Antonia Hylton is an NBC News correspondent and a Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist reporting at the intersection of politics, civil rights, and immigration across all NBC News platforms.In 2021, Hylton co-hosted the #1 hit podcast, Southlake, with co-host Mike Hixenbaugh. Southlake tells the story of how this idyllic city, and its local school board […]
Shola Lynch is an award-winning American Filmmaker best known for the feature documentary Free & All Political Prisoners and the Peabody Award winning documentary Chisolm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed. Her independent film body of work and her other collaborative projects feed her passion to bring history alive with captivating stories of people, places, and events. Since 2013 […]
Susan Bodine represents a diverse clientele in the motion picture, television, and digital media industries. Her clients include major and specialty motion picture studios, cable television networks, media lenders, private equity financiers, as well as production and distribution companies, and individual directors, writers, and producers. Sue provides clients with counsel in all phases of development, finance, […]
Nancy Wolff is a partner at the intellectual property, media and entertainment law firm of Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard, LLP located in New York, New York and Beverly Hills, CA. She represents a wide range of creative individuals and companies in all areas of media law, art law, licensing and publishing. Nancy is co-chair […]
Brittany Quirarte is an Educator Development Specialist at The New York Public Library’s new initiative The Center for Educators and Schools. This program seeks to use NYPL’s resources and collections to ignite the curiosity, joy, and passion of learning within educators, students, and school communities. CES hosts many film events for teachers including a summer […]
Chithra Jeyaram is a physical therapist turned filmmaker with an MFA in Film from the University of Texas in Austin. She specializes in one-person crew independent documentaries. She identifies as Tamil. Her work prioritizes subverting stereotypes by framing narratives that highlight perspectives, and intricacies that are left out. She is the recipient of Visions Du […]
As Vice President and Co-Founder of ROCO’s Impact and Engagement division, Kristin Cooney and her team are responsible for executing bespoke screening campaigns to achieve targeted impact goals. Before starting ROCO’s Impact division, Kristin helped to launch ROCO’s Educational Distribution division, where she served as managing director for nine years, growing the educational catalogue from […]
Brian Walker is the CEO of Picture Motion, a social advocacy and marketing company that leads award winning social impact campaigns for films, tv and other media. In 2013 Brian joined Participant Media, where he directed social impact and digital strategy for the TEACH and He Named Me Malala campaigns focused on education, inclusion, and […]
In November 2021, Ray Boyd was released from the Connecticut Department of Correction. He was incarcerated at the age of 17 and served 30 years. During his incarceration, in 2015, Ray cofounded the Skills of Socialization (S.O.S.) program at the Osborn Correctional Institute, and in 2018 he cofounded the T.R.U.E. Reentry program at the Cheshire […]
Annie Taylor is an Emmy nominated Foley Editor who has worked on documentaries such as Retrograde and Amend: The Fight for America. Her goal is to enhance the storytelling with sound, and to have the audience feel immersed in the documentary’s subject with the use of texture, layering, and finesse to create a comprehensive and […]