Filmmakers-in-Residence

The Mosque in Morgantown

Brittany Huckabee

The Mosque in Morgantown chronicles the unfolding drama within a Muslim community in small-town West Virginia. The verite-style documentary follows Asra Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal correspondent, as she pushes for change at the mosque her father helped to found three decades ago. It also tells the stories of other mosque members, in their own words, as they work to determine the shape of their religious community.

Brittany Huckabee is the principal of Version One Production, Inc., a television production company based in Boston and Washington, D.C. Prior to founding Version One Productions, Huckabee served as a frequent producer and director for the Washington-based production company New River Media, where credits included four documentaries and two weekly series that aired nationally on PBS. Most recently, she produced, directed and edited the three-hour historical documentary series Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism.

Animas Perdidas

Monika Navarro

In 1999, two brothers were deported from the U.S. to Mexico. Within two weeks one of the brothers overdosed on heroin in a seedy Tijuana hotel room, his body unclaimed for two months in a mass grave. Raised in the U.S. since childhood and military vets, these men were deported from the only country they knew, and had sworn to protect.

Animas Perdidas (Lost Souls) is Monika Navarro's debut documentary feature, funded in part by an Emerging Artist's Grant from the City of Ventura Council for the Humanities. Animas Perdidas was selected to screen at the 2006 IFP Market as a Work-in-Progress in the Spotlight on Documentaties. Monika is a first-generation Mexican-American and was raised in Ventura, California. She has lived and traveled in Mexico, and served as a youth delegate in 2000 with the Chiapas Media Project. Monika received her BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University in 2003, and currently lives in Massachusetts.