Alma Herrera-Pazmiño is a documentary editor and DJ from San Francisco, CA, based out of NYC. Her editing credits include All Up In the Biz which premiered at Tribeca 2023 and Louis Armstrong’s Black and Blues (Apple TV 2022). Alma has been awarded various fellowships and is motivated to document the rituals at the intersection of joy and grief.
Alexis Johnson is an Emmy-winning film editor whose work has received distribution from HBO, MGM+, Neon, Netflix, RTÉ, and Showtime, and has screened at festivals around the world, including Sundance, Berlinale, SXSW, and NYFF. Her past credits include the Peabody-nominated Kingdom of Silence and Netflix’s “Global Top 10 Film” Money Shot. She is currently in development on her […]
Alex Schmider is an Emmy®, Peabody, and Critics Choice Awards recognized producer and the Director of Transgender Representation at GLAAD. A member of the Producers Guild of America and the Television Academy, his producing credits include Changing The Game (Hulu), Disclosure (Netflix), Framing Agnes (Kino Lorber), Stay On Board: The Leo Baker Story (Netflix) and Chasing Chasing Amy.
Alex Pritz is a documentary filmmaker and co-founder of the production company Documist. Recently, Alex directed The Territory, which premiered at Sundance 2022 where it won the World Cinema Audience Award and a Special Jury Award for Documentary Craft. The Territory was shortlisted for the 2023 Academy Awards, nominated for three primetime Emmys, and won a Peabody Award.
Adrián Gutiérrez is a Mexican documentary filmmaker and archival producer. His credits include Archival Producer, Chavela (Netflix) and Emmy-winner The Last Out (POV), Associate Producer, Siqueiros: Walls of Passion (PBS), and Field Producer, Enemies of the State (IFC Films) and Kingdom of Shadows (POV). In 2022, he created Past Tense, a documentary production company, film […]
Abby Ellis is an award-winning director who makes films about the moments and institutions that shape us. She directed the Emmy and Peabody-nominated Flint’s Deadly Water (PBS Frontline), Shots Fired (PBS Frontline), and produced the docu-series America Divided, executive produced by Shonda Rhimes and Norman Lear. She is currently in production on her first independent […]
Sarah is a documentary producer and nonfiction television director whose credits include The Food Network, TLC, MTV, Netflix, and Max. She earned an MFA in Social Documentary Film from the School of Visual Arts. Sarah is Secretary of the board of the Documentary Producers Alliance and co-chairs the ethics subcommittee. She lives in NYC with […]
Creating culturally representative cinema, and equitable professional spaces for underrepresented filmmakers, through collaboration and community. Prerana Thakurdesai’s work highlights South Asian and end-of-life stories. She’s the producer of the upcoming documentary, The Last Ecstatic Days. Her previous work has aired on World Channel, History Channel among others. While in India, she produced the acclaimed series, […]
Fostering awareness and advocacy of the rights of nonprofit workers and BIPOC filmmakers to build sustainability in the industry. Kristal Sotomayor is a bilingual Latinx filmmaker, journalist and curator based in Philadelphia. They serve as the Editor-In-Chief of the cinéSPEAK Journal and Festival Programmer for SFFILM and Frameline. Formerly, they were the Programming Director for […]
Creating pathways to prioritize care in documentary filmmaking and impact campaigns. Stephanie Palumbo is a documentary impact strategist, film producer, and organizer. She is Director of Film Impact and Innovation at Peace is Loud, where she helps the documentary field prioritize care for film protagonists. She also oversees filmmaker workshops and impact campaigns that use […]