OUT HERE
Director
Lisa Klein
Lisa Klein is an award-winning director and writer dedicated to crafting engaging documentary films on social justice issues. In addition to OUT HERE, Her current projects include the documentary LIVING WIDE OPEN now in production, and an untitled project on child advocacy and early childhood development. She is the director of THE S WORD (2017) which explores suicide through the emotional stories of attempt and loss survivors, and co-director of OF TWO MINDS (2012), a journey into the lives of remarkable people living, struggling and triumphing with bipolar disorder. Both documentaries received the prestigious SAMHSA Voice Award, the most significant award for mental health filmmaking. In addition, she is a published author, and speaks at universities and organizations around the world, raising awareness about mental health issues. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and received an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California. Visit Lisa’s IMDB page.
PRODUCER
Leslie Silver, Ph.D.
Leslie Silver is a clinical psychologist who began working with the unhoused more than thirty years ago as a social worker in New York City and San Francisco. Leslie witnessed the struggles of people experiencing homelessness – and the grossly insufficient services to help them—from a unique vantage point. The homelessness crisis has grown exponentially in the last 30 years, and Leslie believes that the key to solving this crisis lies in understanding the individual stories of the people experiencing it. For Leslie, OUT HERE is an homage to all the social service workers she has met and worked alongside over the years. Leslie has assembled a fantastic team to help her use the power of film to artfully tell these stories.
Leslie received her bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley and a PhD in clinical psychology from Alliant International University in 1996. She has worked in a variety of clinical settings, and supervised and taught clinical theory to psychiatry students in training. She currently has a private practice in Northern California.
Producer, Supervising editor
Doug Blush
Doug Blush is an award-winning director, producer, editor, writer and cinematographer whose work includes over 200 feature and television projects. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as well as the American Cinema Editors (ACE). Credits include, as Executive Producer, the Critic’s Choice and Peabody Award-winning MR SOUL! (2020), as well as a number of Academy Award-winning documentaries: THE ELEPHANT WHISPERERS (2023), PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE (2019), ICARUS (2018), and, as supervising editor, 20 FEET FROM STARDOM (2013). Current projects include co-directing the documentary film LOS LOBOS NATIVE SONS, now in production and due for a 2025 release. He is also a longtime film educator, teaching classes and seminars at USC, UCLA, Syracuse University and the YoungArts Foundation in Miami, as well as exchanges and panels in Indonesia, Brazil, New Zealand, Armenia, Malaysia, Nigeria, China, Latvia, The Netherlands and more. Visit Doug’s IMDB page.
Director of Photography
Lou Douros
Lou Douros is an award-winning, Emmy-nominated documentary producer and director who captures smart, strong narratives with cinematic clarity including IN THE WAKE OF GIANTS (2012). He uses everything in his toolbox from camera, light, lens, and design to shorten the distance between audience and story. Lou connects with his subjects on camera to ensure their authenticity on screen. Visit Lou's IMDB page.
Cinematographer
Isiah Hale
Isiah Hale is a cinematographer and editor from Davis, California. He has worked in videography, editing and production for a diverse range of clients including the Sacramento Kings, Pac-12 Sports, Sacramento Republic FC, Bogle Wine and Eskaton, head videographer and editor at Douglas Taylor Co., and as a production manager for Sacramento Educational Cable Consortium. Isaiah is in pre-production for a limited series about Lee Harvey Oswald. He currently works as the director of creative video in the athletics department at Stanford University. Isiah has been working as a cinematographer for OUT HERE since 2017.
Editor
Josh Bayer
Josh is a writer, director, editor and cinematographer from West Bloomfield, Michigan. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 2011, wrote and directed an award-winning short film for Super Soaker in 2012, and then migrated to Los Angeles, where he has filmed and edited a steady slew of documentaries and narrative films. His recent credits include 2020 SXSW selection CONSOLE WARS (2020), GAMESTOP: RISE OF THE PLAYERS (2022), ROCK CAMP (2021), and THE S WORD (2017). His short films have appeared in festivals nationwide. He now resides in Chicago where he continues to direct, edit and film documentaries.
Assistant Producer
and Advisor
Kristina Calderon
Kristina Calderon brings the perspective of someone who was previously unsheltered to the OUT HERE team. Kristina was unsheltered after she escaped domestic violence with her two children. Kristina has been housed and working for the California State Assembly for the last six years. She currently works for Assembly Member Carlos Villapudua in the California State Capitol. Kristina helps the NO HOME HERE team make contacts with unsheltered individuals and provides consultation to help the film team understand the perspective of being unhoused. Kristina spends her free time working as an ambassador to unsheltered women and children and volunteering to help foster youth, survivors of domestic violence, and victims of human trafficking. She hopes to run for Sacramento City Council in the future.
Production
Coordinator
Patricia Harris-DiLeva
Pat Harris-DiLeva has over 20 years of event management experience, including stints as Promotions Director for the Los Angeles Marathon, Project Director of Perelman, Pioneer & Company, a Los Angeles-based event management firm that specializes in sports and entertainment, and Senior Director of Media Operations for the 2015 Special Olympics World Games.