Eric McGinty
Director, WriterEric McGinty’s first feature, Wallabout, won the Best Narrative Feature Award at the 2015 Bushwick Film Festival and the Best Personal Narrative Award at the 2014 Manhattan Film Festival. In 2016, Wallabout played for a month at the venerable Paris art house, Cinéma Saint-André des Arts, where the esteemed French film magazine, Positif, gave it 4 stars. Eric’s previous credits include the short films The Mitten, and TransMission 1998, a documentary featuring painter Luke Gray. As a first assistant director, Eric often collaborated with French directors who were shooting films in the US, including Cédric Klapisch, Luc Besson, Olivier Nakache/Eric Toledano, and Rachid Bouchareb. Based in Brooklyn, Eric grew up in a bicultural environment, having been raised in Paris and Washington, D.C. by a French mother and an American father. He began his career in Paris working as an actor and stage manager in theater and modern dance. He attended the Sorbonne and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, concentrating his studies in film and literature.In Stockade, Eric also plays the role of Richard.

Anna Sang Park
Producer, Executive ProducerAnna Sang Park is the producer and executive producer of Stockade and the writer/director/producer of the award-winning short film trilogy The Cho Stories. Anna produced the feature film, Wallabout, that won Best Film at the Bushwick Film Festival and Best Personal Narrative Film at the Manhattan Film Festival. Wallabout had a theatrical release in Paris, France at Cinema Saint-André des Arts and is streaming on Amazon. Anna was the development-producer on the Emmy and Peabody award-winning The Loving Story. She produced & directed documentaries for TCG- Theatre Communications Group - Legacy Leaders of Color Video Project (LLCVP) highlighting groundbreaking theatre directors of color. Born in South Korea, Anna grew up in Seoul, then Philadelphia. She has an MFA in directing from Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, Brooklyn College and a BFA in film from Emerson College. Anna is a member of the Writers Guild of America, Producers Guild of America, Film Fatales, BGDM, Alliance of Women Directors and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Adam Vazquez
Producer, Associate EditorAdam Vazquez has built a career in digital content creation and film and documentary production. Since 2017, he has been a digital video content creator for the communications department at GLAAD, and the on-site editor for the GLAAD Media Awards. Adam co-created and co-produced the documentary series "Other Boys NYC," which explores the lives of fifty queer and trans men of color living in New York City. The series, known for its honest portrayal of their experiences, garnered significant attention and was featured in NBC News, Vice, and Time Out NYC. In addition, he produced the award-winning short film trilogy "The Cho Stories," which premiered at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival in 2021, where it notably won the VTeddy Audience Award for Best Short Film. Adam is from Rochester, NY, and holds a BFA in Film/Video from School of Visual Arts.

Lela Meadow-Conner
Executive ProducerLela Meadow-Conner is an Independent Exhibition Executive, Impact Curator and Creative Producer, and the Founder of mamafilm, which curates and produces bold, socially-conscious entertainment through a maternal gaze. Recent producing credits include the award-winning feature documentary Chasing Chasing Amy (Tribeca, BFI London, 2023), the 2024 Academy-qualifying/Vimeo Staff Pick narrative short Run Amok and the award-winning podcast, Feminist Foremothers. She has several projects in development including the feature-length version of Run Amok; the experimental documentary Monstrous Me, the video-first podcast series Green Tide Rising and the narrative feature The Spice Poet – with Priyanka Chopra’s Purple Pebble Pictures. She’s served on film juries including AFI and the NAACP Image Awards, is a frequent panelist for industry organizations including The Gotham, SXSW and Ghetto Film School and has been quoted as a trade expert in publications including the New York Times, Filmmaker Magazine, IndieWire and Box Office Pro.

Guy de Lancey
Director of PhotographyIn addition to his work as a cinematographer, Guy de Lancey is the associate director of the Movement Lab at Barnard College. He has over twenty years of experience in multiple forms of image and story making practice, having worked in film and theater as director, cinematographer, lighting and scenic designer, technical design consultant, and actor. Guy was awarded a collaborative research grant to attend Fabrica, the Benetton cross-disciplinary arts and communication research center in Italy under the directorship of Godfrey Reggio and Oliviero Toscani. A graduate of Rhodes University, he also studied creative and screen writing at NYU. Guy was featured in the Movement Lab's first artist interview, where he speaks about becoming a political refugee in response to South Africa's apartheid system.In Stockade, Guy also plays the role of Paul.

