Keith Maitland

Producer, Director, Editor

Maitland’s interest in human perception, coupled with a desire to connect with teens on a quest for independence, led him to devote four years to creating The Eyes of Me.

After college at the University of Texas, Keith Maitland was chosen to participate in the Director's Guild of America Trainee Program in NYC. Upon completion of the 2-year program, Maitland became one of the youngest members of the DGA, working alongside directors including Woody Allen, Janusz Kaminski, and Joel Schumacher and on NBC's Law & Order. While working as an assistant director, Maitland had the unique opportunity to learn the skills of production with unfettered access to the creative processes of narrative filmmaking. Working as an AD was challenging, but the job didn’t offer Maitland the opportunity to express himself or to get his hands dirty, shooting or editing.

In 2001, Keith Maitland created IllegalFilms, taking the lessons he learned in the narrative world and applying them to his own independent documentaries. Maitland’s first short film, The Grown-Up, won an Audience Award at the 2003 Santa Monica Film Festival. The Eyes of Me is Maitland’s first feature length film.

Patrick Floyd

Producer

An alumnus of Oglethorpe University, Patrick Floyd spent three years as a high school teacher working with at-risk youth in the Bronx and Brooklyn. Before becoming a teacher, Patrick worked as a sound mixer and as an Assistant Director on independent films in New York. Patrick’s experiences inside and outside the classroom drew him back to filmmaking, intent on sharing the stories of teens with the complexity that they deserve.

Jason Archer & Paul Beck

Animators

Jason Archer and Paul Beck created the distinctive rotoscopic animation for The Eyes of Me. Archer and Beck lead the animation team on Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly. For Scanner, the Austin-based artists honed the rotoscopic animation techniques they utilized while working on the animated feature Waking Life. The Eyes of Me is Archer and Beck’s first nonfiction work.

Sarah Wilson

Stills Photographer, Field Producer

A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Sarah Wilson is an award-winning documentary photographer. Sarah’s projects have received grants from the Texas Council for the Humanities, The University of Texas at Austin, The Cartwright Foundation, Daniel Rosenberg Foundation and the Trull Foundation. Her project Jasper, TX: The Healing of a Community in Crisis has shown in New York City and five cities in Texas. Wilson has expanded on her work with The Eyes of Me to create an ongoing photo project titled Blind Prom.