An NYC native, Lesley Steele is an editor, director and 16mm cinematographer. Her visual language in both digital and analog reflects the juxtaposition of formats to explore new meaning in the moving image. Her work has been shown at Blackstar Film Festival and the NYC Independent Film Festival. In 2019 she was a fellow in […]
Jiayan “Jenny” Shi is a Chicago, Illinois-based documentary filmmaker. Her debut documentary Finding Yingying won the Special Jury Recognition for Breakthrough Voice at 2020 SXSW. Jenny is a graduate of Kartemquin’s Diverse Voices In Docs program and a fellow of the Inaugural Women at Sundance Adobe Fellowship.
Zach Seivers is an Emmy award-winning sound designer from North Carolina, now based in Los Angeles, California. His most recent work can be heard in the unscripted series We’re Here (HBO), the feature documentary Ask Dr. Ruth (Hulu), archival docuseries The Decades (CNN), and true crime docuseries The Keepers (Netflix).
Anya Rous (she/her) is an Emmy-winning Producer and Co-Founder of Multitude Films, an independent company dedicated to culture change through nonfiction storytelling. Her recent films include It’s Only Life After All (Sundance 2023); the Emmy-winning Peacock Original Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (Tribeca 2022); and the Critics Choice–nominated Netflix Original Pray Away […]
Evan Rosenfeld is a Los Angeles, California-based filmmaker and executive. He is the creator, showrunner and co-director of the LeBron James produced Warriors of Liberty City, as well as the PGA Award-winning and Emmy-nominated VICE World of Sports. His other works include: ESPN’s The U and Broke, HBO’s Kareem: Minority of One, 60 Minutes, and Dawg Fight.
David Osit is an Emmy Award-winning director, editor and composer based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the director of Mayor, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Full Frame Film Festival, and will be theatrically released at the end of 2020. He is an alumnus of the Sundance Nonfiction Director’s Residency.
Kellen Quinn is a producer at Hedgehog Films, a production company he runs with Luke Lorentzen. His credits include Garrett Bradley’s Time, Daniel Hymanson’s So Late So Soon, Noah Hutton’s In Silico, Viktor Jakovleski’s Brimstone & Glory and Luke Lorentzen’s Midnight Family. In 2017 and 2018, Kellen was a Sundance Documentary Creative Producing fellow. He is based in New York City.
Lance Oppenheim is a filmmaker from South Florida, now based in New York City. His films have been screened at film festivals across the world including Sundance, Rotterdam, Tribeca, True/False, and featured at the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian. Lance was a 2019 Sundance Ignite Fellow, named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces […]
Tommy Oliver is a cinematographer, director, editor, producer, writer and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles, California. His past projects include producing the Sundance winner Kinyarwanda and The Perfect Guy, which opened as the #1 film in the country. 1982, a film he also wrote and directed, premiered at TIFF and he is co-creator and executive producer of the OWN […]
Codie Elaine Oliver is a film and television producer, as well as a Partner at Confluential Films, a production company she shares with her husband Tommy Oliver. She co-created and currently directs Black Love, a two-time NAACP Image Awards-nominated series going into its fourth season. The show debuted as the most-viewed unscripted series in the history […]