Luther Clement-Lam got his start in film editing viral rap videos. His award-winning directing, editing, and cinematography work has screened worldwide. Among his many projects, he directed the Cinema Eye Honors-nominated and Academy Award-shortlisted Stay Close. Luther is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Victoria Chalk is a British-Chinese editor in Los Angeles, California. Her credits include the PBS series Asian Americans, and PJ Raval’s documentary Call Her Ganda. She’s currently editing Sara Terry’s documentary That’s How We Roll. Victoria is the 2019 Karen Schmeer Editing Fellow and an organizer with A-DOC and Across The Cut, an intersectional roster for editors.
Maxx Caicedo is a director/producer for the digital production company Vitamin in San Francisco, California. A second-generation Colombian-American, he studied at Tufts University, where he received his B.A. in political science and English literature before entering the Peace Corps to teach English and biology in Mozambique. In 2012, he joined Lake Research Partners as a political […]
Jordan Maelyn Smith is a film critic, public librarian and musician who has been working in various capacities with DOC NYC since 2015. She currently edits the weekly Monday Memo and Weekend Watch newsletters. Her published work focusing mainly on documentary cinema has appeared at Senses of Cinema, Nonfics, Stranger Than Fiction, IONcinema, and Influence […]
Dana Krieger has been with DOC NYC since it all began in 2010. She has spent the past 15 years producing and creating large scale, high profile events, ranging from major film festivals to the Olympics. Dana completed her undergraduate studies at Georgetown University and earned a Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University.
Samah Ali is a festival and inflight entertainment programmer based in New York City. She is the Video Programming Manager at Stellar Entertainment, curating movies and television shows for airlines around the world, and consults on DOC NYC’s Short List: Shorts. In her spare time, Samah sits on the Board of Directors at The Black […]
DeWitt has worked in the film industry for the last 18 years in all aspects of production, post-production, and film restoration. He has been with DOC NYC since year one and became an Associate Programmer of Shorts in 2017. Witt has also worked with the programming and technical teams of the Miami, Montclair, Nantucket, and […]
Brandon Harrison began at DOC NYC as screener, before joining the programming team in 2019. He has curated features, shorts, and series at Brooklyn Film Festival, Nashville, and Tribeca, while also serving on various documentary juries and committees. He is currently a Development Executive at Words+Pictures.
Jessie Fairbanks has been involved in producing film, television, and live events for over 13 years; she now curates film festivals year-round. In addition to programming for DOC NYC, she is the Director of Programming at Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, and programs for the Tribeca, MountainFilm, Woods Hole, and Nashville Film Festivals. Jessie consults […]
Karen McMullen is the formerly served as Festival Director/Head of Programming at UrbanworldFormally, Lead Curator for New Voices in Black Cinema , Head of Programming for TIDE Film Festival, Features Programmer at Tribeca Festival and on the programming team at Sundance Film Festival. She has been a juror at Pan African, Trinidad + Tobago, Thessaloniki […]