Midwest-born and raised, David is a first-generation Cambodian-Mexican-American filmmaker. Prior to directing his SXSW award-winning feature debut, Bad Axe, David attended the University of Michigan film school. He spent his early career embracing the versatility of guerilla filmmaking, working on various projects under director Jeff Tremaine. David now lives in New York City and is focused […]
David Alvarado is a documentary director focusing on science, technology and human rights. He co-founded Structure Films, where he directed feature films including The Immortalists (2014), Bill Nye: Science Guy (2017), Blood Sugar Rising (2020) and We Are As Gods (2022), among other shorts and series. His new project is about a legendary Chicano playwright […]
Daniel Chávez-Ontiveros is an award-winning Mexican filmmaker living in the California Bay Area. He edited 499 and Sansón And Me, directed by Rodrigo Reyes. These films have won awards in Tribeca, HotDocs and Sheffield Doc Fest. He is a fellow of the 2022 Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship. He is currently editing the film Unseen, […]
Daniel Garber is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker with work spanning documentary, fiction and experimental practices. Primarily an editor, his work includes Some Kind of Heaven, The Reagan Show and How to Blow Up a Pipeline. He was one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces and a Cinema Eye Honors nominee. He is currently working on Lance […]
Cora Atkinson is an award-winning producer and filmmaker. She recently co-produced the Oscar winning film Summer of Soul. She is also the Supervising Producer at Words + Pictures overseeing and producing documentaries. Her recent credits include Carol and Johnny (Tribeca), Jeanette Lee Vs. (ESPN) and American Son (ESPN). Cora has also produced shorts, features, and […]
Chris is the co-founder of Optimist and director of the documentaries Living on One Dollar (Netflix 2015) and Salam Neighbor (Netflix 2016). His last feature Five Years North (PBS 2021), won the Grand Jury award at DOC NYC and was a finalist for the duPont-Columbia awards. Chris recently completed a feature documentary with XTR called […]
Cassidy Hartmann is an Emmy-winning documentary producer and writer, and a partner at White Horse Pictures in Los Angeles. She produced and co-wrote the Oscar-shortlisted, Emmy-winning documentary The Apollo (Tribeca, HBO), directed by Roger Ross Williams. She’s currently producing and co-writing a documentary about the ventriloquist Shari Lewis and her puppet, Lamb Chop, directed by Lisa […]
Brian Becker is a filmmaker and producer who makes archival documentaries that highlight forgotten narratives of American culture. He is currently directing his first feature on Y2K for HBO and most recently served as archival producer on Free Chol Soo Lee and MLK/FBI. He received the 2021 Points North Fellowship and is an Impact Partners […]
Bao is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker based in Los Angeles and Saigon. His first film, Live from New York!, opened the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. In 2020, his next film, Be Water, premiered in competition at Sundance and was invited to SXSW, Cannes, Telluride, and Hot Docs. He earned his BA at NYU and his MFA […]
Avantika Nimbalker is a production sound mixer and sound designer working in documentaries and fiction films. Her credits include Webby-award winner Chasing Cosby, First Move (DOC NYC) and Fierce, Funny & Fly. Avantika was the lead production sound mixer for feature narrative Allswell (Tribeca) and A Period Piece (SXSW). Born and raised in India, she […]