David Wulzen
Co-Director/Producer
David is an Emmy nominated freelance film editor and veteran producer who has been working in non-fiction film for over 15 years. Previously, David was a Producer at Vulcan Productions where he shepherded feature documentaries and television programming from development to distribution. Titles include the Sundance-award winning film, The Reason I Jump, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, Anonymous Sister, The Cold Blue, and USS Indianapolis: The Final Chapter, among others. Since leaving Vulcan Productions, David has returned to his creative roots as an editor, helping bring non-fiction stories to life for clients like Microsoft, Gates Notes, Breakthrough Energy, UCLA, Crosscut/KCTS 9, Boyer Children’s Clinic, Goodwin Connections, The National Eczema Association, and more.
Above The Bamboo Room is David’s feature documentary directorial debut.
Monica Galarneau
Co-director/Producer
Monica Galarneau is a seasoned producer and director with a strong background in corporate broadcast and theatrical works. Monica has produced, directed, and written content for clients such as Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Starbucks, the NHL, The Boys and Girls Club and more. She currently is working to develop the post pandemic hybrid event space with clients, merging content with technology.
As a hobbyist musician, bringing this story to life has been a powerful experience. Above The Bamboo Room is Monica’s first feature film.
Terri Weagant
Producer
Terri is an award-winning actor, writer, director, producer and documentary filmmaker. She has worked with such theatre companies as Play On! Shakespeare, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Urbanite Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, ACT Theatre, 14/48 Projects, Book It Repertory Theatre, Consolidated Works, CHAC, Balagan Theatre, Harlequin Productions and the Radial Theatre Project. She has performed in many parts of the US, Canada, Australia and the Czech Republic. In film and TV, she was recently featured in an episode of "Mozart in the Jungle" on Amazon, and in the award-winning short film "Big Boy."
She received her BFA in Acting from Cornish College of the Arts, and studied at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic, as well as the William Esper Studio in NYC. She has served on the faculty at Cornish College of the Arts and NYU Playwrights Horizons Theatre Program.
Above the Bamboo Room is her first feature documentary.
Kim Nyhous
Executive Producer
Kim Nyhous is an Emmy award winning documentary film, television, and digital production executive with over 16 years of experience in the entertainment industry. She recently founded Frog & Beetle Media to create storytelling that helps humanity heal. Before that she was the Head of Business Affairs, Production Management and Operations at Vulcan Productions, where she managed a wide range of critically acclaimed, impact-based documentary feature films and TV series.
She served as Executive in Charge of the 2022 Academy Award winning feature documentary Summer of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised). She also managed the 2022 Oscar nominated documentary short Lead Me Home (Netflix) for Vulcan Productions. Other Oscar nominated films include the documentary short film Hunger Ward in 2020 (MTV Docs), as well as the Oscar nominated and Emmy award winning documentary short Body Team 12 (HBO) in 2016. Other notable projects include Master of Light (HBO), Youth v Gov (Netflix), The Reason I Jump (Sundance World Cinema Audience Award Winner, Netflix), Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (American Masters PBS), The Cold Blue (HBO), The Ivory Game (short listed for Oscar, Netflix), Ocean Warriors & Chasing the Thunder (Discovery), and We The Economy and We The Voters (digital short film series).
She has worked with blue chip filmmakers and production companies across the world, and her programs have been featured on all major platforms, across genre and format. Prior to working at Vulcan, Nyhous worked as a producer on a variety of reality-based programs at Screaming Flea Productions, including the Emmy nominated series Hoarders and the Emmy nominated home design show Sell This House. She began her career at KPBS Television and FM Radio in San Diego. She worked for both NPR and PBS, where she won her first Emmy in 2008.
Sandy Jeglum
Editor
Sandy Jeglum has over a decade of experience editing unscripted short and feature-length documentaries. She started her editing career as the assistant editor of the award-winning feature-length documentary CRAZYWISE (Seattle International Film Festival, Mountainfilm) and the editor of the award-winning feature-length documentary Headhunt Revisited (Hawaii International Film Festival, LA Femme International Film Festival).
Short documentary credits include Concerning Contraception (Cascadia International Women’s Film Festival), Artful Ashes, and award-winning Reimagining Freedom West (San Francisco Black Film Festival, Better Cities Film Festival). Sandy’s latest feature-length documentary is Take Hands (Northwest Folklife, Friday Harbor Film Festival). Currently in post-production are the feature-length documentary Above the Bamboo Room and Life After Life (working title).
Sandy holds a Master's with Distinction in Documentary Production from the University of the West of England.