Mission Statement

As filmmakers, we seek to understand the natural world in all its magnificence and imperfection by exploring issues that are both global and local in scope. We are dedicated to education through tenacious research and objective journalism. With a focus on inspired storytelling, our films capture the triumph and struggle of the human spirit. Our fulfillment of creative vision is through collaboration, due diligence, and utilization of both fundamental and innovative filmmaking tools and techniques.

     Photo by Michael Todd.

Jeremy Leach

After graduating from Villanova University in 1996 with a degree in Political Science, Jeremy Leach began his career in film and video production in the Boston area, shooting for Cramer Productions, a critically acclaimed corporate video production company. After spending four years at Cramer under the tutelage of Robert Magro, an esteemed Boston-based director of photography, Jeremy traveled for six months through the Balkans, Turkey, and Southeast Asia, documenting his journey in photographs. Upon his return to Boston in August 2001, he, with the help of a friend and local business owner, organized an opening to display his work.

In the fall of 2001, Jeremy was offered a position as a director of photography at Northern Light Productions, an award-winning documentary production company. Over five years at Northern Light, Jeremy worked in leadership roles on multiple projects for clients including PBS, The History Channel, and the National Park Service, shooting and directing films both domestically and internationally, including extensive productions in Estonia, Turkey, Armenia, and China. These projects were demanding both physically and technically, involving elaborate set-ups and requiring expertise in multiple formats, ranging from Mini-DV to HD to Super 16mm. These productions were also challenging logistically and creatively, requiring management of multiple actors and large crews consisting of fight coordinators, special effects technicians, black powder specialists, and animal trainers. Concurrently, Jeremy worked as a cinematographer on several award winning, independent documentaries including "The Dhamma Brothers: East Meets West in the Deep South" and "Killer Poet". For these projects, Jeremy enacted a different set of filmmaking skills - those of an engaged observer working in challenging shooting environments, expertly capturing his surroundings in a focused, thoughtful manner.

In late 2006, Jeremy left Northern Light Productions and moved to Brooklyn to work independently, freelancing as a cinematographer and director of photography. Shortly thereafter, in 2007, he fulfilled a lifelong dream of owning a production company and started Lost City Pictures. As a contract cinematographer, Jeremy has continued working extensively in both HD and film, recently shooting 35mm film on a project for the New England Patriots and HD on a 2 hour special for The History Channel called "Primal Fear". Under the auspices of Lost City Pictures, Jeremy has most recently collaborated with artist/director Wendy-Snyder MacNeil on her children's film, "The Go Cart", which has been entered for acceptance in several domestic and international children's film festivals.

Throughout his career, Jeremy has had the great fortune to work with incredibly talented artists and filmmakers. He has learned the nuanced disciplines of lighting, shooting, directing, sound design, and editing by observing friends, mentors, and colleagues commit to their craft and, in turn, open the doors of creative possibility. As a filmmaker, Jeremy has been commended for his masterful cinematographic, directorial, and editorial skills, respectful collaborative style, "big picture" creative vision, and intellectual curiosity coupled with an adventurous, passionate spirit. With the undying support of his family, friends, and fellow filmmakers, he looks forward to a career of creative collaboration, education, service to the community, and personal growth as an artist.

     Photo by Victoria Wall.

Aoife Nugent

Aoife Nugent has been working for the past 5 years as a producer, project coordinator, editor, and researcher for documentary and independent fictional films. After receiving a degree in Journalism from UMASS Amherst in 2001, she began her career traveling, teaching English, and eventually working as a researcher at Trinity University in Dublin. Upon returning to the United States, Aoife worked as an editorial assistant for a small publisher of educational books. Soon thereafter, she moved on to pursue her dream of working as a documentary filmmaker, producing her first film - a documentary on Jamaican migrant farm workers titled "On the Other Side". The film is currently distributed through Documentary Educational Resources located in the Boston area. Over a six-month period, in an effort to create an accurate portrayal of the migrant workers and life on the farm, Aoife and her fellow filmmakers made weekly trips out to western Massachusetts, often spending multiple days and nights filming with the workers. Through this immersive approach and the life-changing relationships that subsequently developed, the film effectively captures the human struggle of a much sensationalized and often misunderstood aspect of the American farming community.

Just after completion of "On the Other Side", she joined the award-winning documentary production company, Northern Light Productions, where she worked as an associate producer on films for high profile clients including The History Channel, PBS, and the Smithsonian Museum. It was during this time that she honed her skills as a field producer, traveling and working for extended periods of time both domestically and internationally, hiring crews, researching relevant subject matter, and directing interviews. Her ability to work effectively in potentially difficult situations and to fully engage in the filmmaking process as both a storyteller and a compassionate observer and listener are traits that Aoife brings to every production.

She moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 2007 where she began working as the coordinating producer for the documentary, "Nursery University", which is currently being theatrically released. Since then, she has directed her own projects and worked as a producer, production coordinator, and editor on outside projects. Her most recent work includes creative roles as co-editor and graphic designer on a children's film, "The Go Cart", and as producer and director of an experimental film, combining modern, alternative music and 16mm footage shot by her grandfather in Ireland in 1961.