Swampfest

directed by Brian Becker

Swampfest is a feature documentary about the gnarliest skateboard and BMX competition on planet earth in Waldo, Florida.

Meet the Team

Brian Becker
Director / Producer

  • Brian Becker is a New York-based filmmaker who directed and produced Time Bomb Y2K (co-directed with Marley McDonald) which premiered on HBO in December, 2023. The film’s lengthy festival run included True/False Film Festival, Hot Docs, Sheffield DocFest, IDFA, Camden International Film Festival, and DOCNYC, Brian served as archival producer on Free Chol Soo Lee, MLK/FBI, Spaceship Earth, and The Fourth Estate, and as co-producer on the series Bobby Kennedy for President. Brian is a 2022 Doc NYC 40 Under 40 recipient, Impact Partners Producing Fellow, Points North Fellow, and a FOCAL Jane Mercer Researcher of the Year award nominee.

Chris Passig
Editor

  • Christopher Passig is an Emmy®️ and Cinema Eye nominated editor whose projects have premiered at Sundance, Tribeca, Venice and Berlin. Best known for the hit HBO series Telemarketers, he has been drawn to provocative, off-kilter true stories and candid moments of character. He was the senior editor on the Peabody Award winning Time: The Kalief Browder Story and received an Emmy®️ nomination for Rest In Power: The Trayvon Martin Story, which he edited and co-wrote. Other credits include Nanette Burstein’s Hilary, the Oscar®️ shortlisted documentary The Great Hack and the HBO hit series The Vow and Love Has Won. Most recently, Christopher edited Teenage Wasteland, directed by Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine, which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. He was once described by Jane Campion as “Able to make and control a story using the back of a McDonald’s carton.”

Shanna Zablow Newton
Executive Producer

  • Shanna Zablow Newton has been an integral part of the jackass family for over 20 years. While keeping the jackass cast & crew together on the seminal franchise, Newton honed her producorial skills across a myriad of television series, documentaries & films, including Loiter Squad with Tyler the Creator and Odd Future, MTV’s popular shows Nitro Circus and Ridiculousness and the three-part docuseries for Paramount+ Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored Story of ‘80s Hair Metal. Newton also produced the ground-breaking film Bad Grandpa - a narrative story told through hidden camera pranks, followed by Bad Trip with Eric Andre and Tiffany Haddish, which spent 3 consecutive weeks at #1 on Netflix. As the President of Jeff Tremaine’s Gorilla Flicks, Newton recently helped bring the jackass brand back together, producing the latest installation of the jackass franchise - jackass forever.

Darcy McKinnon
Producer

  • Darcy McKinnon is a documentary filmmaker based in New Orleans whose work focuses on the American South and the Caribbean. Recently released projects include A KING LIKE ME and ROLEPLAY (SXSW, 2024), COMMUTED (PBS, 2024), ALGIERS, AMERICA (Hulu, 2023), UNDER G-D (Sundance 2023), LOOK AT ME! XXXTENTACION (SXSW, Hulu, 2022) and THE NEUTRAL GROUND (Tribeca, POV, 2021). Current projects in production include Jason Fitzroy Jeffers’s THE FIRST PLANTATION, Abe Felix’s TURNAROUND, CJ Hunt’s UNLEARNED, Nicole Craine’s KINFOLK and Zac Manuel’s THE INSTRUMENT. McKinnon’s work has been seen on World Channel, AfroPop, POV, Reel South, LPB and Hulu and has screened at Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, CPH:DOX and more. She is an alum of the Impact Partners Producing Fellowship and the Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellowship and is a recipient of American Documentary’s Creative Visionary Award.

Jamie McBriety
Executive Producer

  • Jamie McBriety has firmly established herself as a prominent producer in the entertainment industry, particularly in the realms of documentary filmmaking, post-production, and design. With an extensive portfolio of award-winning films and series, Jamie has demonstrated her versatility and expertise across carious high-profile projects. Recently, she served as the Co-Producer for the HBO’s documentary feature Slave Play directed by Jeremy O. Harris and is the Co-Producer for Paramount+’s docu-series Nöthin' But a Good Time directed by Jeff Tremaine. Jamie has also produced on notable works such as the Disney+ documentaries Olvia Rodrigo: Driving Home 2 U and Obi-wan Kenobi: A Jedi’s Return. Additionally, she is the co-executive producer of the Disney Animation series Sketchbook and Marvel’s Stan Lee. She also co-produced the Disney+ documentaries Wolfgang, A Spark Story, and More Than Robots. On the series side, Jame was the co-producer on the Netflix series Trial By Media and the Disney+ series Marvel’s 616. As a seasoned post producer, Jamie has overseen numerous acclaimed projects, including the Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning 13th, directed by Ava DuVernay, Morgan Neville’s Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Roger Ross William’s The Appollo, and Ron Howard’s Pavarotti. Each of these films has earned significant recognition and acclaim, underscoring Jamie’s skill in producing impactful and thought-provoking content.

