Tess Skadegård Thorsen, PhD (she/her/hers), is a researcher, educator, and consultant, specialized in representation and ethics in tech, media, and film practices. A former managing editor of the Danish journal for gender research, Tess was awarded the 2022 Kraka Award for gender research. Her research has been published internationally including in ‘Women in the International […]
Erika Dilday is the Executive Director of American Documentary Inc. and the Executive Producer of its award-winning documentary series POV on PBS and America ReFramed on WORLD Channel. Previously, she was the CEO of Futuro Media Group and the Executive Director of Maysles Documentary Center where she oversaw community cinema, filmmaking programs and produced the […]
Maite Alberdi won the Sundance World Cinema Documentary Award for her latest film, The Eternal Memory, a poignant look at the marriage of Chilean actress Paulina Urrutia and journalist Augusto Góngora that balances vibrant individual and collective remembrance with the longevity of an unbreakable human bond. Her previous works include The Mole Agent, which was […]
Deborah Shaffer began making social issue documentaries as a member of the Newsreel collective in the 1970s. Her first feature documentary, The Wobblies, was recently added to the National Film Registry. Her directing credits include Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements, which won the Academy Award for Short Documentary; as well as the features Fire […]
Michael Moore launched his documentary career with Roger & Me in 1989. He went on to break the documentary box office record with his 2002 Oscar-winning film Bowling for Columbine and the Palme d’Or-winning Fahrenheit 9/11, which remains the highest-grossing documentary of all time. His other notable films include the Oscar-nominated Sicko, Capitalism: A Love […]
Moses Bwayo is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker. Born and raised in Uganda, he was introduced to filmmaking by peeking through cracks in the walls of local bootleg movie theaters. Wrapped in the camerawork and storytelling of Hollywood’s martial arts films, Moses immediately fell in love with cinema. He graduated from Kampala University with a Bachelor […]
Pablo Durana is a Colombian born, Canadian raised and Californian based Emmy® Award–winning cinematographer and adventure photographer. As an endurance athlete, he has extensive experience filming and operating in extreme conditions, from within the world’s deepest caves in Mexico, to the towering walls of Antarctica. For almost two decades Pablo has worked with the world’s […]
Christopher Lew is a Canadian cinematographer based in Brooklyn NY. He is a member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers. In 2019 his first narrative feature film Tito won the Special Jury Award at the SXSW film festival. In 2020 he shot Haya Waseem’s feature debut Quickening which premiered at TIFF 2021. His last film Riceboy […]
Yoni Brook is a Peabody Award winning film director, producer, and cinematographer. As a director, his films have screened at Sundance, Berlinale, True/False, and the New York and Toronto Film Festivals. He co-created, shot and directed the docuseries Philly D.A. (PBS Independent Lens/Topic, Sundance, winner of Peabody, Gotham, & duPont Awards, NYTimes ‘Best TV’ of 2021). […]
Claudia Raschke was born in Hamburg, one of the largest European ports near the Baltic Sea in Northern Germany. Throughout her childhood the chain of movie theaters owned by her mother brought Claudia into the world of film. After college Claudia studied the art and technique of cinematography on the practical level while working with […]