Academy Award®-nominated filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal founded Elsewhere Films in 2007 to create documentary films of cultural relevance, social purpose and artistic integrity. They directed and produced the acclaimed Trouble the Water, a film about survivors of Hurricane Katrina, which was nominated for an Oscar for best documentary feature, and won the Gotham Independent Film Award and Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. They also directed and produced Citizen Koch, which documented the rise of the Tea Party in the American Midwest that laid the groundwork for the election of Donald Trump and the birth of MAGA. Tia and Carl are also longtime collaborators of Michael Moore, and produced Fahrenheit 9/11, winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, Academy Award-winning Bowling for Columbine, Capitalism: A Love Story, Where To Invade Next and Fahrenheit 11/9.