The Team

  • ABIGAIL E. DISNEY
    Executive Producer and Director

    Abigail E. Disney is a filmmaker, philanthropist and the CEO and president of Fork Films. Disney’s longtime passion for women’s issues and peace building culminated in producing her first film, PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL (winner, Best Documentary Feature, Tribeca Film Festival 2008). She then executive produced the five-part PBS series, WOMEN, WAR & PEACE. Since then, she has produced numerous acclaimed social-issue films, including 1971, CITIZEN KOCH, FAMILY AFFAIR, HOT GIRLS WANTED, THE INVISIBLE WAR (2012 Academy Award Nominee, Best Documentary Feature), RETURN and SUN COME UP (2011 Academy Award Nominee, Best Documentary Short). Upcoming projects include THE TRIALS OF SPRING, and her directorial debut, THE ARMOR OF LIGHT. Disney is also the founder and president of Peace is Loud, a nonprofit organization that seeks to identify and support women who are stepping up for peace and resisting violence in their communities.

  • KATHLEEN HUGHES
    Producer and Co-Director

    Kathleen Hughes is a producer, director and writer, as well as co-founder of the documentary film company Okapi Productions. Among Kathleen’s many films is TWO AMERICAN FAMILIES, a 21-year-long look at downward mobility, which recently appeared on PBS’s Frontline. Her 90-minute Bill Moyers special BUYING THE WAR, detailing the media’s failure to examine the Bush Administration’s case for invading Iraq, was called “one of the most gripping and important pieces of broadcast journalism this year” by the Washington Post. From 2008-11 Kathleen was Executive Producer of public television’s multi-platform series BLUEPRINT AMERICA, which told stories about America’s crumbling infrastructure. Kathleen’s other work has appeared on PBS’s NOW and Wide Angle, NBC’s TV Nation and ABC News’ Turning Point, as well as many Bill Moyers specials. Her work has received numerous awards including two national Emmys, a New York Emmy, the duPont-Columbia Gold Baton, the Gracie Award, the Sidney Hillman Prize, the Dateline Club’s Society of Professional Journalists’ First Amendment Award, the Harry Chapin Media Award, the Christopher Award, and honorable mention for the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.

  • GINI RETICKER
    Executive Producer

    Gini Reticker has been directing and producing award-winning independent documentary films for over 20 years.  Reticker directed PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL (2008), the inspiring story of Liberian women whose actions helped bring an end to a brutal civil war—it premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival where it won the Audience Award.  She produced the Academy Award-nominated short ASYLUM (2003), the story of a Ghanaian woman who fled female genital mutilation to seek political asylum in the U.S; that same year she produced A DECADE UNDER THE INFLUENCE that looks at the heyday of 1970s filmmakers, was nominated for an Emmy, and garnered the National Review Board Award for Best Documentary. She received an Emmy for LADIES FIRST (2004), the story of women rebuilding post-genocide Rwanda.  Her first film, THE HEART OF THE MATTER (1994), a groundbreaking film about women and AIDS, won the Sundance Freedom of Expression Award.  She was a creator and executive producer of the PBS series WOMEN, WAR & PEACE (2011), recipient of the Overseas Press Club’s Edward R. Murrow Award, as well as The Academy of Television Honors Award. Reticker has also coproduced or executive produced such notable films as THE BETRAYAL (NERAKHOON), nominated for both an Academy Award and an Independent Spirit Award, 1971, ALIAS RUBY BLADE, CITIZEN KOCH, HOT GIRLS WANTED, and SHE’S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE’S ANGRY.

  • ANDREW FREDERICKS
    Editor

    Andrew Fredericks has been a documentary filmmaker for over twenty years, working as a producer, director, editor and cinematographer. He has collaborated with journalist Bill Moyers on a host of documentaries and conversations, including LIVING ON THE EDGE, SURVIVING THE GOOD TIMES, FREE SPEECH FOR SALE, and AMERICA’S FIRST RIVER. His body of work also includes IF YOU KNEW SOUSA, AMERICA IN THE FORTIES, and FAT with pioneering filmmaker Tom Spain. His work has appeared on ABC, NBC, PBS, National Geographic, and Bravo. He directed and edited MONEY DRIVEN MEDICINE with Alex Gibney. More recently, Andrew edited the award winning film, I CAME TO TESTIFY, as part of the acclaimed PBS series, WOMEN, WAR & PEACE.

