Our Founder:
Dawn Mikkelson (Director/Producer):
Named to AV Multimedia Producer’s 2004 National “Top Producers Showcase”, Mikkelson is both an award-winning media producer and documentary filmmaker. From National PBS broadcasts to being selected as a Featured Video Podcast by iTunes, Mikkelson’s work in film and video has received international acclaim across broad delivery platforms. Mikkelson has completed two award-winning documentary films, Treading Water: a documentary and THIS obedience. THIS obedience won numerous festival awards and is currently being distributed for national PBS broadcast by American Public Television. Mikkelson recently completed her third documentary, Green Green Water, which premiered at the imagineNATIVE Film Festival in Toronto in late 2006. Mikkelson is in production on her fourth, The Red Tail.
A former television news reporter, Mikkelson formed her first company with business partner, Jamie A. Lee, at the age of 25. Aquaries Media, a full-service multimedia production company, served clients including Wilsons Leather, Target Corporation, Marshall Fields, the Muscular Dystrophy Association, American Public Television, and the Domestic Abuse Project. In 2006, Mikkelson started Emergence Pictures, to focus exclusively on video and film production.
