Stephen Bailey is a Jamaican-American director and cinematographer exploring the strength of the human spirit and stories that form our identities. Most recently, he directed on the Peacock series Shadowland. His work as a director of photography includes HBO feature documentary Legend of the Underground, Netflix hybrid series The G Word, and HBOSport Emmy-nominated series […]
Serginho Roosblad is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist and photographer, who is part of the Associated Press’ Global Investigations team. He’s a producer of Exposing Muybridge, a film about motion-picture pioneer Eadweard Muybridge, which premiered at DOC NYC 2021. Serginho is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area but hails from Amsterdam, with […]
Robert A. Martinez is a Mexican-American documentary editor whose work includes the Emmy-nominated Lucy and Desi (Sundance 2022, Amazon) and the ACE Eddie and Emmy-nominated The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart (HBO). A graduate of California State Northridge, Robert grew up in Rialto, CA and currently resides in Inglewood, CA.
Robert Kolodny is a director and cinematographer based in New York. He was Director of Photography on Netflix’s Procession, which was shortlisted for the 94th Academy Awards and earned him an Emmy nomination. He’s contributed cinematography to films by Robert Greene, Laura Poitras, Alex Ross Perry, Cecilia Vicuña and the Safdie Brothers. He teaches film at […]
Rita Baghdadi is an award-winning documentary filmmaker known for the intimacy of her bold, character-driven films. Her latest feature, Sirens, premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Outfest. Rita’s work has been supported by Sundance, Tribeca, Netflix, HBO, Canon, Film Independent and the International Documentary Association. She […]
Paula Eiselt is an award-winning independent feature-film filmmaker, producer, and activist known for her journalistic rigor in telling timely and intelligent cinematic stories led by strong-willed characters. She is most notably known for her two award-winning documentary features, 2018’s 93Queen (POV/ITVS, HBO Max) and 2022’s Sundance Impact Award-winner, Aftershock (HULU, Disney+).
Oluwaseun Babalola is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and television producer. Recent work includes Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (HBO), which recounts the activist’s life through impactful oration. Oluwaseun is also the founder of KOSINIMA, Inc., a nonprofit with initiatives such as: “ṢOJU,” a platform that celebrates African youth culture via documentary film/photography, and “KOSINIMA Short Film […]
Nicole Docta is an award-winning filmmaker who’s focused her career on socially impactful projects producing Emmy Award-winning Belly of the Beast and duPont Award-winner Through the Night. She’s a Special Initiatives Producer at Firelight Media and is developing Adopting, a feature documentary illustrating the transnational, transracial adoption process through the lens that all adoptions start […]
Nick Canfield is a New York City-based director and cinematographer. He got his start working alongside legendary documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles, where he developed an intimate observational style. His camera-work can be seen in documentaries such as Iris, Born to Fly, In Transit and Making a Murderer. His first feature, The Reverend, won the DOC […]
Director/Producer of The Automat (Telluride 2021, DOC NYC 2021), Lisa self-distributed the film through her production turned distribution company A Slice of Pie Productions. It grossed $250k in U.S. box office, played 5 months in NYC, is nominated for 4 Critics Choice Awards, and is the most successful theatrically self-distributed US documentary since before Covid.