GOOD TALK WITH MAGGIE HARTMANS
Director/Producer of A GOOD NEIGHBOR
As a self-starter in the indie film world, Maggie Hart is no stranger to wearing multiple hats with shoestring budgets. While attending film school and working full-time as a production manager, she also had the crazy idea of making her first feature film, which was finally completed in 2014. She spent three years in LA as an award-winning writer, commercial producer, and screenwriting teacher, but longed for more meaningful work. In 2018 she shifted gears to documentary production, fulfilling a lifelong dream of using the power of cinematic storytelling to shift culture and change the world.
This core belief in the power of storytelling led her to co-found Farsighted Creative, a production company that looks beyond the trends of our current culture to tell meaningful stories that create empathy for today and a hopeful vision for tomorrow. She has since produced documentary podcasts, short films, episodic series, and feature length films, both documentary and narrative.
Expertise
As a Colorado native, I became passionate about the air quality in my community and of my neighbors. After spending three years with Lucy Molina and the organizations fighting for change in Commerce City, I can confidently speak to not only the problems facing polluted sacrifice zones, but how anyone can get involved to take care of their neighbors and slow climate change. Instead of focusing on a foreboding message of corruption and doom, we like to bring hope and solutions to those who watch our film and hear us speak.