As a first-generation Vietnamese American, my journey from Saigon to the U.S. has always been driven by a need to create, to remember, and to reclaim. For over a decade, I worked as an art director and designer, shaping stories through visuals, but film has given me a way to speak from the soul. Y […]
Caitlin manages marketing and communications for DOC NYC. Since 2023, she has served as the Director of Programs and Promotions at IFC Center, where she oversees repertory and midnight programming. Caitlin has over twenty years of experience working in independent film distribution and exhibition, and she’s passionate about helping audiences discover new films.
Nanette Burstein began her career directing the documentary, On The Ropes, which received an Oscar nomination, won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance, and received the DGA award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement. She is most known for her documentary, The Kid Stays in the Picture, a biography about Robert Evans; American Teen which won the […]
Amanda Culkowski is an Emmy nominated Executive Producer and Vice President of Music Program Development & Documentaries at Paramount. She is responsible for developing original music and talent driven series and documentaries for MTV’s global channels and P+ premium content. Since joining the network in 2019 she has overseen the development and production of Eminem’s […]
Francisco Bello, ACE is an Oscar®-Nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker, writer and editor. Highlights include Salim Baba (HBO, Best Short Documentary Oscar and Emmy Nominee), WAR DON DON, (HBO, SXSW Special Jury Prize, two Emmy nominations), Most Beautiful Island (SXSW Narrative Grand Jury Prize), Barbara Kopple’s Emmy-nominated Desert One (History), the triple Emmy-winning The First Wave (NatGeo, Neon), and the […]
Jeremy Stulberg, ACE is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and editor whose recent work includes Move Ya Body: The Birth of House (Sundance 2025), directed by Elegance Bratton and produced by Roger Ross Williams. He co-wrote and edited Sabbath Queen (Tribeca premiere, NYT Critics’ Pick), executive produced by Darren Aronofsky. A Sundance Documentary Fellow, Jeremy has […]
Akmyrat Tuyliyev is a producer at MIT Open Documentary Lab and a Visiting Assistant Professor at ASU’s Master’s in Narrative and Emerging Media program in Los Angeles, CA. His VR documentary “1991” was part of the Venice Biennale College Cinema VR, IDFA DocLab Forum, and NewImages Festival XR Market. Akmyrat has produced and directed new […]
Tristen is an experienced strategic creative lead at Getty Images, managing a team of visual researchers and curators focused on both identifying and influencing the creation of powerful, resonant, and innovative visual content for the wider advertising and marketing industry. With a career spanning well over a decade and varying roles in marketing, research, creative, […]
AX Mina is a queer nonbinary filmmaker, artist and author. She consults on research for the Archival Producers Alliance and is director and producer of Rubbish: The Queer Kingdom of Leilah Babirye. She is a Senior Civic Media Fellow at the USC Annenberg School for Journalism and Communications and member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia […]
Peter Bowman is a documentary editor from North Carolina. Most recently, he edited Cover-Up (2025) and was an additional editor on the Emmy Award-winning Girls State (2024). He has worked on documentary features and series for AppleTV, Netflix, and PBS.