  • EVA ANISKO
    Producer

    Eva Anisko is an award-winning producer with experience spearheading documentaries, news and public affairs programming, and multi-platform initiatives, including PBS series: BLUEPRINT AMERICA, Emmy Award-winning EXPOSÉ: AMERICA’S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS and the sustainable design series, DESIGN: e2, narrated by Brad Pitt. Anisko’s more recent films include: SKY BURIAL (2013 Napa Valley Film Festival, Best Short Documentary), BUFFALO RETURNS, Emmy nominated IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MARCO POLO, and A PLACE IN TIME, an experimental documentary directed by Angelina Jolie, which premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. With subjects ranging from pedophilia in the Boy Scouts to the working conditions of illegal immigrants in the poultry industry, her work explores cultural, political and historical content by focusing on the human experience. Anisko’s work has appeared on PBS, including programming strands Bill Moyers Journal, NOW, NewsHour, Great Performances and NPR, the Sundance Channel, BBC, ARTE France, and NHK Japan.

  • JEFF HUTCHENS
    Cinematographer

    With parents in the foreign service, Jeff spent his childhood living throughout the U.S., China, South Africa, and the Philippines. He has filmed across six continents, running into grizzly bears, lava floes, Komodo dragons and all manner of corrupt officials. From his work on the surrealism of life in China, to documenting underground epidemics in the jungles of central Africa, to photographing polar bears in the Arctic Circle, he captures images that convey transcendent moods and subtle beauty. He is based in Washington, D.C., where he can often be found rearranging letters trying to find a higher scoring Scrabble play.

  • PAUL BRILL
    Composer

    Paul Brill is a three-time Emmy award nominee who has scored some of the most celebrated documentary films of the past several years. Paul recently won the first-ever Best Music Award from the International Documentary Association for his score for the acclaimed film, BETTER THIS WORLD. He collaborated with Rock legends U2 on the HBO film, BURMA SOLDIER, composing a new string arrangement for an acoustic version of their classic song, WALK ON. He scored the hit documentary, JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK (IFC), the widely-acclaimed PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NY TIMES (Magnolia), as well as Christy Turlington Burns’ directorial debut, NO WOMAN, NO CRY (OWN), on which he collaborated with songwriter Martha Wainwright. Paul recently scored the landmark, Emmy, Peabody and DuPont Award-winning, 6 hour PBS documentary, THE AFRICAN AMERICANS: MANY RIVERS TO CROSS with noted historian Henry Louis Gates and additional musical contributions from Wynton Marsalis.

  • NATASHA LIVIA MOTTOLA
    Associate Editor

    Natasha Livia Mottola has been working in independent documentary 2008. She has collaborated as associate editor with Jennifer Fox on MY REINCARNATION, and Stanley Nelson on FREEDOM SUMMER, which was honored with a George Foster Peabody Award. Assistant editor work includes, KOCH, HARRY AND SNOWMAN, THE ABOLITIONISTS and the Sundance Documentary Story Edit Lab. She is a member of NYWIFT, a mentor at Reel Works teen filmmaking program in Brooklyn and has collaborated on murals with Groundswell. Her passion for personal documentaries and cultural preservation have inspired her to begin post production on her film, LA STORIA DI NONNA, about her family’s immigration experience from Italy to America.

  • STEPHANIE PALUMBO
    Archivist

    Stephanie Palumbo is an archival and story producer who began her career as a researcher for Michael Moore. Over the past decade, she has worked with filmmakers including Martin Scorsese, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, and Edet Belzberg, and has contributed to many award-winning documentary films and television series. Stephanie’s credits include Palme d’Or winner FAHRENHEIT 9/11, Academy Award nominees SICKO and TROUBLE THE WATER, Emmy Award winners NO DIRECTION HOME: BOB DYLAN and GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD, Emmy Award nominee OPRAH PRESENTS: MASTER CLASS, and CITIZEN KOCH. Most recently, she was archival producer and additional post supervisor on WATCHERS OF THE SKY, winner of two Sundance Film Festival awards. Stephanie is also a former assistant editor at O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE and a freelance writer published in THE BELIEVER and THE RUMPUS, among others.

  • ALEXANDER HYDE
    Production Assistant

    As a fledgling documentarian Alex has worked as production assistant, camera assistant, archival researcher and AP. He currently lives in London, UK where he is helping to manage the theatrical distribution of We Are Many, and is looking forward to his return to NYC in the fall. When he’s not out documenting the social issues of our time he enjoys drinking coffee, brewing beer, and trying to introduce his British friends to American-style cooking.

