Our Mission Statement

At Being With A Camera Darlene Bellis, Sibylle Meder and Elaine Ocasio create film and media productions in a new way.

Bringing our combined 90 years of film and tv production experience together with our commitment to consciousness and the practices we trained in, we nurture a different culture in front of and behind the camera.

All three of us are Big Leap Coaches certified by the Hendricks Institute. Elaine is a Licensed Spiritual Practitioner and Darlene is on the faculty of Foundation for Conscious Living.

We are driven by a deep curiosity about the inner workings of human experience — the invisible forces that shape how we move, connect, create, and evolve. Our creative work often orbits the intersection of consciousness, embodiment, and transformation.

Success, to us, looks like resonance. If the audience watching our films not only understands something new but feels something different in their own bodies — a sense of expanded possibility, a curiosity about their own aliveness — then, we’ve done our job.

Portraying how people inspire others in creating their lives as a celebration of deep connection and caring, that soothes some of our most pressing uncertainties and provides insight and spark for moving forward, is the through-line of our work.

We are creating films and media projects that embody new stories of how humans can relate to each other and create a world in which we truly want to live.


Being With A Camera (BWAC): a temporary shelter in nature that protect us from the elements.

Meet Our Team

Sibylle Meder, Being With A Camera Director

Sibylle Meder

Producer, Director, Camera

MA in Theatre and Film Studies from Freie Universität Berlin, Filmmaking Certificate from the New York Film Academy, director of critically acclaimed feature length documentary The Island Bus (2013) and Something Transcendent (2025), co-director of dance and poetry film Song of Myself, Vol.II (2020), Big Leap Coach certified by the Hendricks Institute and on the team developing the Hendricks Institute's seminar "Cultivating New Stories For Humanity". Actress (Animal, dir: Sophia Exarchou, 2023), cinematographer, editor and author of two short story collections. Since 2004, Sibylle Meder works in the film industry as a director, camera operator, and editor.


Darlene Bellis

Darlene Bellis

Producer

Worked in a plethora of roles in production and post-production in film and TV for over 30 years. On the faculty of the Hendricks Institute's Restoring Resourcefulness program and certified Big Leap Coach.


Elaine Ocasio

Producer

Worked in television for 30 years. Producer-director of award-winning documentary Healing The Wounds Of Incest. Certified Big Leap Coach.