MELONY AND ADAM LEWIS
It takes courage to say yes to a film before anyone knows what it will become, to read a treatment or watch a rough cut or simply trust a filmmaker's mind and eyes and decide that it matters, say, I will stand behind that. Melony and Adam have said yes to us four times now, at the moments that counted most. They've been Executive Producers on Aggie, Paint Me a Road Out of Here, Meanwhile, and And Again I Dream, Aubin's four most recent films, and among the most ambitious, most vital, most personal work we've ever made.
Independent documentary lives or dies in the space between an idea and its realization, and that space is where they've chosen, again and again, to meet us. They're not passive supporters standing at a comfortable distance. They're partners in the truest sense. Their belief has an enabling quality, it makes things possible, keeps the work moving when it would otherwise stall, and signals to everyone watching that this work is worth championing. Funders follow funders. Believers follow believers. They've helped make our belief in this work contagious.
And that space is where they've chosen, again and again, to meet us. They're not passive supporters standing at a comfortable distance. They're partners in the truest sense, where their belief has an enabling quality, it makes things possible, it keeps the work moving when it would otherwise stall, and it signals to everyone else watching that this work is worth championing too. That ripple is one of the most defining effects of what they give us. Funders follow funders. Believers follow believers. They've helped make our belief in this work contagious and we never take it for granted.
They are two of our 30 Luminaries because there is truly no version of our story, or our next chapter, that doesn’t have them woven through it.