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Dan Egan Wins 2020-2021 Hirsch Award

05/30/2022 North American Snowsports Journalism Association Announces Hirsch Awards – 2020-21 season winners Dan Egan won the Hirsch Award for a Stand-Alone Article: Finding Our Inner Warren Miller in Mountain Outlaw magazine, Winter 2021 Read the Article here – https://www.mtoutlaw.com/ski-bum/ NASJA Judges said: “This tribute to ski film legend Warren Miller is a finely crafted story that draws the reader …

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Associate Producer: MoZiah Selassiene

MoZiah Fire Selassie is a university student studying an MSc in International Sports Management at the University Campus of Football Business. He lives in Nottingham, UK, working as a Sports Coach at Support Through Sport, an organization which aims to tackle negative influences such as knife crime and abuse that young people face through a range of sports sessions, mentoring and youth development projects. In his spare time, he plays football and represented the Bermuda National Team in both football and tennis. He also played at a semi-professional level in Nottingham and Doncaster and was on trial at professional clubs throughout England. His previous experience includes working with organisations such as the Bermuda Football Association, Salford City F.C. and Nottingham Forest F.C. in football event operations.

Line Producer – Bermuda: Dr. Dana Selassie

Dana Selassie, PhD, has extensive training as a media specialist, broadcaster, photographer and filmmaker. Dana has served as a Media & Television Lecturer at Bermuda College, the DeMontfort University, and the University of Nottingham. Dr. Selassie has presented research papers on race, media, and identity at Oxford, University of Nottingham, University of Warwick, and the University of Glasgow. Her academic and artistic works center around and promote Bermudian culture and identity. Her passion for documentary filmmaking and capturing real stories remains evident in the community-focused pieces she chooses to work on, such as in her most recent short film, ‘Broadcasting Black,’ featuring some of Bermuda’s most iconic broadcasters from the 1950s and 60s. Dana is also the founder and Executive Director of the upcoming Bermuda Black Film Weekend.

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Cultural Consultant – Bermuda: Dr. Sajni Tolaram, BA, MA, DLitt.

Dr. Sajni Tolaram, Professor, English & Film Studies, at Bermuda College, teaches courses in English Language and Literature & Film Studies. She works in Rhetorical Writing and Creative Writing, and specializes in a range of Literature courses including Medieval, Shakespeare, and literary survey in British and American Literature within socio-historical contexts. In Film Studies, she works with narrative, documentary, and experimental modes. The concentration is in essential cinema and genre studies within the formative aspects of film as an art, as a science, and as a global enterprise. She serves within a range of arts entities.

Visual Artist: Eldon H. Trimingham III

Mr. Eldon Trimingham is an esteemed classical painter, of the Romantic Period, whose commissioned works are at Buckingham Palace, the Smithsonian, other museums, and in private collections, internationally. Primarily specializing in historical marine paintings and in landscape paintings, he also paints portraits and has also produced paintings for the Blue Angels and Americas Cup. He is also an accomplished sailor, a Championship level croquet player, an Off-Shore World Champion powerboat racer and team owner—accomplishments, of which, are notable because he was born with cerebral palsy. He has also raised funds for a range of charities—also focusing on the needs of children with disabilities.

Visual Artist: Gherdai Hassell

Gherdai Hassell is a Bermudian born, China trained, multidisciplinary contemporary artist, writer and storyteller, based in Manchester, UK. Her work investigates memory and nostalgia through which, She explores mixed media collage and painting as a means to construct and deconstruct identity. Moving and curating materials through concepts of representation, perception, identity creation, and globalization. The thread of influence that runs through this work is the impact of histories, tales of transformation passed down through family lineages. The figure plays a central role in many of her works, simultaneously existing within realms of past, present, and future. The work suggests that identity should be self-determined and understood, and contextualized through connection with others. Her multimedia work reimagines relationships with the body as avatar, social space and the invisible world.

Line Producer – USA: Joe Farr

Joe C. Farr III started Trey Mojo Productions in 2005. He has been researching and interviewing subjects for a book on Coach Willie Jeffries – the first African American head football coach in NCAA Division-IA – while also editing video versions of the comedy podcast There It Is. At Tennis Channel, he aggregated, managed, and scheduled tennis content; developed programs in various genres; and led business development initiatives. While at ESPN, he was responsible for programming content in college football, college basketball, NCAA Championships, Track & Field, and Black History Month (to name a few). Under the BHM umbrella, he was the executive producer on Seasons of Change: The African American Athlete (2002 and 2003), Relatively Speaking: George Foreman, and Relatively Speaking: Joe Dumars. The 2002 installment of Seasons of Change won the NAMIC Vision Award for Best News/Informational Program. He has a BA from Duke University, where he was a four-year team manager for Mike Krzyzewski’s men’s basketball team (which included a trip to the Elite 8), and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Producer: H. Nelson Tracey

