INVADERS

INVADERS is a poetic documentary film following a group of citizen scientists as they spend their free time scouring Maine’s coastline for marine invasive species.

Artist bios

Morgan Hulquist is an emerging documentary artist based in Portland, Maine, whose work explores latent place-based stories. She is an Associate Producer at the New York-based independent production company Multitude Films, a queer- and women-run independent production company invested in mentoring the next generation of documentary producers. There, she has helped produce ten+ critically acclaimed documentary films including Netflix Original POWER (Sundance 2024), Oscar-shortlisted HBO Original HOW WE GET FREE (Aspen Shortsfest 2023), and Peacock’s LOWNDES COUNTY AND THE ROAD TO BLACK POWER (MoMA 2022). Originally from San Diego, Morgan has studied video art at Hampshire College in Massachusetts and filmmaking at Brooklyn College, DCTV, and BRIC in New York. Now residing in Maine, she spends her free time in the sacred place that is its shoreline. She moved to Maine in part because my partner works at a commercial shipping company which transports goods across the North Atlantic. During the summers, Morgan has picked up part-time work at an oyster shop in Portland, serving Maine-grown shellfish to tourists and locals alike, and by way of organizing, she has become an active witness to the history of the Wabanaki Nations and Maine’s storied past of theft and broken treaties — as well as current efforts to return ancestral lands and waters to Abenaki/Wabanaki people. She is a member of Film Workers for Palestine and the Maine Palestine Film Collective.

Rebecca Celli (Producer, Core Collaborator): is a documentary film fundraiser, story consultant, producer, and curator. She formerly worked at Chicken & Egg Pictures as Director of Development and at Cargo Film & Releasing as Director of Sales and Acquisitions. Rebecca has published art criticism for journals including Agnes Films and Precog; served on juries and panels at Chicken & Egg, Tallgrass Film Festival, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, DOC Institute, and MICA; and has curated film programs at Duplex in New York City and BOFFO in Fire Island. She holds a BA in Sociology and Film from Colorado College.

Cindy Choung (Consulting Producer) is a New York-based nonfiction narrative specialist. From 2016–2021, Cindy led the communications and fundraising team for Chicken & Egg Pictures. As an oral historian and storytelling consultant, she has worked with organizations to strengthen their institutional narrative and identity, including the Brooklyn Museum; Columbia University; the US Campaign for Burma; and the Smithsonian. She was Consulting Producer on ABOVE AND BELOW THE GROUND, about Myanmar's country-wide environmental movement led by indigenous women.

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Cover image: In this still from INVADERS production footage, MIMIC coordinator Jeremy holds up a tub with an European Rock Shrimp (palaemon elegans) in it for volunteers, who gaze longingly at it.