November 3, 2025

Martin DiCicco

Martin DiCicco’s debut feature, All That Passes By Through A Window That Doesn’t Open (2017) won the Regard Neuf Award at Visions du Réel, the Cinematic Vision Award at the Camden IFF, and the Artistic Merit Prize of the Taiwan IDF. His short film, Here There Is No Earth (2018) has been exhibited at the […]

October 31, 2025

Vivek Chaudhary

Vivek Chaudhary is director, producer and writer whose films have been shown and awarded at prestigious film festivals like Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival among others. His work has been supported by top film grants like IDFA Bertha Fund, The French National Centre for Cinema […]

October 27, 2025

Hugo Perez

Hugo Perez is the writer and director of the feature documentary Omara, which aired on PBS in 2025. He is currently in production on a documentary biopic of Latino film icon Ricardo Montalban. Perez was a writer on John Leguizamo’s award-winning American Historia series. He is a recipient of the NALIP Estela Award for documentary […]

October 27, 2025

Mars Verrone

Mars Verrone is a filmmaker, musician, and educator. Their first feature as a producer, UNION, premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it won a special jury award, and was shortlisted for an Oscar. As producer, Mars received a Cinema Eye Honors Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Production.” Mars has been awarded fellowships with […]

October 27, 2025

Patricia E. Gillespie

Emmy Award–winning documentarian Patricia E. Gillespie’s work centers around character-driven narratives of unforgettable underdogs. With noisy storylines, her films have a proven track record of engaging broad audiences around issues that matter, particularly those related to class, justice, public health, and gender. Her directorial features include The Fire That Took Her, They Called Him Mostly […]

October 27, 2025

Igor Myakotin

Igor Myakotin is a BAFTA & Peabody-winning filmmaker who produced Queendom and Welcome to Chechnya, both of which were shortlisted for the Best Documentary Oscar. He explores the nuance of queer liberation in conservative environments. Igor is a part of 2025 Berlinale Talents and a 2022 Sundance Creative Producing Lab Fellow. His films have screened […]

October 27, 2025

Emma D. Miller

Emma D. Miller’s films have screened at festivals, including Venice, Toronto, SXSW, and CPH:DOX. She produced Cinema Eye Honors-nominated Mistress Dispeller and Gotham Award-nominated What We Leave Behind, directed The School of Canine Massage, and co-produced Love+War. A 2023 Sundance Producers Fellow, she was named one of DOC NYC’s “40 Under 40” and one of […]

October 27, 2025

Tiffany Sia

Tiffany Sia is an artist, filmmaker, and writer. Sia’s films have screened at TIFF, NYFF, MoMA’s Doc Fortnight, and elsewhere. She has had solo exhibitions at the Mudam, Luxembourg, and more. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art and elsewhere. Sia is the author of On and Off-Screen […]

October 27, 2025

Karol Piekarczyk

Karol Piekarczyk is the Artistic Director of Millennium Docs Against Gravity, the largest film festival in Poland. With an audience of over 180,000, it is the second most attended documentary festival in Europe. He has worked with documentary films and film festivals for over 15 years. He also oversees film distribution, releasing over 45 documentary […]

October 27, 2025

Bill Morrison

Bill Morrison is best known for Decasia (2002), the first film of the 21st century to be named to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, and Dawson City: Frozen Time, which has been listed among the best films of the 2010s. Incident won the International Documentary Association’s Best Short Documentary award, took the Cinema […]