Team

Norah Shapiro | Director/Producer

Minneapolis-based, Emmy Award winning filmmaker Norah Shapiro specializes in documentary storytelling. Prior to her filmmaking career, she spent over a decade as a trial attorney. Her film Time for Ilhan, about the political rise of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and remains available on multiple streaming platforms. Time for Ilhan won multiple audience awards and received a 2018-2019 Daytime EMMY Award for Outstanding Directing. Ms. Shapiro’s new film Magic & Monsters received the IDA Enterprise Development (2019) and Production (2020) Grant for work at the intersection of journalism and cinema, and the Library of Congress/Ken Burns Prize for documentary film 2024 Runner up award. Shapiro is two-time McKnight Media Artist Fellow, and her past work has also received support from the Tribeca Film Institute, Catapult Film Fund, the Jerome Foundation and others. She is the mother of three young adults, and a founding member of the Minneapolis Chapter of Film Fatales.

Anthony Edwards | Executive Producer

Anthony Edwards is one of television and film’s most enduring presences — an actor whose work consistently balances intelligence, warmth, and emotional honesty. Best known for his landmark role as Dr. Mark Greene on NBC’s ER, Edwards earned four Emmy nominations, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for a performance that defined an era of prestige television. Earlier in his career, his portrayal of Goose in Top Gun made him a household name and remains one of the most beloved supporting performances in American cinema. Over four decades, Edwards has brought nuance and integrity to every genre — film, theater, documentary, and limited series — demonstrating a consistent commitment to stories that matter. Edwards joins Magic & Monsters as Executive Producer not merely as a celebrated name, but as a deeply engaged advocate. His own public disclosure of childhood sexual abuse — and his longstanding commitment to accountability — make his partnership with this film a profound and meaningful one. Most recently, Edwards has been cast as family patriarch Paul Bosco in Seven Sisters, a new FX drama series alongside Elizabeth Olsen, Cristin Milioti, and J. Smith-Cameron. The series received a full series order from FX in December 2025.

Elizabeth Foy Larsen | Producer/Writer

Elizabeth Foy Larsen is an award-winning, Minneapolis-based journalist and best-selling author. Her work has appeared in numerous national and international publications, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, Slate, The Daily Beast, Family Circle, The Guardian, and StarTribune. Her Mpls/St.z Paul magazine feature article, The Exit Strategy about the litigation against the Children’s Theatre Companyz won best feature at the 2018 Minnesota Magazine Awards. Elizabeth taught magazine journalism at thez University of Minnesota’s Hubbard School of Journalism for 11 years.

Christine Delp | Producer

Christine Delp is an award-winning documentary director, producer and sociologist. Her debut SANTUARIOz won Tribeca Film Institute’s IF/THEN pitch and the New Orleans Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize. Shez recently produced the HBO doc series BURDEN OF PROOF. Christine’s films, which focus on complex social issues, have earned support from Sundance Institute, IDFA Forum, Sheffield MeetMarket and more. As a producer, she worked on the Emmy- and Peabody-winning A CHEF’S LIFE  on PBS. She’s a NewOrleans Film Society Fellow, UC Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program associate, and PhD sociologyz student at the University of Minnesota, where she holds an NSF fellowship.

Brennan Vance | Director of Photography

Brennan’s work has been featured on HBO, PBS, NBC, and Starz and at such film festivals as SXSW, Tribeca, Slamdance, and Full Frame. Vance has worked commercially with a wide range of brands such as Balenciaga, Under Armour, Organic Valley, and Target. His upcoming cinematography projects include Cecilia Aldarondo’s You Were My First Boyfriend and Norah Shapiro’s Magic & Monsters. His feature-length directorial debut, The Missing Sun, was released in 2018 and earned him a McKinght Media Fellowship

Julia Parroni | Editor

Julia Parroni is a documentary film editor with 25 years of experience. She started doing location sound recording and editing on fiction films, then found her calling editing documentaries. She has worked with a diverse array of directors including Errol Morris, Rick Burns, Bill Moyers and Francis Ford Coppola. She has edited feature length and television documentaries for theatrical release, PBS series, American Masters and American Experience, museums and network series. Projects she edited were awarded the Peabody Award, the American Cinema Editors Best Edited Documentary, and a New York Emmy for Best Short Documentary.

Jen Bradwell | Editor

Jen Bradwell is an editor with over a dozen feature documentaries to her credit, including the Emmy Award-winning Time for Ilhan, Sundance premiere Resilience, HBO’s Toxic Hot Seat and The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia, and the SXSW Audience Award-winning MINE: Taken by Katrina. Among the films she has cut for James Redford, two seminal projects (Resilience and Paper Tigers) center on how childhood trauma affects brain development, and what the likes of doctors and educators are doing with this emerging science. To date, they have had more than 40,000 community screenings around the country and have helped spark a national conversation on what it means to be trauma informed.

Kirsten Kelly – Impact Producer

Kirsten Kelly is an Emmy and Golden Telly Award–winning documentary filmmaker, impact producer, and narrative change media maker. Her film, This Is Where I Learned Not To Sleep, (2024 SIMA Impact Award, 2023 Purple Ribbon Award; Kinema Impact Distribution) examines the complex relationship between law enforcement and survivors of family violence. Kirsten produced the film’s impact campaign which focused on inspiring men to stand up against domestic violence in their own communities. Her Emmy-winning The Homestretch (PBS/Kartemquin Films, PBS American Graduate Initiative) was supported by Sundance, Chicken & Egg,  and MacArthur, with an impact campaign which led to 800+ community screenings nationwide. Other highlights: The Girl with the Rivet Gun, Stranger/Sister, Asparagus! Stalking the American Life and the Telly Award–winning Healing the Healers digital mental health series focusing on the role of faith communities in addressing healing after mass shootings, domestic violence and teen mental health crisis. She holds a Masters in Directing from Juilliard and has directed theater productions regionally and Off-Broadway. She is passionate about the importance of arts education and in 2004 created an innovative youth theater program with Chicago Public Schools and Chicago Shakespeare. The program was honored with the prestigious National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award presented by First Lady Michelle Obama in 2014. www.spargelproductions.com