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.
Laura is a creative documentary producer committed to telling stories that highlight urgent social justice issues. Currently producing the feature What We Carry, she recently produced the feature Mama Bears (SXSW 2022, Independent Lens 2023) and the short Black Beauty (Outfest 2022). Laura has been a fellow of WIF/Sundance Institute’s Financing Intensive (2020, 2022) and […]
Janah is a Nuyorican documentary director and editor from the Bronx, NY. Her editorial work has premiered at DOC NYC, Cannes, Berlinale, Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca and New York film festivals, among others. Her directorial debut, Melting Snow, premiered on the Criterion Collection in May 2022. She is currently working on her debut feature, We Believe!.
Igor Myakotin is an Emmy-nominated BAFTA-winning filmmaker who co-produced feature-length documentary Welcome to Chechnya. He is a 2022 Sundance Producing Fellow with a feature-length documentary, Queendom, set to release in 2023. Igor believes that cinema is not a way to escape reality but a way to embrace it with all its peculiarities and its darkness.
Grace Zahrah is an emerging documentary editor whose work focuses on stories about misunderstood subjects and characters. Most recently, she edited Retrograde, which premiered at Telluride Film Festival 2022, and Sirens, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2022 and was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Documentary Feature at Outfest. Zahrah is also a […]
Giselle Bailey is a director of Jamaican descent whose work blends documentary, narrative and contemporary art to create content that is explosively visual and metaphorical. Giselle is a 2022 Concordia Fellow currently directing HBO docuseries Seen & Heard. Her directorial portfolio includes interstitials for Hulu docuseries Hair Tales (2022) and HBO documentary feature The Legend […]
Emmett Adler is an award-winning documentary editor. In 2022, he made his directorial debut with End of the Line, a feature documentary that premiered at DOC NYC and is available on Apple TV, Amazon Prime and more. Additionally, Emmett leads the Chicago chapter of the Video Consortium, a global nonprofit that supports nonfiction filmmakers.