY STORIES directed by Tommy Avallone, HBO’s Emmy Award® winning WHAT’S MY NAME: MUHAMMAD ALI directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, The Equalizer) and executive produced by LeBron James and Maverick Carter, TREAD from director Paul Solet (Grace) and executive producer Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Swingers, Edge of Tomorrow), the Grammy Award®-winning FOO FIGHTERS: BACK AND FORTH directed by James Moll, and the Emmy Award®-winning GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD directed by Martin Scorsese.
Sean Stuart | Executive Producer
Sean is the founder and president of Sutter Road Picture Company, where he produced the Emmy and PGA award winning documentary What’s My Name | Muhammad Ali directed by Antoine Fuqua. Sean recently executive produced the docuseries UFO for Showtime with EP J.J. Abrams, the six-part docuseries Cat People for Netflix, and Four Seasons Total Documentary with MSNBC. Two of his projects were recently nominated for 2021 Emmy Awards, including Netflix’s original documentary series Challenger: The Final Flight, and the feature length film With Drawn Arms (Tribeca 2020). In the fall of 2020, Sean worked closely with Will Smith to produce his on-camera material for the six-part Netflix documentary series Amend: The Fight For America. Sean is also a founding partner at Company Name with actor and director Colin Hanks, where he produced the critically acclaimed All Things Must Pass, the multiple Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards nominated Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis, and the Emmy nominated documentary short film The Anti-Mascot. Some of his other previous credits include The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash, Let There Be Drums, Tread, and Tales From The Tour Bus directed by Mike Judge.
Kevin Lincoln | Writer
Kevin Lincoln is a producer and writer. He produced FOUR SEASONS TOTAL DOCUMENTARY, an inside look at the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference that was released by MSNBC Films. He also is co-executive producer of UFO, a four-episode documentary series for Showtime from J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot; CAT PEOPLE, a six-episode documentary series for Netflix; and THE BOND, a four-episode documentary series for Discovery+ from Robert Downey, Jr. and Susan Downey's Team Downey. Previously, he wrote for the nightly television show FOX SPORTS LIVE and worked as a senior editor at New York magazine, and he has written for publications including the New York Times Magazine, GQ, The Wall Street Journal, and Rolling Stone.