Filmmakers
Josh Wolff
Director, Cinematographer
Josh has been a classroom teacher for over seven years. He has taught English, Mathematics, and Social Studies to inner city middle school students in New York and also English as a Second Language in the rural, mountainous Japanese town of Ishibe, outside of Kyoto. It was here where he learned how to both bow and use chopsticks properly.
Along his travels around Asia and Africa Josh’s video camera quickly became as commonplace as his passport and soon after earning his Master’s degree, Discovery Education picked up Josh to help produce the first Discovery Educator Abroad program around the Pacific Rim. Over the course of four months, Josh traveled with the cast and crew of the Travel Channel’s “5 Takes” producing digital stories for each city he would visit all while encouraging students following his journey to do the same.
Most recently Josh collaborated with the youth of the forthcoming documentary Voices of Uganda to produce Video Diaries on the set of the film in northern Uganda (voicesofuganda.org). He currently works as an Instructional Technology Specialist in New York City where he teaches teachers and students how to produce and integrate digital media and online technologies from within the classroom. Mi Aldea, Mi Langosta is his directorial debut.
Chris Vitale
Producer, Sound
Following an undergraduate degree in History, Chris pursued his interest in film by working in various capacities on such films as Being John Malkovich, Nurse Betty, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and Delivering Milo. After relocating to New York from Los Angeles, Chris developed his skills in production sound mixing on experimental features and through his work at Lentini Communications. Chris has traveled extensively in Central and South America, Europe, the Middle East and the Asian sub-continent. His previous experience in Nicaragua led to his interest in this documentary about the perils of lobster diving in the Northern Atlantic Autonomous Region of the country. Chris is an experienced PADI-certified advanced open water diver.
Brad Allgood
Producer, Cinematographer
Brad works as a freelance producer, director, writer, and cinematographer for film and television in Washington, D.C. He has a diverse background in biological and physical sciences as well as international development, Latin American affairs, and public health. He served for 3 ½ years in the Peace Corps in Nicaragua, during which time he discovered his passion for film and television through his work on a youth HIV/AIDS television project. Brad has produced and directed numerous projects, including television commercials, live concerts, documentaries, promotional videos, and many short narrative films. He has worked on countless other independent productions in the D.C. area, including an advocacy film for the Friends of the Earth, a 30-minute documentary for Maryland Public Television entitled EcoViews: Reclaiming the Bay, and an award-winning independent comedy film.
While interning with National Geographic Television, Brad worked on several award-winning specials for the National Geographic Channel and for NOVA. Currently, Brad is working on a one-hour documentary on-location in Botswana (The Road We Know), co-writing the pilot for a television sitcom, and producing videos for non-profit organizations such as Africare and Ashoka. Brad is a graduate of the University of Georgia (B.S. Biology and Geology), and he is currently pursuing his M.A. in Film and Video Production at American University in Washington, D.C .
Isabelle Carbonelle
Cinematographer
Isabelle Carbonell is a documentary photographer and documentary filmmaker whose determination to give a voice to the voiceless has driven her to document political and social injustices around the world. When filming, she becomes her environment — sleeping, eating, and breathing with those she is focusing on; transcending the divide between observer and subject easily while still remaining objective. With all the ambitions of an artist, she also employs her rigorous academic training as a researcher to produce an in-depth reportage. As a result, her documentary films and photos reveal a deeply complex social understanding while still offering an exquisite artistic vision.
Unique in her perspectives and methods, she also comes from a wide cultural background as half-Belgian and half-Uruguayan. Based out of Washington D.C., she graduated from the Residential College at the University of Michigan with degrees in Environmental and Social Science, Photography and Filmmaking. Her documentary skills have taken her to countries such as India, Qatar, Cuba, Mexico, Vietnam, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, and Argentina.