América is directed, produced and edited by Erick Stoll & Chase Whiteside, with Stoll additionally serving as cinematographer.

In 2018, Stoll and Whiteside were featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Together, they co-founded the political web series New Left Media, which documented conservative and progressive movements during the Obama presidency; and co-directed the short Lifelike, a dispassionate reconstruction of the taxidermic process that premiered at True/False and won Best Doc Short at DocuFest Atlanta.