Meet the creative team
Executive Producer
Daniel Karslake
Daniel Karslake is an award-winning director and producer. His 2007 film “For the Bible Tells Me So” was on the 79th Oscars Shortlist for Best Documentary, won a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary and was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival. His 2019 film “For They Know Not What They Do” follows four religious families with LGBTQ children, and was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at Tribeca Film Festival.
Executive Producers
Teresa & Todd Silver
Teresa & Todd Silver became allies when their son, raised in their evangelical household, came out in 2014. Supporting ministries for decades they naturally became advocates for LGBTQ+ individuals and supportive organizations. They’ve been producers in other films including the recent documentary “For they know not what they do” and feature length movie “Blue Like Jazz”.
Director
Sharon “Rocky” Roggio
Rocky Roggio is an independent filmmaker and production designer (credits include House of Cards, Red Dawn). Rocky is also a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, and moved out of her home after coming out to her conservative, religious parents. Rocky’s father, Sal Roggio, is a non-affirming pastor and preaches that the LGBTQIA+ lifestyle is sinful.
Original Score
Mary Lambert
Mary Lambert is a Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, author and Christain LGBTQIA+ activist. She is best known for her work on Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ marriage equality anthem “Same Love,” which earned a Grammy nomination for Song of the Year. Her 2014 single “Secrets” peaked at no. 1 on Billboard’s Dance chart and was certified RIAA Gold in 2015.
Drawing from her strict Pentecostal upbringing and compassionate nature, Mary is uniquely qualified to address the fundamental Christian right with a grace few are capable of. Lambert will share her benevolent perspective and strenuous journey with us; as well as bless the film with her exquisite talents as music supervisor and composer.
Executive Producers
Jun and Drew Young
Jun is a passionate advocate for the spiritual flourishing of those in the LGBTQ+ community. In 2020, he founded Beloved Arise, the first national organization dedicated to celebrating and empowering LGBTQ+ youth of faith. Jun also serves as the CEO of ZUM Communications, an award-winning digital storytelling and communications agency in Seattle. With a Doctorate in Communication from the University of Washington and more than 20 years of experience in corporate communications, Jun was named by the Puget Sound Business Journal as one of the region’s most notable entrepreneurs. He is active on LinkedIn and Instagram and hosts the bi-weekly podcast “A Change Mindset.” Born and raised in the Philippines, Jun loves to travel with his husband and meet new people from around the world.
Writer, Producer
Jena Serbu
Jena Serbu is an interdisciplinary creative. She is an award-winning writer / director with a strong foundation in production design. She is most well known for her feature film, Smartass, starring Joey King and featuring other incredible talents such as Trevante Rhodes, Marc Menchaca and Yvette Nicole Brown, to name a few. Her latest collaboration, as writer/producer, with Director, Sharon “Rocky” Roggio has brought her into the rewarding social justice world of documentary filmmaking. “1946, The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture” could not align more perfectly with her passion for creative expression and individual freedom. She is beyond lucky and grateful to be a part of this incredible project.
Production
Acowsay
Acowsay Film Company is a production studio with an intentionally crafted creative team that is capable of developing high end, purposed video content. They use video to tell stories about people for brands and organizations looking to align their values with current and prospective customers, creating original content that is delivered on a variety of channels, in a multitude of formats. Acowsay will be overseeing the offline edit for the 1946 film project.
Co-Producer, Cinematographer
Tyler Eichorst
Tyler Eichorst(he/him) is the founder and director at acowsay film company. A Twin Cities based production company, acowsay leads with an intentionally crafted creative team that is capable of developing high-end, purposed video content. They use video to tell stories about people for brands and organizations looking to align their values with current and prospective audiences, creating original content that is delivered on a variety of channels, in a multitude of formats. Tyler and members of his team were honored to work with Rocky and the many others that committed their time, energy and passions to bring her vision to the screen.
Lawyer
Jason Turner
Jason has worked extensively within the entertainment industry since the mid 1990s. His experience spans nearly all aspects of the music industry including artist management, record label promotions and operations, performing as a professional musician, and representing various artists, music industry executives, professional athletes and sports teams in his capacity as a lawyer with KTAG Law.
Executive Producer
Sabrina Merage Naim
Sabrina Merage Naim is a philanthropist working toward making the world a more equitable and unified place. She founded the Sabrina Merage Foundation in 2008 with the intention of building bridges between diverse societies. Since then, Sabrina has focused much of her philanthropic efforts on the intersection of inclusivity and innovation, investing in opportunities for individuals from diverse backgrounds to connect, teach, and learn from one another. In 2020, Sabrina founded Evoke Media as a subsidiary of SMF to create connection, cultivate conversation, and drive social impact through the power of storytelling. In addition to 1946, she is an Executive Producer on The 8th, The Gig is Up, and Refuge. Particularly passionate about what happens after the credits roll, Sabrina is committed to working with filmmakers and their teams on mission-driven impact campaigns.
