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Evelyn O. Vaccaro
Creator/Executive Producer/Director
Evelyn is based in New York and travels nationwide and internationally as a Freelance Media Producer. She is a huge human and animal welfare advocate, having created several human and animal crisis awareness campaigns over the past 10 years. At a very early age, Evelyn volunteered at homeless shelter in New York’s Bowery. She started rescuing, fostering and finding forever homes for many a homeless animal in need since childhood. These were humanitarian efforts that her parents and educators encouraged and supported, teaching her about showing kindness and compassion to others in need at a very early age.
Evelyn’s passion for documentary film making, combined with her love and knowledge of the homeless animal crisis, allowed her to complete two full featured, self produced and funded documentaries: ‘Its a Potcake Life’ and ‘Circle of Strength’. Both were created to bring awareness and support to the Potcakes and their very dedicated rescuers of the Bahamas.
Evelyn’s resume of volunteer work include the production of:
-‘What a Dog Needs’ PSA’s, performed by children to serve as educational messages on the basic necessities of the animals in need. Evelyn was able to get ‘It’s a Potcake Life’ and the ‘What a Dog Needs’ PSA’s aired on a popular local Bahamian TV station for viewing by the locals, the target audience.
Jason Eliot
Co-Executive Producer/Cinematographer
Jason Eliot - Co-Executive Producer, Jason Eliot was born in Hartford, Connecticut. His parents would move the family to a small town in Vermont when he was 7 years old. Vermont would not only be his physical home for many years but his spiritual and inspirational one as well.
Through his experiences and the friendships made along the way, Jason has always tried to live a true and meaningful life, mentoring and helping those in need.
Currently when not writing or filming he works as a Supervisor for a level 5 General Contracting Company— two of his projects have been featured in Architectural Digest. Jason has a tremendous love for all animals, especially his rescued birds, cat and dogs.
Jason helps Evelyn with animal rescue as much as possible while also showing her projects financial and video production support including filming, sound recording, color correction, editing and music. He is Co-executive Producer of both documentaries, ’It's a Potcake Life’ and ‘For Satos Sake’.
Stephen Bodi
Cinematographer/Media Management
Known as the team’s tech expert, Stephen started his career as a videographer and editor in 2001. These days, Stephen continues his work on film and TV productions, including several documentaries, news gathering and independent film projects in and around the New York area.
Stephen has been working with Evelyn, since 2017, on creating content for what ultimately would become ‘For Satos Sake’ Documentary, as well as several other rescue awareness campaigns.
Stephen primarily films with the Nikon Z6 and Nikon Z8 Mirrorless cameras along with professional sound equipment. He is not only relied on for filming but for media management, computer application assistance, editing and digital delivery on the production.
Stephen is a pleasure to work with, loves animal rescue and continues to be a valued team member on the ‘For Satos Sake’ Documentary production.
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Michael Meadows
2nd Unit Director of Photography
Drone Operator
Michael and his wife met Evelyn in 2020 when they were living in Puerto Rico doing volunteer work. Filming and editing had been a hobby of Michael’s for years and he had been collecting awe inspiring footage of both the beauty and the tragedy during their year in Puerto Rico.
Michael and his wife were rescuing animals during this time and filming those heartbreaking cases as well. When the two of them met Evelyn, they all became the perfect team. The footage that Michael already had integrated perfectly into ‘For Satos Sake’ Documentary, giving his hobby and library a whole new purpose.
Years later he continued on to film and act as a second unit director of photography, helping Evelyn create more critical stories for ‘For Satos Sake’ Documentary.
Michael is a Part 107 certified drone pilot who also uses a Sony A7s3 and a GoPro for action packed shots. Now living back in his home state of Colorado, he continues to film weddings, advertisements, and travel videos. Michael’s love for animals and videography brought him into this project by fate. He and his wife Kelly are extremely dedicated to the cause.
They both continue to help Spay and Neuter animals in Puerto Rico and through their organization S.O.S ‘Spay our Satos’.
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Jorge Vidal
Cinematographer
Jorge Vidal was born and raised on the island of Puerto Rico. He has been contributing to the For Satos Sake Documentary since 2019, providing very powerful interviews and footage for ‘For Satos Sake’ documentary.
Jorge graduated from the Universidad de Puerto Rico where his focus of study was in Audiovisual Communications. He started working in film and TV professionally in 2013.
Jorge is trained to use numerous film production equipment and used the Black Magic 4K for filming footage for ‘For Satos Sake’. He continues to work on all types of productions including
music videos, commercials, movies and documentaries.
His love for his homeland of Puerto Rico and the animals that share it, as well as his deep concern for the animal crisis going on in PR, had him signing up to be a cinematographer on Evelyn’s production without skipping a beat.
Today Jorge continues to film for the ‘For Satos Sake’ Documentary production and just currently filmed a historic Spay and Neuter event that will be featured in the documentary.
Kelly Meadows
Co-Production Coordinator/Content Producer
Kelly Meadows, wife and business partner of Michael Meadows, when not working to help spay and neuter cats and dogs of Puerto Rico, is a full time Quality Control Director which made her a great asset to the post production work on For Satos Sake. Her keen eye helped during the editing.
Kelly having been co-producing rescue footage during rescues she and Michael were doing in Puerto Rico over the 2 years they lived there, helped contribute real time rescue footage as well as acted as a co-producer and co-editing during the 2nd phase of filming for For Satos Sake.
Nowadays, Kelly continues to help Spay and Neuter animals for families with financial needs and to date has helped spay over 2000 animals.
Jorge Santiago
Jorge is a senior at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus (UPRM) studying Film and Music, his two passions. Since he was a child, he has been interested in filmmaking, but always saw it as a distant dream. This changed when he entered the Film Certificate program at his university and had filmmaker Raisa Bonnet as his mentor. From then on, he began working on productions as a production assistant and camera assistant. As he delved further into this world, his passion for filmmaking was reaffirmed, and the challenge of co-directing and editing his first documentary gave him the opportunity he desired. After the initial screenings of the finished documentary, he saw how film can be used to empower communities and promote necessary discussions and change among the impacted audience. He then started working on Evelyn O. Vaccaro’s For Satos Sake as a cinematographer & editor; which has been a gratifying experience that has backed up this belief of giving a microphone to communities in need of change. He travels monthly from San Juan to Mayagüez and constantly finds abandoned animals by the street who have died because of being impacted by cars. It shouldn’t be this way. Through this documentary he has learned more about the situation by speaking with rescuers, veterinarians, and activists who have given a human voice to the satos’ struggle. It is an honor for him to contribute to this project and hopes that it helps in sparking the awareness and changes needed.
Recipient of an an Honorable Mention Award for his documentary film Todavía Estamos Aquí. at the International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival 2023, Jorge Santiago is talented UPRM Software Engineering Major, @ UPRM who loves the art of documentary film making. A very proud Puerto Rican, he is very excited about being able to give back to his beloved Puerto Rico by acting as one of the cinematographers on For Satos Sake.
Evelyn having met Jorge at the International Puerto Rican Heritage Festival, she immediately knew she had to invite Jorge to be a part of the production team. Within 2 months of that meeting, she hired Jorge to film and edit 2 segments which will be a very special part of For Satos Sake.