Aimée Barry Broustra studied screenplay writing at Media Bistro, under D.B. Gilles, a faculty member of New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. She wrote the screenplay for the short film, Have You Seen My Wife? filmed in Westchester County, New York. Ms. Broustra also produced and worked as assistant director on this short film.


The Young Ancestors, produced, written and directed by Ms. Broustra, is her first documentary film. In addition, Ms. Broustra plans to produce and direct a feature film base don her screenplay, Bring Back That Day, about the estranged relationship between a Native American teenager and his non-native father.


Ms. Broustra studied at St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico and graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. She pursued post-graduate studies at Sarah Lawrence College. Ms. Broustra moved from New York to Santa Fe with her French husband, two teenage children and their dogs.

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Laura Kaye Jagles, Tewa Language Mentor, is the Seventh Grade Southwest Literature Teacher at Santa Fe Preparatory School, a position she has held for the past eight years. In addition to her teaching duties, at Santa Fe Preparatory School, Ms. Jagles volunteers as a sponsor of the Native Club and serves as a facilitator for the Faculty Diversity Committee. Laura has presented at the NAIS People of Color Conference for the past several years. Her volunteer commitments include being a member of the National Association of Independent School’s Call to Action and a Board member of College Horizons.


Motivated by community-based volunteerism, Ms. Jagles has served as a reader for the Gates Millenium Scholarship Selection and Review Committee. She has tutored Tesuque Pueblo students in English and Algebra. For the Association of Native Americans, Laura volunteered as Tribal Educator for Tesuque Pueblo. Ms. Jagles has been a Board of Education Member for Tesuque Pueblo as well as a volunteer for Tesuque Pueblo Futures for Children Program.

Prior to coming to Santa Fe Preparatory School, Laura was the Educational Advisor for E.N.I.P.C. Educational Talent Search. At the Native American Preparatory School, Ms. Jagles taught Ninth and Tenth Grade English and worked as Residential Advisor. She was also Counselor for American Indian Middle and High School Students for Pojoaque Valley Schools Indian Education Department. Laura graduated from Allegheny College with a B.A. in English. She was the first recipient of Allegheny College’s Paula Coyle Community Building Award. Ms. Jagles holds an M.A. in English from Middlebury College Bread Loaf School of English.

Antoine P. Broustra is a Principal at Southwest Planning & Marketing, a research and advisory focused company in Santa Fe, which has been in business for over thirty-two years.


Prior to moving to Santa Fe, Antoine spent seventeen years as an international corporate and investment banker in New York. In his native France, Antoine worked as a publisher in a family-owned company. In addition, he volunteered in local, Paris, politics and did consulting for a Philadelphia company.


Antoine advises many companies in areas as such as financing and strategic planning. He coaches small enterprises and individuals on how to develop viable, economic business plans with an emphasis on long-term success. Antoine received his undergraduate degree from the Wharton School and his MBA from Columbia Business School.

Throughout the past 15 years, Ms. Bridge has pursued a film career in a variety of roles including Writer, Actor, Producer, Director and Editor. She has proven her effectiveness at organizing and coordinating shoots, using production equipment and writing and editing scenes, treatments and scripts. An award-winning filmmaker, Ms. Bridge is a creative and technically experienced film editor with 10+ year’s experience.  She has edited a variety of films encompassing narratives, documentaries, commercials, corporate and fundraising videos.  Ms. Bridge’s most recent projects include:  the role of Editor on the award-winning feature documentary, WILD HORSES & RENEGADES; a multi-media project for the Phoenix Art Museum’s exhibit BRIDGE AT HOOVER DAM photography by Jamey Stillings; and a corporate video for the Santa Fe Waldorf School.  She holds a BA in Art from San Diego State University and a BA in Moving Image Arts from the College of Santa Fe.

Jason Jaacks Is a documentary photographer and filmmaker, and a media instructor. He has worked for CBS and PBS NewsHour and Frontline as a videographer and editor. Since moving to Santa Fe, he has collaborated on documentary video projects with SITE Santa Fe, Lannan Foundation, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and Littleglobe, Inc. His multi-media documentary project, A Voice in the Desert, which examines the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border and its effects on the Tohono O’odham people, has had photographic exhibitions in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Bogotá, Colombia. The short film component of the project screened at the 10th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival.


As an instructor, Jason has assisted in media-making workshops in South Africa, New Mexico and on the Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona. More than technical exercises, the workshops Jason has taught empower participants’ voices through hands-on, community-based storytelling. He has produced short narrative, documentary and experimental films with atrisk, rural, and inter-generational communities. He is currently collaborating with National Geographic All Roads Film Project and the Indigenous Language Institute to facilitate the creation of short films for the Greater New Mexico Film and Photography Contest.


Jason is the Executive Director of Cordillera Productions, a production company specializing in documentary short films, new media production and documentary photography. Jason holds a B.A. in Documentary Studies from College of Santa Fe. He currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Christine Jawski has a MS in Nutrition, and has worked in the fields of deaf/blindness and environmental/wellness education. Christine most recently began studies in Documentary as a way to record and share the stories of many. She has worked on four films to date as a transcriptionist and most recently began directing her first documentary.

Laura Kaye Jagles - Producer

Aimée Barry Broustra - Producer / Director

Antoine P. Broustra - Associate Producer

Jason Jaacks - Director of Photography

Shelene Bridge - Editor

Christine Jawski

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