Kate Davis is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker for Traffic Stop, which also won DOC NYC’s Short Documentary Competition. Davis has won Peabodys for The Newburgh Sting and Stonewall Uprising, an Emmy for Jockey, and a NAACP Award for Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland. Southern Comfort won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize […]
Maxim Pozdorovkin is an award-winning director and writer based in New York. He has directed seven feature documentaries and multiple shorts. Maxim holds a PhD from Harvard University for a dissertation on early propaganda and is a frequent media commentator on Russian politics.
Academy Award, BAFTA, WGA and Emmy nominee Ramin Bahrani is the Iranian-American writer, director and producer of such films as Man Push Cart, Chop Shop, 99 Homes and The White Tiger. His debut feature documentary 2nd Chance premiered at Sundance and was released by Bleeker Street and Showtime.
Eric Hynes is Senior Curator of Film at Museum of the Moving Image in New York, where he heads up year-round programming as well as the annual First Look Festival. He is also a longtime critic and journalist, with outlets that have included the New York Times, the Washington Post, Film Comment, Rolling Stone, Slate, […]
Asako Gladsjo is an award-winning documentary director, series producer, and writer. Her recent credits include Eyes on the Prize III for HBO, a 6-hour sequel to Henry Hampton’s landmark civil rights series; The Calling, a feature documentary on medical students in the Bronx; Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities, co-directed with Sam Pollard; […]
Jennifer is an Archival Producer with Archival Ninjas, one of the industry’s leading archival and licensing companies. Since joining the Ninjas, Jennifer has worked on more than 20 documentary projects, from research to clearances, including on 11 Minutes (Paramount +), Super League: The War for Football (Apple+), Eyes on the Prize (Max), Skywalkers: A Love […]
Hana Wuerker is a Brooklyn based filmmaker and documentary editor. She has worked on a variety of docu-series, including Amazon’s The Money Game (2024), HBO’s The Vow: Part II (2022), and HBO’s The Case Against Adnan Syed (2019), among others. Her feature work has played at Telluride, Sundance, DOC-NYC, and IDFA. Hana is a 2024 […]
Carlos is a documentary editor based in NYC/NJ. He has a passion for storytelling that connects global issues with personal narratives. Carlos has edited notable films such as They Took Them Alive (Full Frame 2017), Tre, Maison, Dasan (San Francisco Intl FF 2018), for which he received the Karen Schmeer Award for Excellence in Documentary […]
Janet Brown is President, Global Content Sales at BBC Studios, where she spearheads global content sales and investment across all regions outside the UK. She joined in 2022 as President, Content Distribution, North America and Latin America, leading content sales in the region and driving global distribution relationships with top U.S. partners. In this role, […]
Faridah Gbadamosi is a pop culture-lover of film, working towards making the space more inclusive in whose stories get told and who gets to author those stories. She has extensive experience as a film programmer. In addition to her curation work, Faridah has provided consultations to several film/TV projects and non-profit organizations, published articles on […]