Meet Our Team...
Producer
Jennifer Wiggin
As Co-Founder, Owner and Executive Producer of Atomic Focus Entertainment, LLC. Jenn has overseen the creation, production and distribution of multiple film and streaming projects. She was previously the Executive Producer in charge of Production for The STAGE Network and produced all original content for the Network. She has produced talk shows, unscripted reality series, short films, documentary series and filmed theatrical events. Precious to her work in film and television, she worked as a theatre producer in NYC for more than a decade.
Director/Producer
Kate Way
Kate is a longtime educator, photographer, and documentary filmmaker. Kate holds a doctorate in Education with a focus on critical media literacy and the politics of K-12 schooling. As a documentarian her major film projects include Stop Time (2022), distributed by New Day Films, and G is for Gun (2018), distributed by Bulldog Films. G is for Gun premiered nationally on the PBS WORLD Channel in 2018 and was chosen to headline the Meet the Press Festival in Washington, D.C. the same year. Kate is currently a Professor of Digital Media at UMass Lowell.
Producer/Director
Tom Wiggin
Tom’s work at Atomic Focus continues a professional show business career that has spanned five decades. He started as an actor, playing leads on Broadway (Grease), Off-Broadway (Livin’ Dolls), on Prime Time TV (Breaking Away) and on daytime TV (As the World Turns), among numerous stage and TV credits.
Tom has served as a creator, developer, producer, story editor and director for a variety of projects such as Crossovers Live!, Always Authors, Thursday in the Park with the Broadway Show League, and The Charleston Literary Festival.
Producer
Allyson Rice
Allyson began as an actress for decades on stage, radio, primetime TV (Family Ties, 413 Hope Street, Time Cop) and daytime (As the World Turns). She was Assoc. Director of Creative Development and a producer for The STAGE Network. She continued as a producer with Atomic Focus. Independently, she created and performed a multi-award-winning comedic rap music video (Fine, I’ll Write My Own Damn Song). As a writer she has written two TV pilots, three screenplays and is an award-winning author and narrator for her novel The Key to Circus-Mom Highway (2023).
School Engagement and Community Outreach Consultant
Dorri C. Scott
Dorri C. Scott, a Social Justice / Equity champion is a doctoral candidate (Education Leadership and Organization Innovation) committed to “no ban on books.” She works closely with the Banned Together” documentary team and together they connect to audiences tin libraries, schools, and communities throughout the US.
Post screening educational conversations and Q/A sessions help to advance student advocacy, leadership and civic engagement.
A College Professor, Thought Leader and CEO of the Wise Woman; Dorri is a best selling author and uses her infectious personality and voice to uplift, educate, advocate and inspire.
Editor
Cha Quallis
Charnelle “Cha” Quallis (she/her) is a film editor. She began her career editing creative and promotional content for broadcast and digital platforms at NBC Sports & Olympics. But after three emmys and six years in sports production, she decided to follow her passion for documentary storytelling. Cha has since worked on a handful of documentaries that re-examine history and highlight the journey and achievements of marginalized individuals.
More recently, she edited Fantastic Negrito: Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? which won the Executive’s Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Pan African Film Festival in 2023. She also was an editor on Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy which was a 2022 duPont-Columbia Award Finalists.
Composer
Kim Bullard
A multi instrumentalist and composer, currently in the studio with Elton John arranging two Broadway musicals. Kim has worked for various TV composers including Snuffy Walden, on the shows Once and Again, The West Wing, and Felicity. Kim composed all music for the Comedy Central series That’s My Bush, produced by the South Park team, scored five feature films, hundreds of commercials, and has appeared on records with Nine Inch Nails, Yes, Cheap Trick, Santana, Elton John, Ice Cube, Wierd Al, and many more. Kim has written and produced songs for the films Mean Girls, Team America World Police, 10 Things I Hate About You, The Karate Kid, UHF, and Thirteen.
Streaming Service Provider
Kanopy
Kanopy is the leading video streaming service providing films that matter through public libraries and colleges worldwide. Kanopy has 30,000+ films in its catalog. Partnering with filmmakers and film and video distributors, Kanopy offers access to wide-ranging, engaging narratives, insightful documentaries, and riveting television and instructional series. Supplies include BBC, Criterion, NEON, Samuel Goldwyn, HISTORY, A&E, The Great Courses, Kino Lorber, A24 and IFC Films. Kanopy’s ad-free platform is available via browser and on iOS, Android, and all major streaming devices, including Roku, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Samsung Smart TV. OverDrive’s acquisition of Kanopy in 2021 brought together the largest catalog of premium ebooks, audiobooks, and streaming video content for thousands of public libraries, colleges, and universities. www.kanopy.com