Amanda Lebow is an agent at leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and represents documentary filmmakers and producers. In addition, Lebow packages and sells nonfiction feature films and series, and also works on overall film strategy for financiers and producers. Lebow began her career at Submarine Entertainment in New York City. Before joining […]
Lisa E. Davis is a partner in the Entertainment Group at Frankfurt Kurnit. Lisa represents businesses and celebrities in the film, television, publishing, music, theatre, and sports industries. She advises on a full range of transactional matters – focusing on film (both feature and documentary), television, publishing, live stage and branded entertainment. Lisa has been […]
Mandy Chang is Fremantle’s Global Head of Documentaries, with over 20 years of experience working across multiple genres and platforms as a respected commissioner, Exec producer, writer and filmmaker. She joined Fremantle to create a slate of world class international documentaries and series globally. For 4 years she ran legendary BBC global feature doc strand […]
Josh Braun is the co-president of Submarine Entertainment, a hybrid sales, production and distribution company. Mr. Braun recently executive produced the Netflix documentary series The Andy Warhol Diaries, the Sundance feature competition documentary Fire of Love, the Netflix untitled Pamela Anderson documentary as well as recent titles Circus of Books, Crip Camp and Apollo 11. Other series […]
Klara Nilsson Grunning is an Emmy Award winning producer, currently assigned as the film commissioner at the Norwegian Film Institute for documentary features, shorts and digital formats. She has been commissioner at the Danish and Swedish Film Institutes where she has commissioned films like Queen of Versailles, Children of the Enemy, Transnistra, Nelly & Nadine, […]
Rahdi Taylor designs and directs The Concordia Fellowship to catalyze transformative, career building opportunity for highly select, BIPOC + other diverse US documentary storytellers. She spent 10 years as Director of the Sundance Documentary Fund, awarding financing and creative support to documentary films globally including more than a dozen Academy Award nominees. She enjoys leading field-wide […]
Wendy Llinás is Sr. Director of Programming & Development for PBS. In this role she identifies, develops and oversees the production of original content and acquisitions for PBS in the genres of history, culture, and independent film. She works closely with Executive Producers of PBS’ documentary series POV, Independent Lens and VOCES. Llinás is a […]
Geeta Gandbhir is an mutiple award winning filmmaker over 25 years of experience in the industry. Her latest film, Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, will premiere on Peacock in 2022. Her short film from the HBO series Through Our Eyes won a 2022 Emmy Award.
Midwest-born and raised, David Siev is a first-generation Cambodian-Mexican-American filmmaker. Before directing Bad Axe, his SXSW award-winning feature debut based on his family’s restaurant in rural Michigan, David spent his early career learning guerilla filmmaking under director Jeff Tremaine. This experience prepared David to make his directorial debut with his award-winning narrative short, Year Zero, […]
Daniel J. Ain is Counsel for Reavis Page Jump LLP, practicing primarily in the areas of entertainment and media law. Named to Realscreen’s Factual Under 40 list in 2024, Dan represents production companies and independent producers on a broad range of television, film and digital media projects across all stages of development and production. He also […]