Sara Wasserman is a documentary film editor living in Brooklyn, New York. She has worked with clients all around the world, and her films can be seen on Netflix, HBO, PBS, Univision, and Fusion. She has worked on many diverse projects throughout her eleven years in the industry, including as Assistant Editor on Lenox Hill […]
Rebecca Landsberry-Baker is a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program grantee, Ford Foundation JustFilms grantee, and a 2022 NBC Original Voices Fellow. She is a 2022 Gotham Documentary Feature Lab Fellow and was selected to the Harvard Shorenstein News Leaders Fall 2022 cohort. She is an enrolled citizen of the Muscogee Nation and the executive director […]
Melinda Maerker (she/her) has worked as a visual storyteller across media. Her current project (as director/co-producer) is the documentary, We Live Here: The Midwest–an authentic portrait of LGBTQ+ families in America’s heartland.
An Academy Award®-winning short documentary director and entrepreneur, Ben Proudfoot is the creative force behind Breakwater Studios. The studio’s work has been recognized by the Academy Awards®, The Emmys, The Peabody Awards, Critics Choice Documentary Awards, The James Beard Awards, the Sundance Film Festival, Telluride, and the Tribeca Film Festival among others. Proudfoot was named […]
Troy Herion is an Emmy-winning and Cinema Eye-nominated composer, editor, and producer whose scoring has garnered critical acclaim. Films like 306 Hollywood, The Hottest August, and Bulletproof are just a few of Herion’s extensive list of high-profile projects. His films have screened at Sundance, Tribeca, Toronto, the Berlinale, SXSW, HotDocs,The New York Film Festival, True/False […]
David Clayton Miller recently produced the upcoming Hulu Originals documentary entitled We Live Here: The Midwest through his DCMDocumentary banner. He is also a professional photographer having shot for Dolce & Gabbana, the Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, Architectural Digest and other fashion and media outlets. He previously produced two independent feature films, Defying Gravity and […]
Shayla Harris is an independent director. She recently produced and directed Making Black America and The Black Church with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. for PBS. She directed Let Noor Run, a documentary short for ESPN’s W. Studios and was a producer on Who Killed Malcolm X?, an Emmy-nominated doc series for Netflix. Before her documentary […]
Kristen Lovell has been an advocate in the trans community for over 20 years. As an actress, she appeared in Random Acts of Flyness, and she was co-producer of the award-winning feature The Garden Left Behind. The Stroll is her directorial debut. Instagram: @kplgrams / Twitter: @kikilovell
Meredith Broussard is an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University and the research director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology. She is the author of an upcoming book, More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech (MIT Press, 2023), as well as […]
Jenna LeDoux is the Vice President of Brand & Communications at The Just Trust, an organization dedicated to powering criminal justice reform across the country. She has a background in nonprofit and philanthropic communications – working at both the national and global level – and has also served in various grantmaking roles. Prior to The […]