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 […]
Argentine filmmaker living in New York, chair of NYU Tisch Grad Film. She directed the feature films Hermanas, The Last Summer of la Boyita and Nobody’s Watching, the doc series Parana, biography of a river and Aerocene, sustainable utopia and the upcoming fictional series Minimum Wage for Paramount+.
Amanda Spain is the Vice President of Longform Acquisitions for MSNBC Films. Revitalized under MSNBC President Rashida Jones and Amanda Spain, MSNBC Films, distributes a slate of dynamic documentaries, including PERIODICAL, LOVE & THE CONSTITUTION, THE TURNING POINT series, Executive Produced by Trevor Noah, and the award-winning PAPER & GLUE, a project by acclaimed French […]
Giselle “Hush” Bailey is a Jamaican-American director whose work is explosively visual and metaphorical. She has been awarded the William Greaves Grant from Firelight Media, a fellowship with Concordia Studios and was featured on DOC NYC’s 2022 40 under 40 list. Her directorial portfolio includes work for Netflix, Hulu & HBO.
Irena Kovarova is a film programmer, producer and writer with a focus on European and independent cinema. Reaching from New York to the entire North America and the Czech Republic, she’s been curating and producing touring and festival programs for nearly 25 years, since 2013 for her own outfit, Comeback Company.
José F Rodriguez is a Senior Film Programmer at the Tribeca Festival, overseeing the festival’s Documentary Screening Committee and helping to determine the feature documentaries and fiction features that are pre-screened, shortlisted and invited for the festival. He has also directed the short films ADOLESCENCIA (2017 DOC NYC), Mama,mama (2018) and JUNGLE X (2022).
Lynne Sachs is a filmmaker and poet living in Brooklyn. Her work explores the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences. Lynne embraces hybrid forms in her essay films, experimental documentaries, and performances. With each project, she investigates the connection between the body, the camera, and the materiality of film itself.
David Siev is an emerging Cambodian-Mexican-American filmmaker celebrated for his debut film, BAD AXE. Set in his family’s Michigan restaurant, the film addresses the pandemic, racial injustice, and generational trauma, winning awards at SXSW, from the Critics Choice Association, and a spot on the shortlist for the 95th Academy Awards. Siev’s unique perspective in blending […]