Welcome!
My name is Regan Pretlow Brashear (they/she) and Making Change Media is the online home for all of my film and impact campaign-related work, which I’m thrilled to share now includes somatic coaching for filmmakers, artists, and other changemakers.
Originally from Virginia, I have been working on racial, disability, LGBT+, and economic justice issues for over 30 years through documentary film, impact campaigns, union organizing, producing community forums, directing a teen theater troupe, and grassroots activism. You can learn more about my film, FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement, here. In my early 20s, I worked as a deep tissue massage therapist and, in recent years, I have come full circle, returning to the body as a primary site for healing and transformation. The core belief that motivates all of my work is that we need a “both/and” approach, to heal the world, we need to heal ourselves and that working with and through the body is critical to that healing… and to be able to heal ourselves and begin to imagine and live into a vision of collective liberation, we need to transform current conditions into a world where we all can thrive. As I weave together the threads of my own journey moving between film, social justice work, and the healing arts, I’m grateful to be able to draw upon my wide range of life experience and skills through Making Change Media to support you in living into and fulfilling your deepest calling, whether that’s going deep with crafting a meaningful impact campaign for your film or exploring somatically what might be getting in your way. Please drop me a line if you’d like to learn more or start a conversation.
Some of my favorite collaborators!
Cielo Lutino
Communications, Marketing, & Copywriting
Cielo Lutino is a writer, editor, and content / social media strategist with 15+ years experience. From digital to print media, she’s worked across departments including editorial, marketing, communications, and content, leading projects from start to finish. She has won writing residencies from Mustarinda and Signal Fire, and her literary nonfiction has been published in The Carolina Quarterly, Los Angeles Review, and Cold Mountain Review, among other publications. Until 2021, she led The Cutaway, an online magazine for professionals working in production across industries. You can find her portfolio here.
Ginny Browne
Impact & Communications Strategist
Ginny has spent 15 years as a facilitator, communicator, and convener, dedicated to amplifying the voices of ordinary people, especially those most marginalized, in the decisions and institutions that affect their lives. As an impact strategist, Ginny has developed national partnerships, produced educational resources, and managed social media for documentary films including Time for Ilhan and The Unafraid. Ginny spent seven years at the Participatory Budgeting Project working with government agencies and grassroots organizations across the U.S. to launch and run democratic processes that give communities direct decision-making power over public funds. Prior to PBP, Ginny worked as a community organizer with the grassroots New York organization Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES), a researcher with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in the Bay Area, and an AmericorpsVISTA associate with Fifth Avenue Committee, a community development corporation in Brooklyn. Ginny completed her Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning at UCLA, with a focus on community development and housing. She has a background in community media and has reported news for National Public Radio and the Pacifica Network.
Lonnie Frazier
Impact & Communications Strategist
Community Engagement Coordinator
Lonnie formerly served as a Community Engagement Coordinator for Making Change Media. Projects include supporting the impact campaigns for Peabody Award-winning DEEJ, a film on autism and inclusion, FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement, on disability, technology and enhancement, and I Am Maris, on eating disorders and mental health. She is currently co-directing a film about the history of African Americans in dance and ways that dance has been used for creating social change in the United States.
Jamie LeJeune
Documentary Cinematographer, Colorist, & Post-Production Supervisor
Jamie has shot, cut, and graded award winning, feature length documentaries. He also works as a technical consultant & post production supervisor designing workflows and solving problems for other documentary filmmakers, and has taught classes in color grading at UC Berkeley, Cal State East Bay, and San Francisco State. Jamie’s recent credits include: The Book Makers (in post production) – Cinematographer & Colorist; Sign My Name to Freedom (in post production) – Cinematographer & Colorist; Trashed (in post production) – Cinematographer, Online Editor & Colorist; Paradise (in post production) – Technical Consultant; Container (2019) – Colorist; Shades (2018) – Colorist; Circles (2017) – Cinematographer & Technical Consultant ; A Year in Port (2016) – Cinematographer, Editor, & Colorist; Gaining Ground (2016) – Cinematographer, Online Editor & Colorist; Daze of Justice (2016) – Online Editor & Colorist; Chinese Couplets (2016) – Online Editor & Colorist; A Year in Champagne (2015) – Cinematographer, Editor, & Colorist; Arion Press (2014) – Cinematographer & Colorist; Fixed (2013) – Co-Producer, Cinematographer & Colorist; A Year in Burgundy (2012) – Cinematographer, Editor, & Colorist