R.J. Cutler is an award-winning director and producer of documentary films and television series. His work includes the Oscar-nominated The War Room, Emmy-nominated A Perfect Candidate, Sundance Award-winning The September Issueand the Peabody-winning Listen To Me Marlon. Recent credits include Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, Belushi, Dear… and Supreme Models, as well as […]
Mark Becker is a director, story consultant and editor of documentaries. He is currently directing a documentary series about the battle over Amazing Live Sea Monkeys (A24 Films). He co-directed and edited ART AND CRAFT (2014), and directed PRESSURE COOKER (2008) and ROMÁNTICO (2005, Sundance and Spirit Awards nominee).
Tyler is a Sundance Editing and Cinema Eye award winning editor whose projects include Welcome to Chechnya, the Oscar-Nominated How to Survive a Plague, and Michael Moore’s Where to Invade Next. His Bacon number is 2.
Katja Esson is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker based in Miami. FERRY TALES (HBO 2004). SKYDANCER (PBS 2011). POETRY OF RESILIENCE (Nomination Cinema for Peace 2012). BACKROADS USA and AMERICAN RIVERS (PBS 2018). A Humanities Fellow at Kansas University, her films have screened at MoMa, the Smithsonian, supported by NEA, Knight Foundation, ITVS, IDA, NYSCA, Redford […]
Mary Manhardt is a veteran documentary film editor, professor and consultant, specializing in verite. Her credits range from Liz Garbus and Jonathan Stack’s The Farm in 1998 to Carol Dysinger’s Learning to Skateboard in a War Zone (If You’re a Girl), Best Documentary Short at the 2020 Academy Awards.
Su Kim is an Emmy® and two-time Peabody Award-winning producer. She is an acclaimed documentary producer whose credits include the Oscar®-nominated HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING THIS EVENING, FREE CHOL SOO LEE and MIDNIGHT TRAVELER. Su is a former Women at Sundance fellow and is the recipient of the 2022 Sundance Amazon Studios Nonfiction Producers Award. […]
Dawn Porter is an American documentary filmmaker and the founder of the production company Trilogy Films. Her award-winning films include Gideon’s Army (2013), about three black public defenders working in the southern United States, Spies of Mississippi (2014), about the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission (MSSC) efforts to preserve segregation during the 50s and 60s, Trapped, […]
Debra McClutchy is a NYC based documentary filmmaker/archival producer. She co-originated and co-directed THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT (2022), nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short and distributed by Netflix. Debra co-produced the feature documentary THE BOOKSELLERS (2019), distributed by Greenwich Entertainment. For over a decade, she was a senior creative member at Oscilloscope […]
Nick Canfield is an NYC-based filmmaker. He got his start working alongside legendary documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles, developing an intimate vérité style. His camera work can be seen in docs such as Iris, Born to Fly, In Transit, and Making a Murderer. His first feature, The Reverend, won the DOC NYC 2021 Audience Award.
Aurora Brachman is an award-winning documentary director and cinematographer. Through patient and poetic storytelling her films explore narratives of intimate relationships within families and communities. Her short documentaries, including Club Quarantine, Joychild, Still Waters, and The Gallery That Destroys All Shame, have been acquired by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and POV; shortlisted […]