Dan Slepian is an award winning investigative producer and a 18-year veteran of NBC’s venerable newsmagazine, Dateline — where he has developed and produced dozens of episodes, complex hidden camera investigations, and breaking news segments. Slepian’s investigations have helped solve cold cases, assisted in exonerating wrongfully convicted inmates, uncovered corruption, sparked changes in laws, and […]
Rachel Boynton is an award-winning producer and director, known for getting access to places no one has filmed before. Her latest feature, Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are), is available to stream on Peacock. Her previous films, Our Brand is Crisis and Big Men, have won the IDA’s Best Feature Documentary Award, and have been nominated […]
Vinay Shukla is a leading filmmaker and producer in the Indian documentary landscape. His debut feature, An Insignificant Man (2016, co-director Khushboo Ranka) was internationally acclaimed, set an anti-censorship precedent, and became India’s highest grossing documentary. He also won the HBO Best Short Film Award for Bureaucracy Sonata (2011). Vinay’s films have partnered with Sundance, DocSociety, […]
Brandy Zadrozny is an award-winning investigative and features reporter for NBC News where she covers misinformation, extremism, and the internet. She’s written definitive stories on disinformation surrounding the 2020 election, QAnon conspiracy theories, and the anti-vaccination movement. She is a current research fellow at the Technology and Social Change Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein […]
Gerardo del Valle is a director and producer from Guatemala based out of New York City. His work explores the people behind the headlines and the repercussion of policy decisions on communities. He is a Firelight Documentary Lab Fellow and an SFFilm Foundation New American Fellow. His work has been supported by the International Documentary […]
Jason Pollard’s involvement in the film industry began as a young child when he accompanied his father, acclaimed film producer/editor Sam Pollard, to different edit rooms as Sam magically turned strips of celluloid into complex and wonderful stories. He has has edited many acclaimed documentary films including Slavery by Another Name, which premiered at the […]
Don Argott is an Emmy nominated filmmaker who co-owns the Philadelphia based production company, 9.14 Pictures, with producer/director, Sheena M. Joyce. Argott’s filmography includes, Rock School, Two Days In April, The Art Of The Steal, Last Days Here, The Atomic States of America, As The Palaces Burn, Slow Learners, Batman & Bill, Believer, Framing John […]
Shaunak Sen is a filmmaker and film scholar based in New Delhi, India. Cities of Sleep (2016), his first feature-length documentary, was shown at various major international film festivals (including DOK Leipzig, DMZ Docs and the Taiwan International Documentary Festival, among others) and won 6 international awards. Shaunak received the IDFA Bertha Fund (2019), the […]
Camilla Hall is a documentary director working in both London and Los Angeles. Most recently she completed Subject, a documentary feature film about what it means to participate in a documentary. The film premiered and was nominated for Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2022. In May 2022, she completed directing Kingdom […]
Omar Mullick is a New-York based writer and director. His work as a writer and cinematographer on the fiction film You Resemble Me led to a 78th Venice Biennale premiere and is set for a theatrical release across North America in October 2022. His screenplay, Cain and Abel, was accepted into both the Sundance Screenwriters […]