H. Nelson Tracey is a producer, director, and editor. His passion lies in crafting well-researched and engaging true stories that are not yet known to general audiences, and using the power of cinema for positive social change. He was an Associate Producer and Assistant Editor on Ski Bum: The Warren Miller Story, which won the 2019 Slamdance Audience Award for Breakout Feature. He directed and produced Picture Jasper, a festival award winning short documentary, as well as 4 narrative short films, and a one-hour travel documentary TV pilot Rock Men. His work has appeared on Hulu, Netflix, Disney+, and premiered at prominent film festivals worldwide, including Tribeca, HotDocs, and Sheffield. After meeting Dan Egan through shared involvement on Ski Bum, they have collaborated on 3 different web series in 2020 during the pandemic: Ski Talk With Dan Egan for SkiTalk.com, Legends Lounge for the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame, and Race Week for the New York Yacht Club. As a director/producer team, the Clyde Best biography is their first feature documentary.

Producer: Julie Anderson

Julie Anderson is an award winning non-fiction producer, director, writer and development executive. She is acclaimed for her inspirational insight and storytelling which has ignited programs and documentaries ranging in topics from race relations, education, social issues and sports.

She earned an Academy Award nomination for the documentary God Is The Bigger Elvis, which she produced for HBO Documentary Films. As Director of Documentary Development for HBO her projects included the series America Undercover and the Academy Award winning documentary Big Mama.

A well known sports producer, she developed ESPN’s Emmy award winning magazine shows OUTSIDE THE LINES and E:60. Anderson also co-created the award winning teen educational series Sportsfigures for HBO, which was recognized with several Clarion Awards for Best Children’s Programming, and numerous Parents Choice Awards as well as a regional EMMY Award.

Most recently, as the Executive Producer of Documentary Development at PBS, she executive produced the Emmy, Peabody and Dupont Journalism award winning series The African Americans, Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, as well as Gates’ series Finding Your Roots.

Anderson’s work has regularly appeared on ESPN, HBO Sports, HBO Documentary Films, PBS, CNN, CBS

Line Producer - Bermuda: Milton Raposo

Milton Raposo is the lead producer for Method Media Bermuda, which was started in 2011. Raposo has produced video content for a myriad of Bermudian subjects and events, from the island’s new hospital redevelopment, the last three general election year campaigns, tourism campaigns, the oceanic Exclusive Economic Zone, international sports and much more. Raposo, has also co-founded the environmental charity Greenrock in 2005 and served as its VP for two years and then sat on the first management committee of the Bermuda Environmental and Sustainability Taskforce (BEST). Raposo a former vice chair of both the Bermuda Arts Council and The Chewstick Foundation and former Bermuda Society of Arts board member. He is currently a member of the Heritage Advisory Council for the Bermuda Government since 2005 and treasurer of the Neil Burnie Foundation. As of January 2020, Raposo is the Media Arts adjunct lecturer at the Bermuda College.

Soccer Consultant: Charles Desmond Davies

Charlie Davies is an American soccer player. He set several soccer records at his high school, Brooks School, before appearing for the Boston College Eagles and the Westchester Flames in college. Davies signed his first professional contract with Swedish Allsvenskan club Hammarby IF in December 2006 before joining Sochaux in July 2009. Davies has been capped seventeen times for the United States national team, with four international goals. He is a cancer survivor and starting with the 2020 MLS season, Davies is the main color commentator for the New England Revolution, sharing his duties with Paul Mariner. Born in Manchester, New Hampshire, Davies’ father is an immigrant from the Gambia, and growing up Clyde Best was an inspiration figure for the young athlete. He is thrilled to be collaborating on bringing Best’s story to the screen.

Director: Dan Egan

Dan Egan is a master storyteller. Mentored by godfather of action sports documentaries Warren Miller in narration, he has fine tuned his craft through the years through live presentations, articles, hosting national television and radio shows as well as motivational speaking. As film producer he was awarded a Telly Award and he is a 3-time New England Emmy award nominee for his hour-long TV series Dan Egan’s Wild World of Winter. Egan has shot documentary television shows in some of the remote regions of the world including the Canadian Arctic, South America, Russia, and Argentina. He is a three-time NASJA Harold Hirsch award winner for excellence in journalism, authored three books, and has covered three Olympics as a contributor to the Boston Globe.

Egan is best known as a world-renowned extreme skier. He appeared in 12 Warren Miller ski films from 1985-1995 with his brother John. He was inducted into the US Skiing & Snowboarding Hall of Fame in 2016. His skiing exploits played a critical role in moving the word “extreme” from the mountains to Madison Fifth Avenue, creating the foundation for today’s YouTube and GoPro culture.

Prior to his skiing career, Egan was a varsity soccer athlete at Babson college, he attended Bridgton Academy where he played as a teammate to Gerry Best, the nephew of Clyde Best. Through this experience, Egan developed a decades-long rapport with Clyde Best, and now is in a unique position to take Best’s incredible life story and depict it cinematically.