Creede U.S.A.

Documentary

Dec 20

cREEDE U.S.A.

Creede is a tiny, remote, mining town where residents hold tightly to their heritage. When the townspeople brought in a theater company in 1966 to bolster the dwindling economy, they opened its doors to all manner of folk and progressive ideas. This is not quite what they had intended. Almost 60 years later, with these two worlds living side by side, Creede is a taut microcosm of current national divisions. Guns in classrooms? Pronouns, what now? Weaving intimate storylines of its nuanced residents, tense debates at town meetings, and forays into its rich history, Creede U.S.A. offers a hopeful, humanistic, and urgent glimpse at a community that must continually negotiate its common ground.

Year: 2025

Project Type: Documentary

Evoke’s Role: Creede U.S.A. is a grantee of Evoke Media. Evoke founder Sabrina Merage Naim and Evoke Director of Impact and Storytelling Jamie Newton are Contributing Producers.

In 2025, Creede U.S.A. received Evoke’s Travel Grant, which supported travel for the film’s subjects, Lexi Mead and their family, to attend DOC NYC, experience the screening for the first time with a live audience, and participate in post-screening Q&As.

Meet the filmmakers

Director/Producer
Kahane Corn Cooperman is an Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker and Emmy and Peabody award-winning producer, director, and showrunner. She is known for her focus on emotional, intimate, powerful storytelling and has made films on subjects as wide-ranging as mental health, civility’s role in democracy, life with autism, and ice sculpting. Select credits include the Academy Award-nominated JOE’S VIOLIN, THE ANTIDOTE, THE ME YOU CAN’T SEE, and THE NEW YORKER PRESENTS. Kahane’s work has premiered at festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, HotDocs, DocNYC, and IDFA and can be seen on PBS, HBO, AppleTV+, and Amazon. Kahane started out answering phones at the renowned Maysles Films and was a longtime co-executive producer of THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART along the way.
Producer
Innbo Shim an award-winning film and television producer whose work encompasses themes of social justice and human complexity. She has produced documentary and narrative films with festival premieres at Sundance, Toronto, SXSW, Tribeca, Busan, Rotterdam, Zurich, Venice, and Camerimage. Additionally, she has produced non-fiction projects for Netflix, ABC News Studios, Hulu, CNN Films, Discovery, A&E Films, National Geographic, and PBS. Her recent documentary feature, Patrice: The Movie (TIFF World Premiere; Camden IFF Audience Award) was nominated for a 2025 Independent Spirit Award. Other select credits include AMEND: The Fight for America, a 6-part series for Netflix with Will Smith; When Lambs Become Lions (Oscilloscope Films); We Will Rise: Michelle Obama’s Mission to Educate Girls Around the World (CNN Films); The Notorious Mr. Bout (Sundance World Premiere); and Rachel Getting Married and Jimmy Carter Man From Plains, dir. by Jonathan Demme.

“A reminder of the various things that we’re liable to forget as this country tears itself apart at the seams, most of all the fact that civility still exist in America, there’s no big secret to accomplishing it.”