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Kelly Brennan grew up on Cape Cod, Massachusetts and received her Bachelor's degree in Television, Radio and Film from Syracuse University. She came to Cabin Creek Films in 2003 and has worked on several projects including Bearing Witness, I Married… and Steamfitters Local Union 638 . She worked as an Associate Producer on the documentaries Shut Up & Sing, Small Steps, High School Musical: The Music In You, The DC Sniper’s Wife and Woodstock: Now & Then. In April, 2008, Kelly traveled to New Orleans with Cabin Creek Films to document V-Day’s 10th anniversary, which was held over two days in the Louisiana Superdome. In 2007, she traveled to Cape Town, South Africa to film the Vital Voices' Leadership Summit & Initiative for Women and Girls. Kelly's main interests include travel, running and brunch.


David Cassidy has produced and/or directed documentary series and features. He recently produced the verite documentary Shut Up & Sing, directed by Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck, about the Dixie Chicks and the political controversy that exploded around them following their lead singers anti-war comment in London on the eve of the Iraq conflict (Theaters, Weinstein Co. 2006). Cassidy directed and produced the documentary feature One Small Step: The Story of the Space Chimps (2003, spacechimps.com) with Kristin Davy, about the chimpanzees used by NASA in the space race and what became of them. He began his career in documentary independently but moved on to work with Cabin Creek Films where he was part of the producing team behind the A&E Indie feature Bearing Witness (A&E, 2004) and the VH1 verite documentary series I Married… (VH1, 2003-2006). Cassidy co-produced a segment of HBO's special on Addiction (HBO, 2007) and was an Associate Producer on a four-year long project about New York City Small Schools (PBS, 2007). This past year projects on High School Musical (Disney, 2007) and the DC Snipers Wife (TruTV ,2008) will air. Cassidy continues to produce with Cabin Creek Films where he is currently working on a broad development slate. Outside the office he pretends he is going to finish his book and is releasing his first film on DVD. He lives in Red Bank, New Jersey with his wife and three cats and hopes never to outgrow his love of chasing the ice cream man.

Williams Cole: Before joining Cabin Creek Films, Williams produced Giuliani Time with director Kevin Keating. Giuliani Time premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2005, was released theatrically in Landmark Theatres in 2006 and is now available on DVD. Previously, Williams worked on a variety of network, cable, and independent documentary film productions for a variety of clients including CBS's Eye on People, A&E/The History Channel, and Cicala Filmworks, where he had two different documentary films in working-progress as part of the Independent Film Project. He graduated from Columbia University and was a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of Economics where he earned an MSc in Media and Communications while working in the BBC Documentaries Department. Williams is also a widely published freelance writer and a founding editor/writer for The Brooklyn Rail, an award-winning monthly publication about politics, art, film and literature where writes about documentary film, local and national politics and a variety of other subjects.


Lucjan Gorczynski is originally from Poland. He has been working at Cabin Creek Films for five years as an Associate Editor on many documentaries including I Married…(VH1 2003-2006), Bearing Witness (A&E 2004), Shut Up & Sing (released theatrically 2006), Steamfitters Local Union 638 (HBO 2007), Small Steps (PBS 2007) and High School Musical: The Music In You (The Disney Channel, 2008).

Maureen Dougherty studied fine art at Carnegie Mellon University and the NY Studio School. She has spent the past twenty-five years in the film industry, the last five of which at Cabin Creek Center. In 2003, her own production company, MOJO FILMS INC was incorporated. Currently two films are in production: “Failure is not an Option” is about the Abysinian Development Corporation’s creation of the first high school to be built in Harlem in over fifty years (the Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning and Social Change), which opened on the 50th Anniversary of Brown Vs the Board of Ed, and “Listening to the Mountain,” which is about the first US Outward Bound instructor Tap Tapley and the future of outdoor education in today’s virtual world.

Genevieve Faust graduated from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) with degrees in Communication Studies and Interactive Multimedia in May 2008. She interned at Cabin Creek Films before working as Assistant Editor on Woodstock: Now and Then (History Channel & VH1, 2009). Genevieve grew up in Green Lane, Pennsylvania and has four sisters. She enjoys dancing, attempting to train her Chihuahua named Dexter, and vacationing in Stone Harbor, NJ.