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Shad Run was produced by Ben Dorger and Becky Harlan.

Ben Dorger is a filmmaker, photographer and journalist based in Ogden, Utah. He is currently a multimedia journalist at the Standard-Examiner newspaper in Northern Utah. Ben graduated with a master’s in New Media Photojournalism from the Corcoran College of Art + Design and has a BFA in Media Art from the University of Tennessee. Before moving to Utah, Ben started his career in Washington, D.C. He was the Senior Editor at Stone Soup Films and has interned for the video teams at USA Today and The Washington Post. He has had multiple independent short documentary films screen in several film festivals.

Becky Harlan is a video producer and photographer based on a house barge in the District of Columbia’s Washington Channel. She has been obsessed with documenting Washington’s waterways since 2012. Currently, she works on the video team at NPR. Before that, she was a photo editor and writer for National Geographic’s photography blog. She earned her master’s in New Media Photojournalism from the Corcoran College of Art + Design in 2013, and she has a BA in Art History from Furman University.

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