Contessa Gayles is an award-winning film director, writer, DP, editor and an Emmy-nominated producer. She tells stories about identity, socio-political movement, healing, Black liberation and the radical imagination. Contessa’s award-winning feature documentary-visual album, Songs from the Hole, world premiered at SXSW 2024, where it won the Audience Award, Visions category. She premiered The Debutantes at […]
Cassandra is a Filipina-American producer with a journalism background. Her films have screened at Sundance, Tribeca, and SXSW, among others. She’s collaborated with HBO, NatGeo, NBCUniversal, TLC, A&E, ID, and Science and Travel Channels. She recently produced Invisible Nation (CPH:DOX, IDFA) and Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir (PBS, Netflix), and was showrunner for You Are What […]
Zoe Potkin is an independent producer with a passion for telling powerful stories about women. Potkin was recently Supervising Producer on the documentary Take Care of Maya, which was nominated for two Emmys and released on Netflix on their Global Top 10 chart. Potkin is currently in post-production on a feature documentary she is producing […]
JoeBill Muñoz is a Mexican-American filmmaker and the director of The Strike (Independent Lens, 2025). His independent films have been supported by Sundance, Firelight, New America, and others. As a producer, his work includes The Grab (Hulu), Kids Caught in the Crackdown (Frontline), The New York Times Presents (Hulu), and more. Originally from Texas, he resides […]
Asher Levinthal is a nonfiction filmmaker and former public defender. His directorial debut, Shaken, premiered at DOC NYC and is being expanded into a series. Since, he’s produced and directed projects on cowgirls, satanists, and body farms. Asher co-produced Realm of Satan (Sundance Film Festival 2024) and is currently producing Christopher LaMarca’s Justus and Chase […]
Grace Sin is a filmmaker committed to championing underrepresented voices. She has produced nonfiction content for major networks including HBO, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. Upcoming independently produced projects include BRIC TV comedy web series Problematic; ITVS-funded web series The Grocery List, and several fiction and nonfiction projects helmed by womxn and filmmakers of color in […]
J.M. Harper’s directorial debut is As We Speak (Sundance 2024), a documentary about rap lyrics on trial (Paramount+). A multi-hyphenate documentarian, he edited the Emmy-nominated Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy (Netflix, Sundance 2022); Down a Dark Stairwell (PBS, Criterion Channel); and Don’t Go Tellin’ Your Momma (New York Times OpDocs), which won Jury Awards at Sundance […]
Sierra Neal is an Emmy-nominated editor known for Carlos, Guns N’ Roses: Live in New York, and Jim Henson Idea Man, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Raised in Long Island, NY, she is currently based in Los Angeles.
Miranda Sherman is a producer at OBB Media who builds strong coalitions around compelling characters with incredible stories to create films that transcend and impact that endures. She has most recently produced Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa, directed by Lucy Walker and acquired by Netflix, and Child Star, directed by Demi Lovato and […]
Midwestern native Pamela Ryan is a producer of documentaries, podcasts, and scripted films, including Ramin Bahrani’s If Dreams Were Lightning, Nira Burstein’s Charm Circle, Discovery ID podcast series Mafia Tapes, Boaz Yakin’s Boarding School, and Margaret Brown’s Emmy-nominated, SXSW Grand Jury prize-winning The Great Invisible. Pamela is an Impact Partners Documentary Producing Fellow and an […]