film team
PATRICK CONE
Patrick Cone is an award-winning filmmaker and founder of C1 Entertainment, a Dallas-based production company.
Most recently, he won Best Cinematography at the 2025 Chicago Indie Film Festival for Tarik Shah: Don’t Play Like Them. His 2021 short South was an official selection at Slamdance and won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Short at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival.
His work has been featured on The Wall Street Journal Video, The Documentary Channel, Sproutflix, the Today Show, and film festivals across the U.S.
ROBERT W. FIESELER
Robert W. Fieseler is an award-winning journalist and author, named National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Journalist of the Year and a recipient of the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. His debut book Tinderbox won seven awards, including the Edgar Award.
His second book, American Scare, was named a Best Book of 2025 by Kirkus and called a “masterwork” by ALA Booklist.
A Naperville native and Columbia Journalism School co-valedictorian, he is pursuing a PhD in History at Tulane and lives in New Orleans with his husband.
BENJAMIN MOY
Benjamin Moy is an award-winning composer and producer specializing in film and media scoring. His work focuses on the emotional power of the marriage between image and sound.
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He won Best Film Score at the 2023 Burbank International Film Festival for Reason To Believe, and his music can also be heard in For Jennifer and numerous independent projects.
He lives and works in Indianapolis.
