Filmmakers

George Ratliff
Director / Producer

George Ratliff made the feature documentary “Plutonium Circus” directly after graduating from the University of Texas film program.  “Plutonium Circus,” about the people who worked within or lived around the nuclear bomb plant, Pantex, won the South by Southwest Film Festival and was granted a timid theatrical release.

After moving to New York, Ratliff continued in documentary with the feature “Hell House“, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.  “Hell House,” about a Texas mega-church’s Halloween haunted house that was designed to scare kids into Christianity, received a mild theatrical release from 7th Art Releasing and was released robustly on DVD by Plexifilm.

Ratliff then co-wrote and directed the narrative feature “Joshua”, about an evil 9-year old boy in Manhattan.  “Joshua” was sold for a fortune at the Sundance Film Festival to Fox Searchlight, which granted it a worldwide theatrical and dvd release.

Zachary Mortensen
Producer

Mortensen is the founder of Ghost Robot, a production and management company in New York City. Recent productions include “Against The Current” staring Joseph Fiennes, Michelle Trachtenberg and Mary Tyler Moore, the Gotham Award winning feature film “Choking Man” by iconoclastic music video director Steve Barron as well as “Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox” the critically acclaimed documentary by director Sara Lamm.  In spring 2008 Ghost Robot produced the awe-inspiring 3D music video for Bjork’s “Wanderlust.”

Mortensen’s feature “Road” by director Leslie McCleave premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival 2005 where it was awarded outstanding performance for the two leads, Catherine Kellner and Ebon Moss-Bachrach and followed its theatrical release with a run on Showtime. Mortensen previously produced the award winning documentary features “Breath Control: The History of the Human Beat Box” and “Hell House” by George Ratliff.

Together with Joshua Zeman, Mortensen is developing “KINGSTON” with writer/director Richard Regen and “Welcome to Forest Grove” the first narrative feature by acclaimed director Jonathan Caouette.

Selina Lewis Davidson
Producer

Selina Lewis Davidson co-founded GreenHouse Pictures with Nancy Roth. GreenHouse Pictures is a New York/Northern California-based documentary production company dedicated to diverse stories from a variety of perspectives that enlighten, educate and entertain. Formerly known as Mixed Greens Documentaries, the company has produced more than 12 nationally broadcast documentaries exploring a wide range of topics. Recent projects include: Hard Road Home, (director: Macky Alston) which had its broadcast premiere on the PBS series Independent Lens in Feb. 2008. Occupation: Dreamland, a cinema verité portrait of American infantrymen serving in Fallujah, Iraq, (directors: Garrett Scott and Ian Olds) which was released theatrically in 2005, won the 2006 Independent Spirit Truer than Fiction award and aired on the Sundance Channel in 2006; Pack, Strap, Swallow (director: Holly Paige Joyner) which aired on the Sundance Channel in 2006; The Perfect Life, (director: Sam Lee) which had its world premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2006, and; Selina was Director of Documentary Programming at Mixed Greens for four years, where she produced films including George Ratliff’s critically acclaimed Hell House (theatrical release 2002), Macky Alston’s Questioning Faith (Cinemax/Reel life), Hannah Weyer’s Escuela (POV/PBS), Bryan Gunnar Cole’s Boomtown (POV/PBS), and Sarah Price’s Caesar’s Park (Sundance Channel). Selina was also Supervising Producer for three documentaries that were part of Mixed Greens’ New Directors program. They include 156 Rivington, which premiered on the Sundance Channel in October 2003 as well as Slumming It: Myth & Culture on the Bowery and The Federation of Black Cowboys, both of which premiered on the Reel New York Series on Thirteen/WNET in 2005. Prior to joining Mixed Greens, Selina produced documentary film and television in L.A. and New York. Her credits as a producer include the feature documentary Family Name (director: Macky Alston) which premiered at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival and won the Freedom of Expression Award. The film was also nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Historical Programming after it aired nationally in 1998 on the PBS documentary series POV/American Documentary.