Dan Silver
Executive Producer

  • Dan Silver. an award-winning filmmaker, is the creative force behind BD4, a premium production label launched in September 2025. Renowned for his talent-friendly approach and keen commercial instincts, Silver has played a pivotal role in shaping the Unscripted and Documentary landscape across some od the industry’s most influential platforms. Throughout his distinguished career, Silver has left his mark at Netflix, Disney+, Marvel Entertainment, ABC News, and ESPN Films. At Netflix, he led the acclaimed English Language Feature Documentaries team, guiding projects such as Sly and the Emmy Award-winning The Redeem Team. At Disney+, he established and grew the Documentary, Unscripted Format, and Variety Special divisions, steering them through the platform’s launch. His leadership at Marvel and ABC News Digital included launching the Emmy-winning ABC News Features brand, and at ESPN Films, he was essential to the creation of the celebrated 30 for 30 documentary series. Dan is an active member of the Producers Guild of America, and a graduate of Syracuse University, where he now teaches part-time. He currently resides in South Pasadena, CA with his wife, two children, and two dogs.

Daniel Hymanson
Director of Photography

  • Daniel Hymanson is a documentary filmmaker based in New York City. He was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2020 and included on DOC NYC’s “40 Under 40” list in 2021. His first feature, So Late So Soon, received support from the Sundance Institute and premiered at the 2020 True/False Film Festival. Released by Oscilloscope Pictures, So Late So Soon was shortlisted by the IDA Documentary awards for Best Feature and streamed on The Criterion Channel. Additional credits include Associate Producer on The Last Season (Independent Spirit Award nominee) and Western (Special Jury Prize at Sundance). Daniel is currently in production on his second feature film with support from Catapult Film Fund, The Gotham, and the Jewish Film Institute.

Jeff Tremaine
Executive Producer

  • Jeff Tremaine made his initial mark helming Big Brother Skateboard Magazine where he - along with Spike Jonze and Johnny Knoxville - laid the seeds for the television series and cultural phenomenon that is jackass. The success of the show spawned the jackass movie franchise, which, along with Bad Grandpa, grossed over a half a billion dollars worldwide and helped pave the way for a generation of voices to create outside the norm. Tremaine has continued to influence culture in television; he’s behind shows like Nitro Circus, Loiter Squad, and Ridiculousness. Also passionate about documentaries, he produced Being Evel and The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, and has directed two of ESPN’s 30 for 30: The Birth of Big Air and Angry Sky. In 2018, he directed his first scripted narrative feature, The Dirt, which tells the origin story of the rock band Mötley Crüe. In 2021, Tremaine produced Netflix’s Bad Trip, a narrative hidden camera comedy starring Eric Andre and Tiffany Haddish. The movie held the #1 spot on Netflix for three weeks. Following that he went back to where it all began - directing and producing the latest installment of his beloved franchise, jackass forever - a critically acclaimed hit and Tremaine’s fifth #1 box office success. Most recently, Jeff directed and produced a three-part docuseries for Paramount+ Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored Story of ‘80s Hair Metal, which chronicles the history of the ‘80s hair metal phenomenon on the Sunset Strip.

Ryan Harrington
Executive Producer

  • Ryan Harrington has dedicated his career to nurturing and empowering filmmakers from around the globe as a producer, creative executive, and through his various roles in the equity and non-profit funding worlds. Harrington is currently the Exectuvie Producer of Documentary at BD4, Banijay America’s newest production label. BD4 specializes in premium documentary storytelling that blends commercial sensibility with creative execution. Guided by principles of joy, surprise, and delight, BD4’s slate includes genre-driven films that redefine what documentary films can be. Previously, he served as VP, Documentary Films at National Geographic; VP, Artist Programs at Tribeca Film Institute; Director of Documentary Film at Discovery; Production Manager at A&E IndieFilms and Curator-in-Chief at the Jacob Burns Film Center. He sits on numerous advisory committees and is, proudly, the first male board member at Women Make Movies He is an Academy-Award and PGA-nominated; and Peabody, Emmy and IDA-winning producer, as well as frequent panelist, speaker and jurist at industry events around the world.