Privacy Policy

PURPLE MICKEY PRODUCTIONS PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: August 24, 2022.

1. Introduction and Overview.

This Privacy Policy describes how Purple Mickey Productions LLC (“Purple Mickey Productions,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) collects, uses, and shares information about you and applies to your use of any online service location that posts a link to this Privacy Policy and all features, content, and other services that we own, control and make available through such online service location (collectively, the “Service”). This Privacy Policy does not apply to our information collection activities outside of the Service (unless otherwise stated below or at the time of collection).

By using the Service, you agree to our Terms of Use and consent to our collection, use and disclosure practices, and other activities as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree and consent, discontinue use of the Service.

If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights and choices, please contact using the instructions set out in the “Contact Us” section. If you are a California resident or Nevada resident, please see the additional disclosures at the end of this Privacy Policy.

2. Information Collection.

A. Information You Provide.

We and our Service Providers (defined below) may collect information you provide directly via the Service, including when you sign-up for our mailing lists, purchase, view or interact with our content, or otherwise communicate or transact with us through the Service. The categories of information we collect, and have collected in the past 12 months, include:

    • Contact Data, including your first and last name, company name, and email address.
    • Content, including content within any messages you send to us (such as feedback and questions to customer support).

 

Where you purchase content through the Service, we use Service Providers to process your payment information, including credit or debit card information. We do not have access to or store your credit or debit card information.

You may choose to voluntarily submit other information to us that we have not requested, and in such instances, you are solely responsible for such information.

B. Information Collected Automatically.

In addition, we automatically collect information when you access or use the Service. The categories of information, we automatically collect, and have collected in the past 12 months, include:

  • Usage Data, including data about features you use, pages you visit, content you view and purchase, the time of day you browse, and referring/exit pages.
  • Device Data, including data about the type of device or browser you use, device identifiers such as IP address, browser type, operating system, data regarding network connected hardware, and internet service provider.

The types of tracking technologies we use to automatically collect information include:

  • Log Files, which are files that record events that occur in connection with your use of the Service.
  • Cookies, are small data files stored on a user’s device that act as a unique tag to identify your browser. We use two types of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies make it easier for you to navigate the Service and expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies help in understanding how you use the Service, and may remain on your device for extended periods of time, and may be controlled through your browser settings
  • Pixels, (also known as web beacons), which is code embedded in a website, video, email or ad that sends information about your use to a server. There are various types of pixels, including image pixels (which are small graphic images) and JavaScript pixels (which contains JavaScript code). When you access a website, video, email or ad that contains a pixel, the pixel may permit us or a separate entity to drop or read cookies on your browser. Pixels are used in combination with cookies to track activity by a particular browser on a particular device. Web beacons may be used to count the number of visitors to the Service, to monitor how users navigate the Service, and to count content views.

For further information on how we use tracking technologies, and your rights and choices regarding them, please see the “Tracking Technologies” section under the “Your Rights and Choices” section below.

C. Information from Other Sources.

We obtain information about you from other sources. The categories of sources from which we collect information and have collected from in the past 12 months, include social networks and partners that offer co-branded content. To the extent we combine such sourced information with information we have collected about you on the Service, we will treat the combined information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

3. Use of Information.

We collect and use information for business and commercial purposes in accordance with the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Our business purposes for collecting and using information, and for which we have collected and used information in the past 12 months, include to:

  • Manage and operate our Service, including financing and producing content such as nonfiction TV series and documentary films;
  • Respond to your comments, questions, and requests, and provide customer service;
  • Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, information regarding changes to our policies, and support and administrative messages;
  • Prevent and address fraud, breach of policies or terms, and threats or harm;
  • Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities;
  • Conduct research, including focus groups and surveys;
  • Improve the Service of other Purple Mickey Productions websites, applications, marketing efforts, products and services;
  • Conduct promotions, including verifying your eligibility and delivering prizes in connection with your entities.
  • Develop and send you advertising, direct marketing, and communications regarding our and other entities products, services, offers, promotions, rewards and events;
  • Fulfill any other purpose at your direction; and
  • With notice to you and your consent.

Notwithstanding the above, we may use information that does not identify you (including information that has been aggregated or de-identified) for any purpose except as prohibited by applicable law. For information on your rights and choices regarding how we use information about you, please see the “Your Rights and Choices” section below.

