Sofia Bohdanowicz is an award-winning Toronto filmmaker. Her films have been showcased at BFI, NYFF, Viennale, Berlinale, Locarno, The Harvard Film Archive, and TIFF. Named one of the 22 Most Influential People in Canadian Film, her latest film, Measures for a Funeral, will premiere in TIFF’s Centrepiece program. Her work is available on the Criterion […]
Paige Bethmann is a Haudenosaunee director and producer. Her credits include Candace Parker: Unapologetic and Native America: Women Rule. Her forthcoming feature film and directorial debut Remaining Native has been supported by IDA, Points North Institute, Sundance Edit and Story Lab, Perspective Fund, and Doc Society. Paige is a 4th World Media Lab Fellow and […]
Francesca Sharper (she/her) is an emerging Brooklyn-based editor. After starting her career in ads and reality TV, she has spent the last six years focusing on documentary storytelling. Her credits include the 2021 Peabody winner High on the Hog, the 2022 SXSW Grand Jury winner Master of Light, and the 2024 Emmy-nominated film Stamped From […]
Jordan Dykstra is a Brooklyn-based performer and BMI Award-winning composer. His film scores have been heard at numerous film festivals such as Cannes, Sundance, Rotterdam, Tribeca, TIFF, DOC NYC, and CPH:DOX, amongst others. Dykstra scored the Oscar and BAFTA-winning film 20 Days in Mariupol, which the Wall Street Journal said was “aided greatly by an […]
Samantha Curley is an award-winning documentary producer and creative entrepreneur based in Los Angeles. She is the Co-Founder of Level Ground, a collaboratively-led artist collective and production company. The first two films she produced, Framing Agnes (2022) and Union (2024), both premiered at Sundance. She graduated from Northwestern and is a 2023 Impact Partners Fellow […]
Mars Verrone is a filmmaker, musician, and educator from Los Angeles, CA. Their first feature as producer, Union (dir. Stephen Maing & Brett Story), premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and won a special jury prize. They are a Sundance Producers Fellow, NBC Original Voices Artist Mentor and Fellow, Producers Guild of America Fellow, […]
Maya Tippett is an Emmy-winning editor currently living in upstate New York. Her work has screened at Sundance, SXSW, DOC NYC, Hot Docs, Full Frame, and more. Her most recent film Eno, a groundbreaking generative documentary about visionary musician and artist Brian Eno, premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
Mahrya MacIntire is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. Her work explores topics related to community (re)building and trauma healing from an embodied perspective. Producer credits include An American Bombing (2024), The Slow Hustle (2021), and Baltimore Rising (2017), all for HBO. She is currently in production on her feature directorial debut.
Michael is an Emmy and PGA Award-nominated filmmaker and cinematographer. When at NYU, he developed a love for documentaries. This led to filming January 6 for Unprecedented, storm chasing for Photographer, and over 1,200 interviews for Humans of New York: The Series. With roughly 40 documentary cinematography credits and counting, Michael will make his directorial […]
Will N. Miller is a Sundance, Emmy, and Peabody Award-winning producer and editor. His work focuses on environmental conflict, migration, and human rights. His films include Squid Fleet (Visions du Réel 2023), The Territory (Sundance 2022), Nuisance Bear (TIFF 2021), and Unsafe Passage (Guardian Documentaries), among others. He runs the production company Documist with his […]