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02/24/2026
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Alana has over 12 years’ experience in marketing and communications, having worked for agencies in both London and Bermuda. Her strengths are blending strategic marketing with standout content and copywriting. Currently leading content for BermudaTourism Authority, her work can be seen internationally promoting the island to key markets. Through campaign development, brand storytelling, and cross-platform content strategy, her passion lies in telling the story of Bermuda to increase the island’s presence globally. Known for crafting clear, compelling, and conversion-driven copy, Alana has been managing the on-island communications from the beginning of this project.
William Gillis is a leader of high end clientele care and sales. He has dealt with clients worldwide In relationship development and sales procuration across multiple industries. Williams’ attention and care for all clients and execution process is what differentiates him between other relations and sales managers. He has been involved with the documentary since the conception and contributed to both the story development and the commercialization of the project.
Tony D. Head is an award nominated actor who has been featured in the critically acclaimed off Broadway production of “Hounds of War” at the Abingdon theatre. Tony has appeared in many primetime series including the HBO hit series THE WIRE, and has also appeared in HBO’s THE CORNER , THE DEUCE ,VEEP, LAW and ORDER SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT, FBI’s MOST WANTED, FX’s AMERICAN SPORTS STORY and had a recurring role in the STARZ Mini series THREE WOMEN starring Shailene Woodley, Blair Underwood and Dewanda Wise. In 2020 Head wrote produced and starred in The CASE which has won over 50 awards worldwide and is being developed for television.
He currently can be seen as a HENRY in the hit Tyler Perry show ZATIMA on BET+.
Head has appeared and been featured in films including JOKER starring Joaquin Phoenix, LAZY SUSAN, with Sean Hayes and Matthew Broderick, MAYA AND HER LOVER, A NEW YORK CHRISTMAS WEDDING and THEY TURNED US INTO KILLERS.
Head is the on-camera narrator of new Documentary film, “Transforming the Beautiful Game, The Clyde Best Story”. He is featured on location in Bermuda, London, Portland, Tampa, and Boston during the film. Tony lives in Manhattan NY.
This led him to Modeling/Acting and video production after he got settled in Florida after moving from Haiti. Felix fell in love with cinematography and its unique ability to tell stories through a visual language that transcends all language barriers. Obas, specializes in graphics, animation and visual art. He brings his life experience to his filming, editing, animation create insightful and emotional the storytelling
When not creating, you’ll either find Felix at the gym, playing or watching a rugby match or at home with his wife and three children.
Jasmine Lee is a Bermudian artist, curator, and arts advocate who believes in the power of art, and of exhibitions, to enrich, enlighten, and challenge communities. Jasmine is dedicated to empowering underrepresented artists, ensuring they are seen and understood through their own perspectives. Her curatorial work aims to broaden the scope, and definition, of contemporary art and artists, particularly in Bermuda and the wider Caribbean region.
Currently, she is one of the 2024-25 Curatorial Fellows with New Curators in London, UK, on secondment from her role as Museum & Gallery Exhibitions Officer at Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art.
In the mid 1990’s major brands came calling for his talents from Jeep, Adidas, Nike and others for their television commercials and brands. Grissom has been on the highest peaks and inside boardrooms with his signature attention to detail and flare for capturing the moment and emotions of athletes, brands and corporate executives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.