Our Team
The creation of the documentary film THE FIGHT TO FIGHT is an act of service led by women who have served.
Joy Bronson
Director/Producer
Joy served as a Naval Aviator from 1986 to 1993. During her time in service women were prevented from flying combat aircraft or serving on combat ships.
On her first at-sea deployment aboard an oiler, Joy served as the only woman in the aircraft carrier battle group. Later she flew helicopters from an ammunition supply ship providing combat support to the fleet during the Persian Gulf War.
THE FIGHT TO FIGHT is not Joy’s first project as a filmmaker, but it is her first feature-length documentary as producer/director. Following military service, Joy was Managing Editor of the Discovery Wings Channel and Discovery Science Channels where she created and developed science and aviation programming.
As President of Doppelganger Productions she produced and directed short format social justice videos and provided archival research to award-winning documentary films.
Ellen Haring, PhD
Co-Producer
Ellen entered West Point in 1980 shortly after it opened to women. During Ellen’s time at West Point, women were not well received and when she graduated her options were limited to non-combat, support occupations.
In a 30-year Army career, Ellen achieved the rank of Colonel and witnessed more options opening up to women. However, women were still restricted from ground combat units despite many examples of women heroically performing in combat situations.
In 2012, Ellen joined a suit against the Secretary of Defense for sex-based discrimination. In 2013, when the policy was removed, Ellen stepped up to offer support to the first women who volunteered to qualify for ground combat units.
In 2016, Ellen led a team that launched a five-year study to follow women as they integrated ground combat units. This study and its video diaries form the heart of this film.
Richard Hutton
Producer
Since 2015, Richard Hutton has been an independent film consultant/producer. He is a former Executive Director of the University of California Santa Barbara’s Carsey-Wolf Center and Adjunct Professor in Film and Media Studies. Hutton also ran Vulcan Productions and directed Vulcan’s media projects ,where he co-produced Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial, the Emmy Award-winning series Rx for Survival, the Peabody and Grammy Award-winning No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, the Emmy and Grammy Award-winning Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues, and the Peabody Award-winning Black Sky: The Race for Space. His feature films include Where God Left His Shoes, Hard Candy, and Far From Heaven.
Kris Fuhr
Co-Producer
When Kris arrived at West Point, just shy of the year anniversary of the first women graduates, two senior women pulled her aside to give the only advice and support they could offer: “You are on your own – it’s every woman for herself.”
Kris survived an attempted sexual assault while thriving as a cadet, graduating 10th in the Class of 1985. She served in the Army until 1992 as an Intelligence officer and went on to a successful career in brand and film marketing.
Flash forward to the spring of 2015. The first women allowed to attend the U.S. Army Ranger school were facing an uphill battle. Kris decided to provide them with the kind of support she never got at West Point.
Forging relationships with senior leaders at the highest levels of the Army, Kris led efforts to ensure Ranger School stayed true to Army Values as the first women arrived. She continues to support men and women at Ranger School today.
Joe Skorupa
Producer
Joe Skorupa is an award-winning writer and editor who believes a talented writer can apply sharply honed skills to produce sucessful work in multiple media, including print, online, social media, science, research and film. Skorupa spent 25 years working in senior positions in New York City for travel magazines, Boating magazine, and Popular Mechanics. During this time, Joe also wrote two technical books and produced a documentary for ESPN. Joe worked in San Francisco during the dot-com boom and then shifted to tech writing and web production. Joe has spent the last 25 years as an Editorial Director for a tech website, where he wrote an award-winning blog, and was a frequent speaker at global technology conferences.
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Mark Romanov
Co-Director, Director of Photography, and Editor
Mark Romanov is a freelance editor and director of photography who has also produced documentaries. As an environmental advocate, the majority of Mark’s work has been in the natural history space, but he is committed to The Fight to Fight story. Mark’s director of photography credits include: Our Changing Planet Season 4, 2025 – BBC; Yellowstone to Yosemite with Kevin Costner, 2025 – FOX; Deep Look, 2024 – KQED/PBS; Planet California, 2022 – PBS. Other significant work includes Dark Side of the Ocean – Wild Logic; Whale Wisdom – Terra Mater and Curiosity Stream; Stone Cold Takes On America – A&E, Orlando Bloom to the Edge – Peacock, and National Parks with Garth Brooks – National Geographic.
Megan MacKenzie
Expert Advisor
Megan MacKenzie is a professor and the Simons Chair in International Law and Human Security at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Megan is a feminist scholar whose work is broadly focused on the ways that gender matters in the understanding of war and security. Megan has been studying military culture and the challenges of gender integration in the military for over a decade, which includes projects on military sexual violence, the integration of women into combat roles, and military suicide. Her books include: Beyond the Band of Brothers: The U.S. Military and the Myth That Women Can't Fight and Good Soldiers Don't Rape: The Stories We Tell about Military Sexual Violence.
Sean Mullin
Executive Producer
Sean Mullin is the founder of Five By Eight Productions and a filmmaker of both documentaries and character-driven films. He is also a 1997 graduate of West Point and while in the National Guard he was stationed at Ground Zero to serve as a first responder after the attacks of September 11. Sean’s work as a director and writer include such character-driven films as Amira & Sam and Semper Fi and such documentaries as It Ain’t Over, about the career of New York Yankee Yogi Berra, and Brothers on Three, which follows a West Point rugby team defending its national championship. Sean is currently writing and directing the documentary Buzz, which is about former astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Buzz will be released in 2027.