THE TEAM

Lindsay Utz 
Co-Founder
Director, Producer & Editor

Utz is an award-winning filmmaker who has worked on some of the most high-profile documentaries of the last decade, including editing the 2020 Academy Award winner American Factory. 

She most recently directed Prime Minister, which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award. The film went on to be acquired by Magnolia, HBO and CNN. It had a nationwide theatrical release in June, with an international release to follow. The film will come to HBO and CNN in the fall. 

Her other editing credits include Martha (2024), Civil (2022), the Oscar-shortlisted Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry (2021), Miss Americana (2020), Quest (2017), In Country (2014), and Bully (2011). Quest, one of four films she has premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for both Emmy and Peabody Awards, and won the Cinema Eye Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in Editing. She has been nominated for every major editing award in her field, including Primetime Emmy nominations for her work on both American Factory and Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry.

In 2023 she produced the first documentary out of Ben Affleck’s newly-formed company Artists Equity, which premiered at number one on Amazon Prime in February 2024 and has a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Her work has screened at major festivals around the world, and has been included in prestigious archives such as the MoMA film library and The Criterion Collection. She is a member of the Documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and American Cinema Editors. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters.

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Margaret Yen
Co-Founder
Producer & Music Supervisor

Margaret Yen is a Grammy Award-winning music supervisor and former music executive for Netflix, Legendary Pictures and This Machine Filmworks with decades of experience working across some of the best independent and studio feature films and documentaries. 

Yen started her career as an independent music supervisor at Inaudible Productions. There, she built a full service music supervision, music clearance, catalog representation, estate management, and film/TV production company, alongside partner Peter Afterman, which managed the James Brown estate as well as the Rolling Stones catalog, from the band’s 1971 album Sticky Fingers through to the present. 

She has music supervised over 100 feature films including Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy and Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know as well as music docs like It Might Get Loud with Jimmy Page, Jack White, and The Edge, Crossfire Hurricane about the Rolling Stones, and Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown, which won a 2015 Peabody Award and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Music Film. 

In 2009, she music supervised Jason Reitman’s Juno, for which she won a Grammy for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album. Yen recently music supervised the Elton John documentary Never Too Late, which was nominated for a 2025 Academy Award for Best Original Song. In 2018, she co-produced the Joan Jett documentary Bad Reputation and recently executive produced Karol G: Tomorrow Was Beautiful for Netflix. She is currently producing a music documentary about Olivia Newton-John, also for Netflix.

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