January 20, 2023

Nevo Shinaar

A creative producer based in Chicago, Nevo’s award-winning films have been nominated at The Academy Awards, shown at film festivals including Sundance and SXSW, and acquired by Disney+, HBO Max, POV/PBS, the NY Times and The Criterion Channel.

January 20, 2023

Sura Mallouh

Sura Mallouh is a Palestinian-Canadian documentary filmmaker. She is a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Grantee and NBC Original Voices Fellow. Her documentaries have been featured on CBC Short Docs, CBC Arts, Upworthy and have been viewed globally. She was listed as one of the DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 documentary talent honorees in 2021. […]

January 20, 2023

Daniel Hymanson

Daniel Hymanson’s first feature So Late So Soon screened at True/False, DOC NYC, and BAFICI. Oscilloscope Pictures released the film theatrically. Organizations including Catapult, The Gotham, Illinois Arts Council, and Sundance Institute have supported his work. Filmmaker Magazine named him one of its “25 New Faces of Independent Film” and DOC NYC included him on […]

January 20, 2023

Èlia Gasull Balada

Èlia Gasull Balada is a NAACP Image Award-nominated visual artist and filmmaker. Her body of work is focused on stories that underscore deeply felt themes of trauma, race, inequity and activism in the face of steep odds. Her latest work examines the experiences of the Shipibo-Conibo women of the Peruvian Amazon who suffered the trauma […]

January 20, 2023

Tabs Breese

Tabs’ films include Isabel Castro’s ‘Mija’ (Sundance, CPH:Dox 2022) and Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan’s ‘Naked Gardens’ (Tribeca, IDFA 2022). ‘Mija’ is nominated for the Cinema Eye Audience Prize, IDA’s Best Feature and Indie Spirits’ Truer Than Fiction. Tabs is a twice Sundance Institute Grantee. She was in Doc NYC’s 2021 ‘40 Under 40’ and […]

January 20, 2023

Lauren Haber

Lauren Haber is a Brooklyn based Emmy-winning producer and Head of Development at Impact Partners. Recent credits include MIJA (Disney+), AFTERSHOCK (Onyx Collective), Nuclear Family (HBO), AILEY (PBS/Neon) and PAPER & GLUE (MSNBC). Previously, she produced for filmmakers Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau, collaborating on features Trophy and Narco Cultura, and series including Independent Spirit Award and Peabody winner Immigration Nation on Netflix.

November 16, 2022

Ramona Diaz

Ramona Diaz has been making films for close to 20 years. Her first film IMELDA (2004) premiered at Sundance where it won an award. Her film, MOTHERLAND (2017), also won an award at Sundance and had its international premiere at the Berlin Int’l FF. It was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and a Peabody […]

November 16, 2022

Traci A. Curry

Traci A. Curry is an Oscar-nominated director, producer, showrunner and writer of powerful stories, with more than two decades of experience in creating compelling, in-depth narratives for multi-media platforms. Her most recent film, Attica, received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature. Traci’s work has been featured across a variety of networks, including Showtime, […]

November 16, 2022

Pamela Yates

Pamela Yates is the Co-founder of Skylight, a media organization that combines cinematic arts with the quest for justice to inspire the defense of human rights. She has been awarded the Special Jury Prize from Sundance, an Academy Award, an Overseas Press Club Award, an Emmy and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

November 16, 2022

Geeta Gandbhir

Geeta Gandbhir is an award-winning Director, Producer and Editor with over 25 years of experience in the film industry. She started her career in narrative film under Spike Lee and Sam Pollard  After working for eleven years in the edit room in scripted film, with the likes of Merchant Ivory, the Coen Brothers, Robert Altman […]