Award-winning filmmakers Mary Beth Brangan and James Heddle, with Oscar-nominated producer Morgan Peterson.
Filmmakers
JAMES HEDDLE and MARY BETH BRANGAN, life and work partners, are award-winning documentary video and radio producers, educators, and organizers. They co-direct EON, the Ecological Options Network, producing documentaries, video reports, and blogs on issues, activists, and organizations globally working for solutions to planetary challenges.
In the last three decades, Brangan and Heddle’s productions have been broadcast and toured nationally and internationally; aired in Congress, the United Nations, on PBS, ABC, CNN, and cable; and used in parliaments, universities, libraries, and by citizens’ organizations and NGO’s worldwide. Their work has been honored at the Sundance, American, San Francisco Asian-American, Dallas, Hawaii International, and Margaret Mead Film Festivals, among others.
Previous funders for their films include the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS, the Alton-Jones, McArthur, Columbia, and Turner Foundations, the European Commission, the Agape Foundation, Nu Lambda Trust, and many private donors.
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Mary Beth Brangan
PRODUCER
Mary Beth Brangan is a filmmaker and experienced organizer at the community, state, national and international levels. She helped found the successful movement to prevent the construction of a nuclear waste dump in Ward Valley, California, which would have infiltrated the Colorado River, the source of drinking water for millions of people.
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James Heddle
CO-DIRECTOR/DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
James has directed, shot, and edited over 19 documentaries and hundreds of video news reports. He taught film production at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Concordia University, Montreal, and other educational institutions.
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Morgan Peterson
CO-DIRECTOR/EDITOR
Morgan is a producer for the 2018 Oscar-nominated short film DeKalb Elementary and the feature documentary Bronies: The Extremely Unlikely Adult Fans of My Little Pony (2012). She is a writer/director for the award-winning shorts I'll Take Care Of You (2014), and The Greats (2015).
EON Partial Filmography
SOS YouTube Playlist
This is a series of 'preview interviews' and video reports from the S.O.S. - The San Onofre Syndrome on the San Onofre shutdown and waste storage fight as it unfolded over more than a decade.
It features local citizen voices in the potential disaster area of, well, most of southern California and beyond. This is an empowering victory story portraying in microcosm all the issues militating for the abolition of nuclear power and for the responsible long-term management of radioactive waste.
Nuclear Issues
Strategic Trust: The Making of Nuclear Free Palau – Narrated by Joanne Woodward
FreeZone: Democracy Meets the Nuclear Threat – Produced with David L. Brown
ChoicePoint - California's Water & Radioactive Waste
PELIGRO: Nuclear Showdown on the Rio Grande
Election Protection
A Little Light’ll Do Ya: Defending Democracy in America
Doing It Right: Democracy in the Pacific
Swing State - How the Fix was Nixed in Ohio 2012
Bordering On Tyranny: Thailand's Dilemma
The 2007 Philippines Election: A Fight for Deep Democracy
Electro-Magnetic Radiation Protection
Public Exposure: DNA, Democracy & the ‘Wireless Revolution’
Alternate Energy
Going Local: The Movement for Community Choice Energy
Public Power: From 'Energy Crisis' to Solar Democracy
EON Playlists
A few of the extensive additional video report playlists on the popular EON YouTube channel include:
