The One Love Foundation
A national nonprofit with the goal of ending relationship abuse by empowering young people with the tools and resources they need to see the signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships.

The Safe & Together Institute
A global network of DV-informed child welfare professionals, communities, and systems. With an internationally recognized suite of tools and interventions, S&TI helps child welfare professionals become domestic violence-informed.

Becca E. Davis from Defiant Arc Entertainment

ADVISORY BOARD:

Leslie Morgan Steiner
New York Times best-selling author, columnist for The Washington Post | TED Talk: Why Domestic Violence Victims Don't Leave — 4+ million views

Gretchen Shaw
Deputy Director | National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Deb DeBare
Capacity Technical Assistance Senior Deputy Director | National Network to End Domestic Violence

Julia Saladino
Senior Staff Attorney | National Network to End Domestic Violence

Leah K. Vejzovic
E-Learning & Events Development Coordinator | Safe & Together Institute

Radhika Sharma Gordon
Manager of Education & Outreach | Apna Ghar

Vickie Smith
President & CEO | Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence

The Network
A collaborative membership organization to end domestic violence | The Network

Maggie Arthur
Director of Education & Training | Resilience

Emma Gonzalez
Senior Prevention Educator | Resilience

Gina Manlove
Psychotherapist / Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Production Company: Aggressively Compassionate is an impact-driven filmmaking company that specializes in producing films for nonprofits and other good causes.

Writer / Director / Producer: Adam Joel is an impact-driven filmmaker and a survivor of relationship abuse. After graduating with a film degree from Northwestern University, he co-founded Aggressively Compassionate, a production company that makes films for good causes. His directorial debut, Under the Weather, screened at universities to spark mental health discussions between students and faculty. He was the Impact Manager for an education film called No Small Matter, by Kindling Group, where he coordinated 1,300+ screening events for advocates, educators, and legislators in all 50 states. To write The Last Drop, he consulted dozens of other survivors and experts.

Impact Producer: Sydney Bauer is the Client Success Manager of Storybolt, a company that uses documentaries to curate programming around DEI for their clients. She also hosts a podcast on relationship abuse called Love is Not and freelances as a documentary filmmaker, focusing on impact campaigns. In 2018, Sydney was a Member of the Obama Foundation’s Community Leadership Corps. 

Co-Producer: Max Asaf is a Chicago-based freelance documentary filmmaker. Max served as the development coordinator at Kartemquin Films, helping raise over $5 million for the organization and its films. In the fall of 2019, Max left Kartemquin to freelance full-time, producing projects from award-winning documentary and fiction filmmakers - including as the Co-Producer on the documentary short The Sebastopol Siege and as the Co-Producer on The Last Strike, an upcoming feature documentary by Kindling Group on the 1981 PATCO strike. Max is in post-production on his feature documentary directorial debut, Within the Box, an early version of which screened at the Cannes Short Film Corner.

Director of Photography:  Madelyn Momano is an award-winning cinematographer based out of Chicago.  Her experience covers a vast spectrum of genres in the narrative, commercial, and documentary space, including working  as a steadicam operator for popular artists like Chance the Rapper. Her recent film, Jack & Anna, won several awards at 30+ festivals for its portrayal of an LGBTQ+ couple in the 1900s, based on true events.

Awards for Jack & Anna (shot by Madelyn Momano): Cannes Lions YDA 2020 shortlist; Best Global Short: Beyond the Rainbow Award at the 2019 SCAD Savannah Film Festival; Best LGBTQ Short Platinum Award, Platinum Award, Best Student Short Gold Award at the Independent Short Awards, Los Angeles; Best Film, Best Drama and Best Production Design at the GSF Awards - Global Short Film Awards; Best Student Film at the European Cinematography AWARDS (ECA). It was an official selection of the Academy Award®-qualifying 28th St. Louis Film Festival. The most recent selections include the American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award®-qualifying Indy Shorts International Film Festival.

Intimacy Coordinator: Kirsten Baity - “I’m a Black, queer, theater artist working toward creating empowering space that creates lasting social change... I am a writer, deviser, intimacy director, and sex educator who is passionate about creating art that excavates the history that has been washed out and swept under the rug.”

Lead Actress: Molly Hernandez is a bilingual actress raised in Chicago. She was the 2017 recipient of the Award of Excellence in Musical Theater from the IL Theatre Association and was nominated for a Jeff Award for a principal role in a musical. Molly also appeared in the Chicago Tribune: Fresh Faces top 20 Performances of the Year. Credits include Alice Through the Lookingglass (Lookingglass Theatre); American Mariachi (Goodman Theatre); Chicago Med (NBC), and Chicago PD (NBC)

Lead Actor: Forrest Weber is an actor known for his roles in: NBC's The Blacklist, NBC's American Odyssey, Fox's Gotham, Cinemax's The Knick, A&E's Unforgettable, Hulu's Castle Rock, the NBC pilot, Hatfields & McCoys, and the ABC pilot, Broad Squad. Film credits include: Spotlight (SAG Award, Best Cast Ensemble), the third lead in Tater Tot & Patton (on Amazon Prime, from the producer of Napoleon Dynamite) and the short film, Pike County (also on Amazon Prime). 

Full Spectrum Features
A nonprofit production company committed to educating the public about social issues. You can donate to The Last Drop through our Donation Page on their website.