Alyse Shorland is a two-time Emmy and Peabody-winning director and producer, who’s made great things with HBO, NBC Studios, One Story Up, VICE, CBS, FX, HULU, CNN, and the New York Times. Her work marries artful filmmaking with journalistic curiosity and rigor, and she has helped craft some of the most ambitious films, series, and […]
Peter Yearwood contracted polio as an infant in his home country, Belize, and has lived with a disability his whole life. In 1970, he emigrated to Brooklyn and met the mother of his children. When that relationship ended, Pete fell into the street life, using and selling drugs. In 2015, many years sober, Pete moved […]
Alexis Neophytides is a documentary filmmaker and educator based in New York City. Her work centers around community and how we find meaning in people and place. She is the co-creator/co-director/producer of Neighborhood Slice, a public television documentary series that tells the stories of longtime New Yorkers who’ve held onto their little corner of the […]
Tyler H. Walk, ACE is a Sundance Special Jury Award for Editing, Cinema Eye award winning, and Emmy-nominated editor whose projects include David France’s Welcome To Chechnya, the Oscar-Nominated How To Survive A Plague, and Michael Moore’s Where To Invade Next. A graduate from Penn State University (’06) and The Edit Center, Tyler is also an […]
Joe Brewster is a Harvard-trained physician and an award-winning immersive and documentary filmmaker whose character-driven work challenges the audience to envision an equitable future. He is a Spirit Award and four-time Emmy nominee. Brewster, a two-time Sundance jury prize winner, resides in Brooklyn with his partner, Michèle Stephenson (and cat, Tama).
Michèle Stephenson is a platform-agnostic artist who pulls from her Caribbean roots to create stories centering the lived experiences of the Black diaspora. She is a four-time Emmy Award nominee, a Guggenheim and Creative Capital fellow and a jury prize winner at Tribeca and Sundance Festivals. Stephenson lives in Brooklyn with her creative and life […]
Ryan Loeffler is a documentary filmmaker and editor based in Los Angeles, California. He cut his teeth as an assistant editor and additional editor on award-winning documentaries from some of the most accomplished documentary directors working today, including Robert Kenner, Brett Morgen, Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin. Most recently, he edited Food., Inc. 2, the […]
Amy Foote, ACE is an Emmy Award winning documentary editor based in NYC. Some of her editing credits include Laura Poitras’s Oscar-nominated film All The Beauty and the Bloodshed, as well as Girls State, Hail Satan?, Father Soldier Son and The Work. She most recently cut Laura Poitras’s recent film Cover-Up, about investigative journalist Seymour […]
Justin Ervin is an award-winning writer, director and cinematographer of both scripted and non-scripted work. His work has appeared on notable platforms including Netflix, PBS, HBO and Hulu, and was Cinematographer on the EMMY-nominated, Netflix Original Documentary Is That Black Enough For You?!? which was also nominated for two NAACP Image Awards in 2023. Justin […]
Zac Manuel is an Academy Award-nominated director and cinematographer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Zac’s work in documentary draws from complex legacies of Southern identity, with particular interest in the impacts of history and inheritance on Black communities. Zac uses his camera to create bridges of intimacy and transparency between himself and his films’ participants, with a […]