THE LIFE AFTER TEAM
LISA DOWNS
Director / Producer / Editor
Child of the 80s and teen of the 90s, Lisa loves everything nostalgia. An advocate of vinyl, physical media, actual photos, writing letters with a pen and avoiding the Cloud at all costs, Lisa started her documentary career whilst at University in Wagga Wagga (a country town in Australia with plenty of kangaroos and cow-tipping being the local past-time) when she made a documentary short on location in India - LOST CHILDREN OF TIBET - which won the Grand Jury Prize at the New York Video & Film Festival.
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After a few years in travel documentaries and adventure travel series, Lisa directed her first scripted feature JUST ATE, before conveniently chatting to a friend at a birthday party to a friend who happened to have just worked with Sam J Jones (yes, Flash Gordon himself) - a few wines and a treatment later, Lisa found herself Skyping the man who saved everyone of us, and the Life After series was born.
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As a fun fact, Lisa misses overhead projectors, those little pads that kept falling out under the cassette tape, finding gems in the weekly aisle at Blockbuster, and only having 4 television channels to pick from.
ASHLEY PUGH
Producer
Child of the 70s and teen of the 80s, Ashley Pugh made his mark producing some pretty awesome music videos for pretty cool artists, like Amy Winehouse, Paul McCartney and Tom Jones. After meeting Lisa, they took on the nostalgia journey together with Ash being instrumental in helping LIFE AFTER FLASH a) get off the ground and b) get over the finish line with a lot of (as the documentary credits confirm), tea and tissues.
A huge fan of Back to the Future (he made his own Flux Capacitor), Goodfellas and as a teen - Jennifer Connelly in Labyrinth - the Life After series couldn't happen with Ash constantly telling Lisa to "get back in that edit room and finish the film". It works!
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Ash also directed & produced his own documentary last year, NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCKCHAIN, as well as produced the scripted feature BY LIGHT OF DESERT NIGHT, also released 2020.
We Couldn't Do These Projects Without:
RICHARD BAKEWELL
Co-Producer
NEIL BURN
Co-Producer
AMER HILAL
Executive Producer
MICHAEL M CHRISTIE
Executive Producer
BOB LINDENMAYER
Design Genius
PRAKSHEP BHATT
Associate Producer
TOBY DUNHAM
Composer
ED EMMERSON
Graphics
