Director and Executive Producer Hector Abaunza and artist, producer and host Amanda Eliasch 

bring their distinct creative backgrounds to The Truth Will Out.

Paris-trained filmmaker Abaunza directs the film, shaping its cinematography, editing and visual language across more than three years of international production. As the project evolved, he pioneered an innovative integration of AI-assisted historical reconstruction, using emerging technology not as a substitute for traditional filmmaking, but as a creative tool to imagine fragments of the Elizabethan world for which no moving images could ever exist. These sequences were conceived and integrated into the film’s broader cinematic language, blending contemporary interviews, historical locations, archival material and visual reconstruction.

Eliasch—an acclaimed artist, poet and filmmaker, and recipient of the Lena Wertmüller Prize for her debut film The Gun, The Cake and The Butterfly—serves as Producer, Art Director and Host, guiding the film’s conversations and contributing to its artistic presentation.

Together, their work brings cinema, historical inquiry and new visual technologies into a bold exploration of Shakespeare, authorship and the enduring question of who controls the stories history leaves behind.

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Line Producer / Research

Yvonne Cheal
Line Producer Yvonne Cheal brings 40 years of experience across documentaries, HETV, independent cinema, and large-scale studio features. A former AFCI Film Commissioner at the South Wales Film Commission (1994–2003), she has since built an extensive career as a location manager and scout. A member of the Location Managers Guild International, Yvonne also works as a researcher and project manager—bringing deep, long-standing expertise in the Shakespeare Authorship Question and Oxfordian scholarship to The Truth Will Out.

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