About — Red Queen Media

About

Red Queen Media (RQM) is an award-winning documentary and narrative production company founded by Emmy-winning director/producer Shannon Kring. RQM operates as a trusted cultural intermediary, producing work that moves between communities, institutions, broadcasters, brands, and global audiences. With content appearing on more than 75 networks worldwide and on every major streaming platform, RQM occupies a rare position of credibility across government, corporate, and humanitarian sectors.

The Team

The RQM collective understands that communities, institutions, and audiences struggle with how complex human truths are recorded, amplified, and understood. Too often, these stories are over-simplified. Distorted.
Excluded entirely.

RQM documents truth with integrity, and lived experience as record, not spectacle. This has earned us the trust of and access to all sides. Our work changes minds, opens hearts, and inspires social and policy change.

Founder & CEO

Shannon Kring

Multi-award-winning documentary filmmaker and humanitarian who has for the past two decades served as an emissary between those left vulnerable and voiceless by years of systematic oppression and the institutions and individuals whose decisions directly impact them.

Director of Photography/Creative Director

Marc Gerke

Two-time Emmy-nominated director of photography with three decades shouldering a camera across 35+ countries. Credits span Oprah, ESPN's 30 for 30, CBS Sunday Morning, and the Peabody-winning Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise.

Editor

Lesley Kubistal

Five-time Emmy-nominated editor whose character-driven storytelling has shaped two decades of award-winning work with Harpo Productions and a long roster of acclaimed documentaries. Red Queen Media's senior editor for 11 years.

Cinematographer

David Estrada

Honduran cinematographer drawn to stories that find beauty where most assume there is none. AFI- and Andrew Berends Foundation-backed director; seven-year Red Queen Media collaborator based in Toronto and Tegucigalpa.

Producer

Laura Lanteri

Award-winning creative director and filmmaker known for omnichannel storytelling for Hermès, Tory Burch, and Gap. Now focused on long-form work that interrogates feminism, race, status, and power. Based in New York.

Editor

Joe Vallero

Emmy- and Clio Award-winning editor based in Los Angeles, with more than a decade cutting trailers, TV spots, documentaries, and feature films for Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, Sony, and Amazon.

Producer/Indigenous Advisor

Wašté Win Yellowlodge Young

Citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, attorney, and longtime Indigenous rights advocate whose organizing has helped divest hundreds of millions of dollars from harmful extractive industries.

Composer

Neil Kring

Composer whose tasteful scores have for the past decade elevated Red Queen Media originals including END OF THE LINE: THE WOMEN OF STANDING ROCK, GOOD BOY, and NINE LITTLE INDIANS.

Photographer

Matt Beard

Los Angeles–based photographer, director, and certified drone pilot with 27+ years finding the moments that matter for Disney, Apple Music, Porsche, GAP, and a growing roster of brands and nonprofits.

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