Ruchi Mital is an Emmy-winning producer/filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. Her films include We Could Be King, Sky Ladder: The Art Of Cai Guo-Qiang and This is Personal, both of which premiered at Sundance, and The Case Against Adnan Syed for HBO. She is currently producing a hybrid documentary/fiction feature, This World is Not My Own.
Holly Meehl is a creative producer on award winning documentary and narrative features and short films. Her recent projects include Jacinta (directed by Jessica Earnshaw), For the Birds (directed by Richard Miron) and In Reality (directed by Ann Lupo). She is a 2020 Impact Partners Documentary Producing Fellow and based in Los Angeles, California.
Elaine McMillion Sheldon is an Academy Award-nominated, and Emmy and Peabody-winning documentary filmmaker. She is the director of two Netflix Original Documentaries – Heroin(e) and Recovery Boys – that explore America’s opioid crisis. She was named a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2018 USA Fellow by United States Artists, and one of the Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. […]
Clare Major is a cinematographer and documentary filmmaker who specializes in handheld observational camerawork. Her recent cinematography credits include Belly of the Beast (HRW 2020), Ahead of the Curve (Frameline 2020) and We Are the Radical Monarchs (SXSW 2019). Based in Oakland, California, Clare is currently working on documentaries set in California, Mississippi, Italy, and Haiti.
Emelie Mahdavian is completing Bitterbrush and developing a project on the creative process of Alonzo King Lines Ballet. Previously a professional dancer with a Ph.D., she produced, wrote, and edited Midnight Traveler, which won a Peabody Award, a Special Jury Prize at Sundance and was nominated for a Gotham Award. She is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Luke Lorentzen is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and co-founder of Hedgehog Films with Kellen Quinn. His most recent film, Midnight Family, tells the story of a family-run ambulance business in Mexico City and was shortlisted for the 2020 Oscars. He is also one of the directors and producers of the Netflix series, Last Chance U. With […]
Elizabeth Lo is an award-winning filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. Elizabeth was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, Cannes Lions’ New Directors’ Showcase, and Locarno and NYFF’s Artist Academy. Her debut feature documentary, Stray, won the Top Jury Prize at Hot Docs after premiering at Tribeca, and will be released by Magnolia […]
Daniel B. Levin’s work spans documentaries, narratives and commercials, where he has served roles including director, producer and cinematographer. Levin’s latest work includes serving as the executive producer and cinematographer on the series I Promise, executive produced by LeBron James and released on Quibi in 2020. Levin is currently directing a feature documentary on the groundbreaking […]
Alexandra Lazarowich is an award-winning Cree producer, director and screenwriter from Northern Alberta, Canada. Her documentary Fast Horse premiered and won the Special Jury Award for Directing at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. She is the co-founder of COUSIN COLLECTIVE and currently the series producer for the CBC’s multi-award-winning comedy documentary series Still Standing.
Jessica Kingdon is a filmmaker named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Her upcoming feature Untitled PRC Project is supported by organizations including SFFILM, Chicken & Egg, Cinereach, Sundance, Firelight, and Field of Vision. She also directed Commodity City, Routine Island and It’s Coming.