Cleanse
Beverly Chukwu - Producer
Beverly Chukwu is a writer and filmmaker based out of Austin. She is a former episode writer for New Sky Kids, a run that spanned the course of two seasons for two different shows on YouTube. Before starting her current job as a full-time video production coordinator for Dimensional, Beverly worked under the guidance of Kristin Mann, producer of Poor Boy (2016). With Mann, Beverly acted as both a producer's assistant and script coverage writer for Mann's upcoming feature projects. Cleanse is the first project that Beverly has produced, but since wrapping the film in 2017, she has gone on to cast, produce, and serve as a script consultant for various short film projects. During this time, Beverly has also become highly involved with Austin Bat Cave, a non-profit organization that creates free writing programs for kids. As of August 2019, Beverly will be starting a fully funded, three-year, writing fellowship with the Michener Center for Writers, one of the top writing programs in the nation. She will, of course, continue making films that speak peculiar truths, which is why she fell in love with M. Burger's script for Cleanse.
M. Burger - Director
M.Burger (Magdalene Burger) is a Writer/Director/Producer/Storyteller/Basic White Latina based in Austin, TX. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BA in International Relations. Magdalene’s first short doc, Pregnancy Party, was featured at Transform Film Festival, Texas’s first all-women film festival. Her most recent short film, Cleanse, won Best Supernatural Horror Short at the Women in Horror Film Festival in Atlanta. And her collection of short stories, You’ll Never Believe How These Kids Get Murdered: and other clickbait tales, is now available for purchase on Amazon. The last film she produced, Sweet Sweet Kink: a collection of BDSM stories, a collection of doc, animated shorts premiered at SXSW in the Texas Shorts collection and has been screened nationally at acclaimed festivals such as Frameline43, Deadcenter Film Festival, Cinekink and much more
Alexandra Bohannon- Producer
Alexandra Bohannon has been in the performing arts since childhood. In college, she transitioned into working theatre tech during her undergraduate degree for the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) theatre department and the Broadway Tonight Performing Arts series. Bohannon graduated summa cum laude from UCO with her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature in 2013. She transitioned her theatrical, analytical, and organizational skill set to film after receiving her Master of Public Administration degree at the University of Oklahoma in 2016. Bohannon has worked on numerous film projects, both short and feature length, including being associate producer on the feature film "You People" which has its world premiere in June 2017 at deadCENTER film festival. She is currently based in Oklahoma, working in advertising and producing on the side
Jacob Leighton Burns - Director of Photography
When Jacob was in third grade, he told his school counselor that he was going to be a director when he grew up, and ever since then he has been working towards that goal. After spending years convincing friends and family to appear in his charmingly offbeat no-budget home movies, Jacob enrolled as a film production major at Oklahoma City University where his love of filmmaking and passion for storytelling expanded and flourished. While attending OCU, Jacob and his brother, Zachary Burns, met Vinnie Hogan, laying the foundation of what would eventually become Planet Thunder Productions. Electric Nostalgia, Jacob's feature length debut as a writer/director, screened in various cities across the US and won multiple awards along the way. His followup film, Shifter, is currently in post-production.
