Zac Manuel is an award winning director and cinematographer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Zac’s work in documentary draws from complex legacies of Southern identity, with particular interest in the impacts of history and inheritance on Black communities.
Yoni Golijov is an Oscar-nominated and Independent Spirit Award-winning producer interested in collective decision-making, investigative journalism, films about labor and labor in films. Recent work includes All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, When We Fight, Parallel Construction, Circles, and Terror Contagion. He is a 2023 Impact Partners Producers Fellow, a member of New Day Films and the Documentary […]
Tarek Albaba is an Arab American filmmaker with over 20 years of experience producing television series, branded content and specials for networks and studios. He invested his production expertise and his passion for social justice in his first feature documentary, 36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime (Official Selection, DOC NYC 2023). His grit, talent […]
Sierra Urich is an Iranian-American award-winning filmmaker and interdisciplinary visual artist. Her first feature, Joonam, world premiered in competition at 2023 Sundance Film Festival, and won the Nesnadny + Schwartz Portrait Documentary Award at Cleveland International Film Festival, and the Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature at Bentonville Film Festival. She works professionally as an editor […]
Samantha Knowles is an award-winning director. She won a Cinema Eye Honors Award and an NAACP Image Award for the HBO series Black and Missing. Her recent work includes an episode of a forthcoming civil rights series for HBO, the New York Times Op-Doc “The Blue Line” and the HBO documentary “How We Get Free”, […]
Rebecca Adorno Davila is an editor whose strength resides in crafting stories in an immersive way. Her work has screened at festivals around the world. She was one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Film, a Cinema Eye Honors and IDA Awards nominee. She was also a recipient of Sundance Film Festival’s Inaugural Jonathan […]
Rebecca Stern is an Emmy-nominated documentary director and producer. She directed and produced Well Groomed (SXSW ’19, HBO Sports), and directs and produces documentary series, including HBO’s Level Playing Field and AMC’s Smugshot. Additional producing credits include Battleground, Snowy, Deerfoot of the Diamond, Tre Maison Dasan, and Netizens. Rebecca is a 2019 Impact Partners Fellow and a DPA Board Representative.
Sundance award-winning cinematographer Rachel Beth Anderson began her career working in conflict zones across North Africa and the Middle East. Anderson’s focus on the Middle East extended to her shooting award-winning documentaries E-Team, and her directorial debut, First to Fall. Recently, Anderson directed and DP’ed HBO’s Great Photo, Lovely Life, and is currently co-directing a multi-part series for […]
Rachael Dyer, an award-winning director, producer, and journalist, has made an indelible mark on global entertainment and media. Her work has been featured on premium streaming platforms and broadcasters such as Netflix, Apple TV+, Paramount+, HBO Max, Hulu, Disney, Peacock, Oxygen and BBC. Notable highlights include her critically acclaimed documentary Pay or Die (2023).
Nicolas Weissman is an Emmy winning documentary filmmaker and co-founder of Vacationland Films. Shorts include Diamond Cutter / Telling The Story of Slavery (New Yorker), Am I Next / Thomas Fire Architect (TIME), and We The Power (Patagonia). Features include Minutemen, For Akheem (PBS), Havana Libre, and A Wonderful Kingdom. He is currently producing Row of Life about ocean rower Angela Madsen.