Editor
Jill Woodward
Jill Woodward is a documentary editor and filmmaker. Recent projects include 1946: The Mistranslation that Shifted Culture, premiering at DOC-NYC’s 2022 festival, and a five-part series, Breaking Life, for the Olympics Channel. She edited the feature documentary, This Is Paris, about Paris Hilton, selected for the Tribeca Film Festival in 2020.
She also worked on the documentary Get Me Roger Stone, a television documentary China Queer, and the film Divide & Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2017.
She recently wrapped editing on an unannounced doc series for the Peacock Network, directed by Alexandra Dean.
Cinematographer
Collier Landry
While most hosts of true crime podcasts simply discuss murders that fascinate them, Collier Landry has actually lived through one. Collier is the host of the Moving Past Murder podcast, and the creator and subject of Barbara Kopple’s A Murder in Mansfield.
As a formally trained musician and photographer, Collier segued into filmmaking and podcasting as a means to creatively express and deal with his own traumatic childhood story - the premeditated murder of his mother Noreen by his father, Dr. John Boyle, Jr. - and to give a narrative voice to others in similar circumstances.
Collier's passionate and robust message of human resilience, hope, and personal triumph over adversity has inspired audiences across the globe. His work has been featured in Newsweek, VICE, The New York Post, Variety, Esquire, USA Today, The Daily Mail, and The Independent. Collier is a TEDx Speaker, best-selling author, and a featured guest on the Dr. Phil show.
He resides in Santa Monica, CA. Link to all things Collier: www.collierlandry.com/links
Meet the researchers
Researcher, Graduate of Talbot Seminary
Ed Oxford
Ed Oxford is a gay Christian, a graduate of Talbot School of Theology, and a researcher in how the Bible has been weaponized against LGBTQ people.
International Speaker, Author, Educator, Researcher
Kathy Baldock
Kathy Baldock, author, LGBTQ advocate, international speaker and educator, and Executive Director of CanyonWalker Connections, is a leading expert on LGBTQ issues in the United States, especially dealing with historical and current discrimination faced from the socially conservative Christian church and political sector.
Scholar
David Potter
Dr. David Potter is the Francis W. Kelsey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Roman History and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan while he teaches a wide range of courses in Greek and Latin, as well as translation. His research area focuses on the interaction between people and institutions.
Scholar
Trevor W. Thompson
Trevor W. Thompson is a Senior Acquisitions Editor at Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. He has taught at the University of Chicago Divinity School (as lecturer of Koine Greek), at Abilene Christian University, and now at Calvin University. Trevor is the co-translator of Galen's On the Avoidance of Grief and author of over seventy encyclopedia articles. He is a co-editor of two volumes: Ephesos as a Religious Center Under the Principate and Christian Body, Christian Self: Concepts of Early Christian Personhood.
Voices of 1946
Reverend Davis S.
Reverend Davis S. is the author of a recently-discovered letter, written in 1959 to the RSV translation committee, challenging the introduction of the word "homosexual" into the Bible. Because of David’s letter, the committee admitted that the RSV translation was wrong—leading to a change in a later version of the RSV to the more generic phrase “sexual perverts” rather than a specific condemnation of gay people. He shares his story publicly at The Reformation Project, November 2019.
Reverend Dr. Anderson
Rev. Dr. Cheryl B. Anderson is a professor of Hebrew Bible / The Old Testament at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary. She received her B.A at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass, her Juris Doctorate at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, her master’s in divinity at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington D.C., and her PhD from Vanderbilt University in Nashville Tennessee. Her academic papers include such titles as, Ancient Laws and Contemporary Controversies: The Need For Inclusive Biblical Interpretation and Reconsidering Theological Education in an Age of HIV and AIDS: Shifting Away From the Elite Towards the Marginalized.
Rabbi Greenberg
Rabbi Steven Greenberg received his B.A in philosophy from Yeshiva University and his rabbinical ordination from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Steve is the first openly gay Orthodox Rabbi and a founder of the Jerusalem Open House, the Holy City’s lgbt community center. In 2004 Rabbi Greenberg published his book, Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition (University of Wisconsin Press). In his book, Greenberg presents readers with surprising biblical interpretations of the creation story, the destruction of Sodom, and the condemnatory verses of Leviticus.
Reverend Dr. Parker
Rev. Dr. Angela N. Parker is an assistant professor of New Testament and Greek at McAfee. She received her B.A in religion and philosophy from Shaw University, M.T.S from Duke Divinity School, and her Ph.D in Bible, culture, and hermeneutics from Chicago Theological Seminary. Author of two works, If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority as well as Bodies, Violence, & Emotions: A Womanist Study of the Gospel of Mark.