Daniyel Turner is a film festival strategist specializing in project management and communications. He has worked with organizations like Aspen Film, SFFILM, and Sundance to streamline operations and create memorable experiences for audiences. As a co-founder of Drunken Film Fest Oakland, a free pop-up festival bringing world-class short films to bars, he champions unconventional spaces […]
Edna Alburquerque has worked on award-winning documentary films for more than 15 years, including over a decade with Pangloss Films. She’s worked on projects ranging from an investigation of the international gold trade to the use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons, to the Hubble Space Telescope. She produced Mysteries of Mental Illness – a […]
Caroline Waterlow is an Oscar, Emmy & Peabody award-winning documentary film producer based in New York City. Waterlow produced the ESPN Films documentary “O.J.: Made in America”, directed & produced by Ezra Edelman. Waterlow co-founded Laylow Pictures, a Brooklyn-based production company with Edelman. Laylow recently produced the 4-part HBO docuseries “STAX: Soulsville, U.S.A.” about the […]
Margot Station Co-founder Adam Gibbs produced the upcoming HBO original documentary Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary, which is premiering at DocNYC 2024. He most recently produced The Last Movie Stars, a 6 part documentary film about Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, directed by Ethan Hawke and Executive produced by Martin Scorsese for CNN Films and HBOMax. […]
Geoff O’Brien is a documentary editor and producer. Most recently, he has been leader editor for the Emmy award winning FX documentary series, The New York Times Presents, including episodes Framing Britney Spears, The Killing of Breonna Taylor and The Legacy of J Dilla. His work can also be seen on National Geographic, PBS Frontline, […]
Muta’Ali is an award-winning film director known for acclaimed documentaries such as MoviePass, MovieCrash; Cassius X: Becoming Ali; Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn; and Life’s Essentials with Ruby Dee. His 2021 Gracie Award winning documentary short Hear Her Voice showcased the disparity in maternal mortality affecting the black community.
Moses Bwayo is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker originally from Bududa, Uganda. In 2016, Moses started his own production company in Kampala, and the following year began shooting and co-directing Bobi Wine: The People’s President. During the production, Moses was arrested, imprisoned, shot and threatened, forcing his relocation to the United States. In 2024, Bobi Wine: […]
Kate Davis is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker for Traffic Stop, which also won DOC NYC’s Short Documentary Competition. Davis has won Peabodys for The Newburgh Sting and Stonewall Uprising, an Emmy for Jockey, and a NAACP Award for Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland. Southern Comfort won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize […]
Maxim Pozdorovkin is an award-winning director and writer based in New York. He has directed seven feature documentaries and multiple shorts. Maxim holds a PhD from Harvard University for a dissertation on early propaganda and is a frequent media commentator on Russian politics.
Academy Award, BAFTA, WGA and Emmy nominee Ramin Bahrani is the Iranian-American writer, director and producer of such films as Man Push Cart, Chop Shop, 99 Homes and The White Tiger. His debut feature documentary 2nd Chance premiered at Sundance and was released by Bleeker Street and Showtime.