North Star Rising

From the award-winning filmmakers of MAKE A CIRCLE, NORTH STAR RISING is a new documentary capturing New Mexico’s historic win for universal child care, and the lessons it holds for the rest of the country. Now in production.

OUR TEAM

Jen Bradwell and Todd Boekelheide have decades of collective experience as a film editor and a composer on Oscar- and Emmy-winning films and high-impact commercial work. In addition to our work as independent filmmakers, we bring our creative rigor to producing thoughtful, entertaining, and cinematic content for nonprofit and commercial clients.

ABOUT JEN

Jen Bradwell directs and edits video content for non-profit organizations and causes, including the upcoming social media video series RAISE and a short documentary about New Mexico’s historic universal child care win. She frequently speaks about narrative change as a lever for cultural and policy change around pressing social issues. Jen has edited more than 15 feature documentaries for directors including Jennifer Siebel Newsom, James Redford and Jesse Moss. Two seminal projects she wrote and edited (RESILIENCE and PAPER TIGERS) have had more than 60,000 community screenings to date, helping ignite a national conversation about childhood trauma. Jen has taught editing master classes at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and UC Santa Cruz’s Social Documentation program.

ABOUT TODD

Before stepping into directing and cinematography in 2020, Todd Boekelheide’s long and varied career began with editing picture and sound on STAR WARS and THE BLACK STALLION. He subsequently mixed sound on numerous Oscar-winning films, and won an Academy Award for his work on AMADEUS. He then built a career composing music for documentaries, including HEARTS OF DARKNESS, BALLETS RUSSES, SEÑORITA EXTRAVIADA, and 3½ MINUTES, TEN BULLETS. Todd has been an advisor at numeous Sundance labs and has worked with a stellar list of filmmakers: David Fincher, Carroll Ballard, David Lynch, Jon Else, Milos Forman, Philip Kaufman, David Peoples, Bill Couturié, Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, Lourdes Portillo and many others.