2nd Unit Production Team/Thailand

Matthew Kelly
​2nd Unit Co-Producer

Matthew Kelly is a musician, songwriter, and record producer; his music career has spanned over 50 years. He has performed and toured extensively with many bands and world-renowned blues musicians, including T-Bone Walker, Brownie McGee, Champion Jack DuPree, Mel Brown, and John Lee Hooker. Matthew has on numerous occasions performed live and was a guest artist with the legendary band The Grateful Dead. In 2000, after receiving the Ark Trust Genesis award, Matthew was inspired to benefit others through working with the Amicus Foundation in Thailand. He is also President of the Matthew Kelly Family Foundation, which supports projects in Thailand as well as nonprofit organizations in the U.S. Matthew generiously co-produced the filming in Pattaya, Thailand for NGOs Children of the Forest and ATTC for the 26 Seconds project.

Cathy Pearson
​2nd Unit Director

After receiving a post graduate degree in film studies at University College Dublin in 1993, Cathy began working in the film industry as a production coordinator, trainee assistant director, and later, location manager. She has worked on over 25 international features in Ireland as location manager (P.S. I Love You, Marley & Me) and production manager (The Samuel Beckett Projects). In 2013, she directed and produced her first documentary feature Get The Picture with Academy Award-winning production company Ferndale Films, winning Best Irish Documentary at the Jameson Dublin Film Festival that year. She is currently developing several other feature documentary projects supported by the Irish Film Board. She is also a teacher of yoga, healing, and self-development.​

​Diego Barraza Dominguez
​2nd Unit Cinematographer

UK-based filmmaker and founder of SaGuarda Studios production company, Diego's work is distributed by Beyond Words, Gaiam and has aired in the UK, Spanish media BTV, TVE, The History Channel, and in film and documentary festivals in internationally. He won the Mole & Richardson Hollywood "Molennium Lighting Contest" in the year 2000. Diego is currently working on the short film "Cross;" he directed the feature-length documentary Part & Parcel a Yoga Documentary Satsang, and his experimental film
​"Different Trains, Distant Memories" played alongside a live performance of the Steve Reich's music and premiered at the Brunell Museum in London alongside the music of the Bergersen Quartet. ​

Andrei Jewell
​2nd Unit Cinematographer

Andrei Jewell’s work as a photographer, director, and cinematographer has spanned the rigor of documentary filmmaking, video art, and fashion and photographic advertising campaigns for major global brands and exhibitions in art galleries and museums. These exhibitions span from Australia’s Centre for Photography Sydney and The Govett-Brewster Gallery New Zealand to the TATE Modern London and Visionaire in New York. In the last decade, his commissioned work has been regularly featured in publications such as Archive 200 Best Ad Photographers Worldwide and Communication Arts Annual. Born in Zimbabwe though a New Zealand citizen, Andrei resides in Thailand and Singapore, where his production house Coyote MotionWorks produces both art and commerce projects alongside those for environmental and human rights.

Danny Paradise 
​2nd Unit Production Coordinator 

​​Danny Paradise is a filmmaker, activist, musician, and international yoga teacher. Danny has two original music CDs, River Of The Soul and Travelers, Magicians and Shamans, and is currently working on a third. He produced with Mathew Kelly the animated film "Love Will Rescue You," set to his original song of the same title. The animated film was shown in New York at the United Nations in October 2015 in a program about children's rights.

Bobby Parrs
​2nd Unit Drone Operator

​A New York City native, guitarist, producer, arranger, and videographer, Bobby Parrs has been touring for over 30 years through festivals in North America, Asia, and Europe. His supportive role as a player has earned him a chair with notable international artists, such as Jai Uttal, Jon Anderson, Daniel Paul, Daphne Tse, Dona De Lory, Zero, Danny Paradise, John Martyn, and Pamela Poland to name a few.