KEY CREATIVE TEAM

We are a New York City-based team of young environmental filmmakers from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts on a mission to address and fight environmental issues through storytelling. As the next generation, we recognize that we must play an active, crucial role in solving the crises that threaten our future. It is our hope that through our filmmaking, we can inspire compassion and action in others by sharing the stories of people tackling humanity’s most urgent issues.

Simon Geisker is an NYC based director, producer, and documentarian. He began focusing on environmental subject matter during a National Geographic trip to Alaska in 2015, where he created a short documentary about the impact of climate change on subarctic ecosystems.

He continued to explore the implications of this planetary crisis with his twenty part mini-series, Looking Forward, which included interviews with UN policy advisors, New York Times journalists, and NASA scientists. In 2022 he graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a B.F.A in Film & TV Production, a double major in Environmental Studies, and a minor in The Business of Entertainment, Media and Technology.

Sophia Loren Heriveaux is a New York City based producer, screenwriter & director of both narrative and documentary films, and since 2017 has operated her production company Goldfin Films.

Currently an undergraduate student pursuing a B.F.A. in Film & Television Production at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with minors in Art History and Business of Entertainment, Media and Technology, Sophia has worked on short and feature length productions.

In 2019, Sophia spent her summer working at Miramax in Los Angeles as a Production & Development intern. Her independent work has been shot around the world from New York to Los Angeles, France, China, South Africa and Ethiopia. As a vegan and environmentalist, Grounded is the perfect opportunity for Sophia to engage the future generation of leaders to become knowledgeable about the climate crisis and active changemakers of their own destiny.