Sunday, June 14
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM

Regal Gallery Place

701 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

for all screenings

Amazing Live Sea Monkeys

Co-Directors

Mark Becker, Aaron Schock

Executive Producers

Ben Cotner, Emily Osborne, Joe Caterini, Logan Snyder

Co-Executive Producer

Marissa Torres Ericson

Consulting Producer

Jennifer Grausmann

Producers

Mark Becker, Aaron Schock

Co-Producer

Julie Gaynin

Line Producer

Steve Bennett

Archival Producer

Aaron Schock

Editor

Mark Becker

Co-Editor

Julie Gaynin

Consulting Editor

Richard Hankin

Assistant Editor

Ha Vo

Cinematographers

Mark Becker, Aaron Schock

Music

Nathan Larson, Max Avery Lichtenstein

Animators

Barry Thompson, Casey Friedman

From her crumbling estate on the Potomac River, Yolanda Signorelli von Braunhut wages a David-and-Goliath battle to wrest control of her late husband Harold’s iconic novelty toy, AMAZING LIVE SEA-MONKEYS!, from the corporate men she insists stole it from her. For forty years, Yolanda worked alongside Harold von Braunhut — a magician, scientist, and inventor — before his death left the toy, and its secret formula, in her care. Now Yolanda alone holds the key to the true Sea-Monkeys formula and is determined to free them — not only from their corporate captors, but from the shadow of her husband’s dark legacy.

Co-director, Amazing Live Sea Monkeys

Mark Becker is a documentary director and editor whose work has earned critical acclaim across film and television. He was nominated for an Independent Spirit Awards Award and won the Humanitas Prize for VOW OF SILENCE: THE ASSASSINATION OF ANNIE MAE (2024), released by Hulu. He co-directed and edited the Emmy-nominated ART AND CRAFT, which was shortlisted for the Academy Awards in 2015. His first feature, ROMÁNTICO (2005), premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and received two Independent Spirit Award nominations. He directed the Emmy-nominated PRESSURE COOKER (2008) for Participant Media and was an editor on LOST BOYS OF SUDAN (2003). Most recently, Becker served as Supervising Editor on THE LIBRARIANS (2025), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically nationwide. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Co-director, Amazing Live Sea Monkeys

Aaron Schock is an Emmy-nominated director who holds an M.A. in public policy from Columbia University. Before turning to documentary filmmaking, he worked in social research at Columbia and in nonprofit community development in the South Bronx. His feature documentary CIRCO premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and the Los Angeles Film Festival, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Hamptons International Film Festival, and was released theatrically in the U.S., U.K., and Canada before airing nationally on Independent Lens and internationally on HBO. His film LA LAGUNA received a 2017 Cinema Eye Honors Award and won Best Documentary Short at the Woodstock Film Festival and the Panavision Best North American Short Award at the Palm Springs International ShortFest, among other honors.