Ethan Hawke is a four-time Academy Award®-nominated actor, director, writer, producer and novelist. His prolific film acting credits include Dead Poets Society; Reality Bites; Gattaca; Training Day; Boyhood; the ‘Before Trilogy’; and First Reformed. He has also worked extensively in the theater and been nominated for the Drama Desk award as both an actor and […]
Maggie Pisacane is a partner at WME and runs the agency’s Documentary Group. In her role, she focuses on premium non-fiction and documentary projects, representing renowned filmmakers and some of the most prolific production companies in the non fiction space. Pisacane began her career as an associate at Sloss Eckhouse LawCo and transitioned to Frankfurt […]
Melissa Georges is counsel to the Entertainment Group and Chair of the Content Review & Clearance Group at Frankfurt Kurnit. For more than 20 years, she has helped award-winning film and television producers, directors, actors, writers, animators, and comedians resolve complex legal issues to get their projects cleared and distributed. Ms. Georges assesses all forms […]
Caren Decter is a partner in the Litigation Group at Frankfurt Kurnit, focusing on commercial and intellectual property litigation, and white collar defense. Named to Benchmark Litigation’s 2019 and 2021 40 & Under Hot List and listed as a 2022 Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers magazine, Ms. Decter represents clients in civil and criminal matters […]
Carolyn Hepburn is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producer whose recent films include American Pain (2022 Tribeca Festival, CNN Films); Unfinished Business (2022 Tribeca Festival); The Return of Tanya Tucker featuring Brandi Carlile (2022 SXSW Audience Winner, Sony Pictures Classics); In The Same Breath (HBO Docs, Oscar shortlisted); The Velvet Underground (Cannes Film Festival, Apple+, […]
Cynthia Kane co-created Sundance Channel’s DOCday and brought Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Denis Poncet’s documentary series, The Staircase (2006-Peabody-Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards) to U.S. television. At ITVS, she shepherded 150+ international and U.S. co-productions for public media. At Al Jazeera America, she commissioned documentaries and series (Albert Maysles’ final work, In Transit and duPont Award-winning […]
Sarah Rachael Wainio is one of the industry’s most sought after storytellers. Her credits include The Food Network, Magnolia Network, Netflix, TLC, and HBO. She produced the first three seasons of MTV’s seminal show “Teen Mom: Young + Pregnant,” bringing the real-life consequences of unplanned teen pregnancy to a national audience. She earned an MFA […]
Selena Lauterer has worked in public media for more than 20 years and is the founder and president of Artemis Independent, a media promotions and production company located in Boone, North Carolina. Her public television credits include Co-Producer of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning PBS series A Chef’s Life, Consulting Producer for Vivian Howard’s Somewhere […]
Essie Chambers is a writer and producer based in Brooklyn. Most recently, she produced Descendant, the Sundance award-winning documentary directed by Margaret Brown, to be released by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground and Netflix in October 2022. Her work includes the acclaimed PBS documentary The New Public and Pull Out (Amazon Prime), both directed […]
Carol Dysinger directed short documentary Learning To Skateboard In a Warzone (If You’re A Girl)) which won both the Oscar and BAFTA for best short documentary. It also won best documentary short from IDA and at Tribeca Film Festival 2019. Dysinger is known for her feature length documentary Camp Victory, Afghanistan. It premiered in competition […]