Ruchi has been producing documentaries for over a decade and is the foundress of Solani Media. Works include Emmy winning We Could Be King; The Case Against Adnan Syed; hybrid doc This World is Not My Own (SXSW 2023); and Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow (DOCNYC 2023). Ruchi was a member of DOCNYC’s 40 Under 40 list […]
Michael Graversen is an award winning danish director and graduate from the UK’s National Film and TV School. He has for a decade made noumerous documentaries dealing with exile, identity and migration and has been screened and won awards at a.o. CPH:DOX, IDFA, DocPoint, Clermont-Ferrand, Thessaloniki and DOC NYC.
Violet is an Emmy winning filmmaker, a doc branch member of AMPAS and an adjunct professor at Columbia University. She has directed, produced and executive produced 13 documentaries including the Oscar Shortlisted HIDDEN LETTERS with broadcast in 15 countries. Her producing credits include DEAR MOTHER, I MEANT TO WRITE ABOUT DEATH, SINGING IN THE WILDERNESS, […]
Meredith Kaulfers is an Emmy-winning Producer and EVP of Current Production of Imagine Documentaries. Recent projects include DADS, Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band, Light & Magic, the Emmy-winning Who Are You Charlie Brown? and the Emmy-nominated Judy Blume Forever, Ron Howard’s We Feed People.
David Winn is Head of the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, a national competition recognizing excellence in news and documentary across all broadcast and streaming platforms. Mr. Winn directs all aspects of the administration of the competition, from the writing of the rules through the processing and judging of over 2,300 entries per year.
Sean Weiner is a film producer and artist community builder based in the Lower Hudson Valley of New York. Sean is the Co-Director of UFO, a filmmaker support organization built upon a philosophy of inclusion and collaboration that provides short film labs, feature film residencies, and grants opportunities to early career and experienced independent filmmakers. […]
Melanie Vi Levy, Director & Producer is a documentary editor, producer and director based in New York. As a documentary filmmaker, she was a lead editor on the NEH-funded feature-film, Hillbilly (Winner, Best Documentary LA Film Festival). She has contributed as editor to feature films including What She Said, The Art of Pauline Kael (Berlinale, Telluride Premiere), […]
Nancy Solomon is a senior reporter and the founding managing editor of New Jersey Public Radio, which won a 2014 Peabody Award for Chris Christie, White House Ambitions and the Abuse of Power. Her latest project is the podcast, Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery. Solomon fell in love with radio reporting and […]
Alexa Danner oversees day-to-day business and operations strategy across the NBC News podcast portfolio and editorially supervises NBC News Studios original podcasts. She served as Executive Producer on both Grapevine and the award-winning Letters from Sing Sing podcasts. Before transitioning to audio, she was an EP/showrunner/director whose docuseries credits while at NBC include the acclaimed […]
Josh Dean is a journalist, author, and co-founder of the acclaimed podcast production studio Campside Media, whose first original podcast, The Clearing, was called a “new true-crime classic” by The New Yorker and “astonishing…an immense achievement” by The Guardian, and spent nearly two months at #1 on the Apple podcast charts. He co-created Campside’s first […]