Natalie Rae is a filmmaker from Vancouver, Canada. Making her first feature documentary over an eight-year journey, she debuted Daughters at the Sundance Film Festival, where she won the Audience Award and Festival Favorite. Daughters was picked up by Netflix and will be released in August 2024.
Katie Mathews is a filmmaker working across documentary and fiction. Her collaborative approach is focused on creating spaces for truth and transformation. Recent projects include feature documentary Roleplay (SXSW 2024) and narrative short Dark Moon (Vimeo Staff Pick 2022). She is a Princess Grace Award winner, and her work can be found on Teen Vogue, […]
A self-proclaimed black lesbian myth, Sophia Nahli Allison is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker, self-portrait photographer, and artist. She explores themes of identity, flight, and memory to document the space between reality and dreams. She is a 2020 USA Fellowship awardee in film and has been an artist-in-residence at Black Rock Senegal, MacDowell, and The Camargo […]
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 […]