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.
Naimah Jabali-Nash is a director and producer whose work has earned her five Emmy Awards, five PGA Awards and two Peabody Awards. Jabali-Nash is dedicated to telling stories that give marginalized groups a platform to be seen and heard, which is why she created Fearless Minds Productions to fearlessly push the boundaries of storytelling with […]
Max Lowe is an award winning, critically acclaimed filmmaker with projects having been featured at DOC NYC, Tribeca, SXSW and Cannes. His first feature doc Torn premiered at Telluride Film Festival and landed on Disney+ in the spring of 2022, and his newest work “”Camp Courage”” is streaming on Netflix. Max has found a niche […]
Laura Tomaselli is a filmmaker who believes in the power of storytelling. Lakota Nation Vs. United States, her most recent film, premiered at Tribeca in 2022 and has won multiple festival awards. The recipient of a Sundance Documentary Fund fellowship, Tomaselli also received a Cinema Eye Award Nomination for editing MLK/FBI, which was shortlisted for the 2021 […]