SKY BERGMAN, FILMMAKER

Sky Bergman is an accomplished, award-winning photographer. Lives Well Lived was Sky’s directorial debut.

Her fine art work is included in permanent collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (National Library of France) in Paris. Her book, The Naked & The Nude: Images from the Sculpture Series, includes an introduction by Hèléne Pinet, curator of photography at the Rodin Museum in Paris. She has shot book covers for Random House and Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., and magazine spreads that appeared in Smithsonian, Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel, Reader’s Digest, and Archaeology Odyssey. 

Sky Bergman was the former chair of the Art & Design department at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, CA (2007 – 2013) and is currently a Professor of Photography and Video where she has been teaching since 1995.

KAORI FUNAHASHI PETERS, Second Shooter

Kaori Funahashi Peters is a California Central Coast-based commercial photographer specializing in endurance sports and multi-day adventure racing events, often in harsh environments all over the globe.

FRANCESCA LEE, Editor

Francesca Lee is an NYC elopement and portrait photographer. She co-creates images of confidence and ease so you can relive your Vogue moment again and again.

THE ETO FAMILY, THE STARS

Sky was inspired to make the Mochitsuki film after her interview with Lives Well Lived film star, Susy Eto Bauman. Susy spoke about the tradition of the Mochitsuki ceremony. Shortly thereafter, Sky was filming the Eto family Mochitsuki ceremony.