October 25, 2022

Ashley Moradipour

Ashley is a Brooklyn-based documentary film editor. After working in production at the start of her career, she began pursuing post-production in 2017. She’s assistant edited features including This is Paris and Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack and recently landed her first feature editor role on the HBO documentary Endangered (Tribeca 2022).

October 25, 2022

Anthony Banua-Simon

Anthony Banua-Simon is an award-winning filmmaker and editor based in New York City. His debut feature, Cane Fire, was a selection of the 2020 Hot Docs International Film Festival as well as the 2021 MoMA Doc Fortnight and is being distributed by Cinema Guild. He’s featured in The New York Times, Jacobin, BOMB and Filmmaker.

October 25, 2022

Alex Takats

Alex Takats is a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer based in New York City. He worked with Academy Award-nominated documentary company Loki Films for 10 years, most recently as a producer and cinematographer. His work includes One Of Us (Netflix), Love Fraud (Showtime) and Endangered (HBO) and has been shown at film festivals such as the […]

October 25, 2022

Alex Clark

Alex Clark is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker, editor and producer for PBS NOVA. He recently co-produced NOVA’s first cryptocurrency film, Crypto Decoded, premiering 2022. He has developed, hosted and produced series for The Root, NowThis, and Vox’s Emmy-nominated Glad You Asked. Alex is adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Director of Community for […]

October 25, 2022

Isabel Freeman

Isabel Freeman is a New York-based editor specializing in documentary film. Her work has screened at festivals around the world including BFI London, Sheffield DocFest, Sundance, New York Film Festival and the Berlinale. She recently cut Rebeca Huntt’s debut feature, Beba, which had its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival in 2021. The film […]

October 19, 2022

Alan Hicks

Alan Hicks is a Grammy Award-Winning filmmaker based in Sydney and Los Angeles. After working as a musician in and around New York, Hicks transitioned to filmmaking, directing his first feature documentary Keep On Keepin’ On, winning both the Audience Award and Best New Director honors at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. The film also […]

October 19, 2022

Nate Halverson

Nate Halverson is an Emmy Award-winning senior reporter and producer at The Center for Investigative Reporting, covering business and finance with an emphasis on the global food system. He has reported across the world, from Asia and Europe to Africa and the Americas, and on investigative topics ranging from financial fraud and organized crime to […]

October 19, 2022

Janet Han Vissering

As SVP of development and production at National Geographic, Janet Han Vissering oversees the natural history slate and animal content across the channel and Nat Geo on Disney+. She is responsible for hundreds of hours of programming commissioned each year across platforms worldwide, including the Emmy-Award winning Secrets of the Whales. Vissering manages the development […]

October 19, 2022

Kimberly Jeffries

Kimberly Jeffries, a Hawaii-based cinematographer and technical dive instructor, specializes in underwater cinematography with a focus on charismatic megafauna. Her recent credits include Emmy award-winning productions like Chasing Coral, World’s Biggest Great Whites, and Amazing Animal Adventures, where she tells compelling stories about our connection to nature.

October 19, 2022

Jim Jolliffe

Jim Jolliffe started his career in film working his way through the ranks of the camera department, working on films and TV commercials. After learning composition and storytelling from many years as a Camera Operator he progressed to become a Cinematographer. Jim quickly established his own look shooting hundreds of TV commercials. His cinematic documentary […]