SYNOPSIS
Director Luke Lorentzen’s A STILL SMALL VOICE follows Mati, a chaplain completing a year-long hospital residency, as she learns to provide spiritual care to people confronting profound life changes. Through Mati’s experiences with her patients, her struggle with professional burnout, and her own spiritual questioning, we gain new perspectives on how meaningful connection can be and how painful its absence is.
FILMMAKERS
LUKE LORENTZEN - DIRECTOR
Luke Lorentzen is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and a graduate of Stanford University's department of Art and Art History. His most recent film, A Still Small Voice, premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival where it won the U.S. Documentary Best Director Award. His previous film, Midnight Family, has won over 35 awards from film festivals and organizations around the world including a Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, Best Editing from the International Documentary Association, and the Golden Frog for Best Documentary from Camerimage. Midnight Family was shortlisted for the 2020 Best Documentary Oscar and was a New York Times ‘Critics’ Pick’. Luke’s other work as a director and cinematographer includes the Netflix original series, Last Chance U, which won an Emmy for Outstanding Serialized Sports Documentary in 2020. With Kellen Quinn, Luke is a co-founder of the independent production company Hedgehog Films.
KELLEN QUINN - PRODUCER
Kellen Quinn is an Oscar-nominated producer whose credits include Garrett Bradley's Time (Oscar nominated; Sundance 2020 winner of the Directing Award, US Documentary Competition), Luke Lorentzen's A Still Small Voice (Sundance 2023 winner of the Directing Award, US Documentary Competition) and Midnight Family (shortlisted for Documentary Feature Oscar; Sundance 2019 winner of Special Jury Award for Cinematography, US Documentary Competition), Noah Hutton’s In Silico (DOC NYC 2020), Daniel Hymanson’s So Late So Soon (True/False 2020) and Viktor Jakovleski's Brimstone & Glory (True/False 2017; aired on POV). Kellen was selected for the Dear Producer Award in 2023 and DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 class in 2020. In 2017 and 2018, he participated in the Sundance Documentary Creative Producing Lab and Fellowship. In 2016, he was among six producers selected for Impact Partners’ Documentary Producers Fellowship. With Luke Lorentzen, Kellen co-founded the independent production company Hedgehog Films.
ASHLEIGH MCARTHUR - CO-PRODUCER/ADDITIONAL EDITOR
Ashleigh McArthur is an Australian film director and editor currently based in San Francisco. She spent her early career working as a diplomat in Solomon Islands, Mexico and New York, before undertaking an MFA in Documentary Film at Stanford University. She was co-producer and additional editor on A Still Small Voice, premiering in the US Documentary Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
MARY LAMPSON - CONSULTING EDITOR
Mary Lampson is an independent documentary filmmaker and editor. Lampson co-edited the Academy Award–winning documentary Harlan County, USA. She has worked with Emile de Antonio, Ricky Leacock, D.A. Pennebaker, Naomi Kline, Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht She also produced and directed Until She Talks, a 40-minute dramatic film that aired on the PBS series American Playhouse, and 25 short live-action films for Sesame Street. Mary has been both a Fellow and Advisor at the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Editing and Story Lab (2005-2017) and an Artist in Residence at the Sundance Nonfiction Director's Residency (2018). She has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2012. She was a Consulting Editor on three films premiering at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival: The Disappearance of Shere Hite (directed by Nicole Newnham, edited by Eileen Myer), Joonam (directed by Sierra Ulrich, edited by Sierra Ulrich and Maya Daisy Hawke) and A Still Small Voice (directed and edited by Luke Lorenzen).
HEDGEHOG FILMS is a production company dedicated to making creatively adventurous, ambitious cinema, works that are as enduring as they are inventive. The company is a collaboration between Kellen Quinn and Luke Lorentzen.
