Creative Team

FRITZ MUELLER | director | director of photography

Fritz has been chasing stories across Canada’s North for over two decades, focusing his lens on a wide range of subjects from migrating caribou to national parks to indigenous communities. He came to the Yukon as a research scientist working on his graduate thesis, followed by a decade working in government, and the next decade as a photographer and filmmaker. In recent years his attention has turned to the remarkable lives of northerners, as captured in the award-winning documentary Journeys to Adaka, followed by Aurora Love, and now Voices Across the Water. His next film, Smala, is about sheep farmers in Iceland. Fritz Mueller @fmuellervisuals • Instagram

TERESA EARLE | producer | writer 

Teresa’s career as a creative professional and cultural entrepreneur led her to filmmaking, where story, creativity, business and teamwork converge. She also teaches writing and has created and produced videos, books, magazines, websites, exhibits and several documentaries. Teresa produced, wrote and edited Journeys to Adäka and Aurora Love. Voices Across the Water is her third film, and she is in production on two new documentaries. Teresa is president of Screen Production Yukon Association. Sagafish Media @sagafishmedia • Instagram 

SHIRLEY VERCUYSSE | producer

Shirley Vercruysse is the Executive Producer of the National Film Board of Canada’s BC & Yukon Studio, where she leads the team producing documentary and animation projects. The studio’s new releases include the feature-length documentaries The Magnitude of All Things and Sovereign Soil, along with recent releases The Whale and the Raven, Because We Are Girls and the musical documentary The Road Forward. Short works include the documentaries Now Is the Time and Highway to Heaven, the animated films Old Dog and The Zoo, as well as the Webby Award-winning docu-series True North: Inside the Rise of Toronto Basketball.

GRAHAM WITHERS | editor

The greatest gift of being a documentary editor is spending everyday at the intersection of deeply personal and excitingly universal stories. On features and series, Graham has crafted engaging, entertaining and challenging stories of all stripes.  He holds the trust of directors to tell a compelling tale and the trust of their subjects to tell an honest one dear.  He was nominated for a CSA for best editing in a feature documentary in 2019 for Transformer, a 2019 CCE award for best editing in a web series for True North: Inside the Rise of Toronto Basketball and a 2018 CSA for best editing in a factual series for Viceland’s Payday. Graham Withers @GDubya3 • Twitter

JORDY WALKER | composer

Jordy is a versatile composer, producer, sound artist, sound designer and multi-instrumentalist. His roots are in jazz and classical guitar, and his approach is both inventive and traditional. His works have been featured in dance and theatrical productions, documentaries and short films for the likes of CBC, NFB, Discovery Channel and HIFI. Jordy has performed and/or recorded with Mary Margeret O’Hara, Christine Fellows, Veda Hille, Oliver Schroer, Tanya Tagaq, Michael Feuerstack, Richard Reed Parry, Little Scream and others. A longtime  creative collaborator of Sagafish Media, Jordy scored Journeys to Adaka, Aurora Love and Voices Across the Water. Jordy Walker @jordywalkr • Instagram