Nay Tabbara
EditorNay Tabbara is a Lebanese filmmaker based in New York, she received her MFA in Film at NYU Tisch School of the Arts — where she is also a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Film department. Before moving to New York, Nay built her on-set experience working as an assistant director on numerous award-winning pictures, most notably The Insult by Ziad Doueiri (2017 Academy Award nominee). Born and raised in Beirut, Nay's stories center around her upbringing, and are inspired by her experience as a Lebanese woman existing within a largely hybrid society. Her short film Frayed Roots premiered at the 2020 Raindance Film Festival and has toured the film festival circuit. She was a 2021 Sundance Uprise Grantee for her short film Ebb & Flow, which also received the Doha Film Institute Fall 2021 production grant and has won awards in 2024 at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Tallgrass International Film Festival, and the El Gouna Film Festival.

Alex Wakim
ComposerAlex Wakim grew up surrounded by Lebanese parties, orchestras, French albums by Legrand, the great scores of Desplat and Williams, and opportunities to perform plenty of classical and jazz piano. Alex’s unique musical tastes have led him to explore writing for the screen and the stage. Based in New York, Alex has worked on several independent media projects including Frayed Roots (2020), dir. Nay Tabbara; Kansas Theatre Works podcast, including an original podcast production of Macbeth (2020), dir. David Mackay, prod. Jennifer Vellenga; Not Only You (2019), producer Ngoc Vuong. In addition to his film scoring work, Alex has developed two successful shows: Dust and Ions, a concert experience based on his album, as well as An American In Beirut, a full-length musical. Alex has a Bachelor’s Degree in music theory and composition from Kansas State University and a Master’s in scoring for multimedia from New York University, where he won the 2020 NYU Film Scoring Award.

Sarah Bitar
(Ahlam)Sarah Bitar is a trilingual film and stage actor, fluent in English, Arabic and French. She is a valued member of the acting ensemble at the innovative Mercury Store located in Gowanus, Brooklyn. During her time there she has collaborated with directors such as Will Frears, Claudia Zelevansky, Manuel Ortiz, Tea Alagic, Will Davis, Britt Berke, Nicky Maggio, Maria P. Vila and others. She has often produced her own work in the US out of the commitment to express unique narratives from distant realms, and a Self shaped by the fusion of the foreign and the familiar. Born and raised in Lebanon, Sarah made the pivotal decision to relocate to New York City in 2016, driven by a desire to undergo classical and contemporary acting training at the Stella Adler Studio.Select film credits include: Stockade (dir: Eric McGinty; Veronique Films); Like Salt (dir: Darine Hotait; Cinephelia); Very Big Shot (dir; Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya; Kabreet Films). Theater: Head Travels / Shelter in Love (Ioanna Katsarou; Eclipses Theater Group NY); Glimpse (Shadi Ghaheri; Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); Hail Elisha (David Zayas Jr.; LAByrinth Theater Company). Love’s Labor’s Lost (Irvington Shakespeare Company). She was a recipient of the NYFA - City Artist Corps grant in 2021.

Bahar Beihaghi
(Zora)Bahar Beihaghi is a New York City based actress, born and raised in Tehran, Iran. She is a graduate of the Actors Studio Drama School, where she received her MFA in Acting and trained in the Strasberg Method. Besides Stockade, her recent film /TV credits include “Mahshid” in Reading Lolita in Tehran directed by Eran Riklis (which earned critical acclaim after winning the Special Jury Award for Female Cast and the Audience Award for Best Film at the 2024 Rome Film Festival), “Yelena” in Blue Bloods, "and Leyla" in Taste of Pomegranate. Bahar’s recent theater credits include "Salme" in Wish You Were Here by Sanaz Toossi at Yale Rep 2023, “Roya” in Do you know what it’s like to be me? and "Mrs. Smith" in The Bald Soprano.Before moving to the US, Bahar got her BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran, while simultaneously training in Le Coq at L’ECOLE POINT FIXE. Shortly after, she became a full-time member at Fanous-e-Honar-e-Pars Theater Company in Tehran. This led to her performances as “Ismene” at Theater Festival in Dion, Greece and “Medea” at Anis Gras, Paris.She is proud to be one of the co-founders of “Peydah”, the first Iranian & Iranian American Theater Company in New York City.Woman, Life, Freedom

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