The Team

Jay Kleberg
Director, Producer

Jay is the Executive Director of the Gulf of Mexico Trust and previously served as Associate Director of Texas Parks Wildlife Foundation. He co-produced Deep in the Heart: A Texas Wildlife Story and was Associate Producer of The River and the Wall.

Chrissy Kleberg
Director, Producer, Cinematographer

Chrissy is a former wildlife field biologist and photographer. She has conducted avian research and reintroduction work with the U.S. Geological Survey, University of Florida and The Peregrine Fund in Hawaii, Florida, New Mexico and Texas.

John Aldrich
Producer, Editor

John has twenty-five years of experience in documentary filmmaking, producing, editing and shooting three award-winning documentary features: An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story, Audubon, and The River and the Wall.

Skip Hobbie
Producer, Director of Photography

Skip is an Emmy Award-winning wildlife cinematographer based in Austin, Texas. He has filmed for National Geographic, BBC, Netflix, and PBS. Skip’s latest credits include his role as the Director of Photography on Deep in the Heart: A Texas Wildlife Story and as a producer and lead cinematographer on the PBS: Nature film Big Bend: The Wild Frontier of Texas.

Series

Stella Yrigoyen
Associate Producer/Editor

Henry Davis
Cinematographer

Patrick Thrash
Cinematographer

Karine Aigner
Photographer

Peter Stopschinski
Original Music

Jim Ward
Opening Theme & Trailer

Landry Gideon
Sound Mixer

JR Rodriguez
Sound Mixer

Lyman Hardy/Stuck On On
Post-production Sound Mixer

Allison Turrell/Stuck On On
Post Audio Producer

Alex Winker
Colorist

Emma Schmidt
Illustrator

Ian Robinson/Softbox Media
Motion Graphics 

Katherine Hill
Production Manager

Stephanie DeWaters
Communications Manager

Anne Marie Fayan
Education Content Producer

Book

Katy Baldock
Book Design and Composition

Cameron Stein/ Greenleaf Book Company
Book Design and Composition

Travis Smith
Photograph Colorist

Emma Schmidt
Illustrator