4. Sharing of Information.

We share information we collect in accordance with the practices described in this Privacy Policy. The categories of parties with whom we share information, and have shared information in the past 12 months, include:

  • Service Providers. We share information with our agents, vendors, consultants, and other service providers (collectively “Service Providers”) that process information on our behalf. Service Providers assist us with services such as payment processing, data analytics, marketing, advertising, website hosting, and technical support. These Service Providers are prohibited from using information for any purpose other than to provide this assistance, although we may permit them to use aggregate information which does not identify you or de-identified data for other purposes.
  • Partners. We share information with our partners in connection with offering co-branded content and services.
  • Promotions. Our promotions may be jointly sponsored or offered by other parties. When you voluntarily enter a promotion, we share information as set out in the official rules that govern the promotion as well as for administrative purposes and as required by law (e.g., on a winners list). By entering a promotion, you agree to the official rules that govern that promotion, and may, except where prohibited by applicable law, allow the sponsor and/or other entities to use your name, voice and/or likeness in advertising or marketing materials.
  • Security and Compelled Disclosure. We may share information to comply with the law or other legal process, and where required, in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. We also share information to protect the rights, property, life, health, security and safety of us, the Service, the individuals involved in our films, or any third party.
  • Merger or Acquisition. We may share information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any proposed or actual merger, purchase, sale or any other type of acquisition or business combination of all or any portion of our assets, or transfer of all or a portion of our business to another company.
  • Affiliates. We share information with our affiliates and related entities, including where they act as our service provider for their own internal purposes.
  • Facilitating Requests. We share information at your request.
  • Consent. We share information with notice to you and with your consent.

Without limiting the foregoing, in our sole discretion, we may share aggregated information which does not identify you or de-identified information about you except as prohibited by applicable law. For information on your rights and choices regarding how we share information about you, please see the “Your Rights and Choices” section below.

5. Other Parties’ Services, Social and Video Features.

Our Service includes hyperlinks to websites, locations, platforms, or services operated by other parties. For example, we may link to video services, such as iTunes or Netflix, in order to view our films. These services are owned and operated by other parties which may use tracking technologies to independently collect information about you and may solicit information from you.

Certain functionalities on the Service permit interactions that you initiate between the Service and certain other services, such as social networks and video services (“Social and Video Features”). Examples of Social and Video Features include “liking” or “sharing” our content, watching embedded videos using other party’s video service technology, and otherwise connecting our Service to another party’s service. If you use Social and Video Features, information you post or provide access to may be publicly displayed on our Service or other party’s services that you use.

Similarly, if you post information on a website or social network that references our Service (e.g., by using a hashtag associated with Purple Mickey Productions, our films, TV shows or content in a tweet or status update), your post may be used on or in connection with our Service. Also, both Purple Mickey Productions and the social network may have access to certain information about you and your use of our Service and their online services.

The information collected and stored by other parties remains subject to their policies and practices. We are not responsible for and make no representations regarding the policies or privacy practices of any other parties and encourage you to familiarize yourself with and consult their privacy policies and terms of use.

6. Your Rights and Choices.

A. Accessing Your Information.

You may access, update, or remove certain information that you voluntarily submitted to us when you made a purchase through the Service by sending an e-mail to us at [email protected]. We may require additional information from you to allow us to confirm your identity. Please note that we will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

B. Tracking Technologies.

  • Cookies. Regular cookies may generally be disabled or removed by tools available as part of most commercial browsers, and in some instances blocked in the future by selecting certain settings. Browsers offer different functionalities and options so you may need to set them separately.
  • Do Not Track. Your browser settings may allow you to automatically transmit a “Do Not Track” signal to online services you visit. Note, however, there is no industry consensus as to what website operators should do with regard to these signals. Accordingly, unless and until the law is interpreted to require us to do so, we do not monitor or take action with respect to “Do Not Track” signals or other mechanisms. For more information on “Do Not Track,” visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
  • Analytics. We use analytics services such as Google Analytics and other Service Providers to help Purple Mickey Productions analyze how you use the Service. You may exercise choices regarding the use of cookies from Google Analytics by going to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout or downloading the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. Purple Mickey Productions is not responsible for effectiveness of, or compliance with, any third-parties’ opt out options or programs or the accuracy of their statements regarding their programs.

Please be aware that if you disable or remove certain tracking technologies some parts of the Service may not function correctly.

C. E-mail Communications.

You can opt out of receiving certain promotional e-mails from us at any time by following the instructions as provided in e-mails to click on the unsubscribe link or by sending an e-mail to us here with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject field of the e-mail. Please note that your opt out is limited to the e-mail address used and will not affect subsequent subscriptions or non-promotional communications, such as those about your account, transactions, servicing, or Purple Mickey Productions’ ongoing business relations.

