About the Filmmakers

Jim Orr is a ten-time regional Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Photography and Lighting Direction and has over twenty-five years of experience as a cinematographer on a wide range of projects: feature films, television series, documentaries, reality television, and commercials. Orr recently wrapped the final (130^th) episode of the hit A&E show Duck Dynasty. He has shot hundreds of commercials, documentaries and TV episodes as well as 18 independent feature films. Recently he was Director of Photography for Alicia Keys’ directorial debut in filming “Lili”, part of a quintuplet of short films directed by high profile women for Sony Pictures’ project FIVE which was produced by Jennifer Aniston. Orr also teamed with Eva Longoria and Jessica Biel to film each of their directorial debuts with A Proper Send Off for Ms. Longoria and Sodales for Ms. Biel.

Jim Orr is a ten-time regional Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Photography and Lighting Direction and has over twenty-five years of experience as a cinematographer on a wide range of projects: feature films, television series, documentaries, reality television, and commercials. Orr recently wrapped the final (130^th) episode of the hit A&E show Duck Dynasty. He has shot hundreds of commercials, documentaries and TV episodes as well as 18 independent feature films. Recently he was Director of Photography for Alicia Keys’ directorial debut in filming “Lili”, part of a quintuplet of short films directed by high profile women for Sony Pictures’ project FIVE which was produced by Jennifer Aniston. Orr also teamed with Eva Longoria and Jessica Biel to film each of their directorial debuts with A Proper Send Off for Ms. Longoria and Sodales for Ms. Biel. 

Michael Bovee is an award-winning producer, director, and editor who has been producing documentaries, commercials, marketing and social media videos for over twenty-five years. His feature documentary, Liquid Stage: The Lure of Surfing about the essence and history of surfing, aired nationally on PBS, internationally on the Discovery Channel, and received a CINE Golden Eagle award as well as three regional Emmys. Most recently he was a producer for the film Signing Our Way to Freedom, a feature-length documentary on the Chicano musician and activist Ramon “Chunky” Sanchez, which won the Audience Award and the Frontera Feature Award at the 2018 San Diego Latino Film Festival. 

Larry Asakawa is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and former marine biologist. He worked as a University of California research diver for UC Santa Barbara studying fish populations, and at Scripps Institute of Oceanography studying abalone and sea urchins in southern California. After transitioning to filmmaking and working with KPBS on independent projects, Asakawa was the first filmmaker from San Diego to be trained at the PBS Producers Academy at WGBH in Boston. He has taught documentary filmmaking techniques at Pacific New Media in Honolulu and as a regular guest lecturer for the University of Hawaii Manoa.