7. Children.

The Service is intended for a general audience and not directed to children under 13 years of age. Purple Mickey Productions does not knowingly collect personal information as defined by the U.S. Children’s Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) in a manner that is not permitted by COPPA. If you are a parent or guardian and believe Purple Mickey Productions has collected such information in a manner not permitted by COPPA, please e-mail us here or send us a letter to Purple Mickey Productions LLC, 25 East 21st Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10010 (Attention: Legal), and we will remove such data to the extent required by COPPA. We do not knowingly “sell,” as that term is defined under the CCPA, the personal information of minors under 16 years old who are California residents.

8. Data Security.

We take reasonable measures to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. Nevertheless, transmission via the internet is not completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of your information collected through our Service.

9. International Transfer.

We are based in the U.S. and the information we and our Service Providers collect is governed by U.S. law. If you are accessing the Service from outside of the U.S., please be aware that information collected through the Service may be transferred to, processed, stored and used in the U.S. and other jurisdictions. Data protection laws in the U.S. and other jurisdictions may be different from those of your country of residence. Your use of the Service or provision of any information therefore constitutes your consent to the transfer to and from, processing, usage, sharing and storage of your information, in the U.S. and other jurisdictions as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

10. Changes to this Privacy Policy.

We reserve the right to revise and reissue this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting of the revised Privacy Policy. Your continued use of our Service indicates your consent to the Privacy Policy then posted. If the changes are material, we may provide you additional notice, to your e-mail address.

11. Contact Us.

If you have any questions or comments about this policy, please e-mail us here or send us a letter to Purple Mickey Productions LLC, 25 East 21st Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10010 (Attention: Legal).

12. Additional Disclosures for California Residents.

To the extent Purple Mickey Productions is subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), these additional disclosures apply only to California residents covered by the CCPA.

A. Notice of Collection.

In the past 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information enumerated in the CCPA:

  • Identifiers, including name, email address, and online identifiers (such as IP address).
  • Commercial or transactions information, including trailers watched and records of content purchased.
  • Internet activity, including browsing history, search history, and interactions with a website, video, email, or advertisement.

For further details on information we collect, including the sources from which we receive information, review the “Information Collection” section above. We collect and use these categories of personal information for the business purposes described in the “Use of Information” section above, including to manage our Service.

We do not sell information as the term “sell” is traditionally understood.

B. Right to Know and Delete.

You have the right to delete personal information we have collected about you. You also have the right to know certain details about our data practices in the past 12 months. In particular, you may request the following from us:

  • The categories of personal information we have collected about you;
  • The categories of sources from which the personal information was collected;
  • The categories of personal information about you we disclosed for a business purpose or sold;
  • The categories of third parties to whom the personal information was disclosed for a business purpose or sold;
  • The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the personal information; and
  • The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.

To exercise any of these rights, please submit a request through our Online Form. In the request, please specify which right you are seeking to exercise and the scope of the request. We will confirm receipt of your request within 10 days. We may require specific information from you to help us verify your identity and process your request. If we are unable to verify your identity, we may deny your requests to know or delete.

C. Authorized Agent.

You can designate an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf. However, we will require written proof of the agent’s permission to do so and verify your identity directly.

D. Right to Non-Discrimination.

You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of any your rights.

E. Shine the Light.

California’s “Shine the Light” law permits customers in California to request (i) a list of the categories of personal information disclosed by us to third parties during the immediately preceding calendar year for those third parties’ own direct marketing purposes; and (ii) a list of the categories of third parties to whom we disclosed such information. To exercise your rights and make a request, please e-mail us here or send us a letter to Purple Mickey Productions LLC, 25 East 21st Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10010 (Attention: Legal). Requests must include “California Shine the Light Request” in the first line of the description and include your name, street address, city, state, and ZIP code. Please note that Purple Mickey Productions is not required to respond to requests made by means other than through the provided e-mail address or mail address.

13. Additional Disclosures for Nevada Residents.

Nevada law (NRS 603A.340) requires each business to establish a designated request address where Nevada consumers may submit requests directing the business not to sell certain kinds of personal information that the business has collected or will collect about the consumer. A sale under Nevada law is the exchange of personal information for monetary consideration by the business to a third party for the third party to license or sell the personal information to other third parties. If you are a Nevada consumer and wish to submit a request relating to our compliance with Nevada law, please contact us as at [email protected].


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