Brian Newman, founder of Sub-Genre, consults on content strategy, distribution and marketing for some of the top brands in the world. Current and former clients include: The Climate Pledge (Amazon), GoDaddy, IBM, New York Times, Oatly, Patagonia, Purina, REI, Stripe, Sundance, Unilever, and Yeti Coolers. Brian has served as CEO of the Tribeca Film Institute, and […]
Pianist and filmmaker James Carson has developed a new form of music and for the last eleven years has been producing and directing Cabin Music, a documentary feature film having its world premiere at DOC NYC 2022. While attending the New England Conservatory in Boston, studies with Joe Maneri, Cecil Taylor, and the poet Robert Creeley led James to […]
Barry Poltermann is known for editing the Sundance Grand Prize winning documentary American Movie (1999) and Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (2017), which debuted at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Emmy in 2018. He also edited the Sundance Special Jury Prize winning feature, The Pool (2008) and the limited documentary […]
Sonya Childress is a cultural strategist who believes in the transformative power of film. She co-directs the Color Congress, an ecosystem-builder that resources, supports, and connects organizations led by people of color that serve nonfiction filmmakers, leaders, and audiences of color across the US and territories, with Sahar Driver. As Senior Fellow with the Perspective […]
Geralyn White Dreyfous has over 180 credits as a producer and executive producer of documentary films. Those credits include Born Into Brothels; The Invisible War; 16 Shots; The Hunting Ground; Won’t You Be My Neighbor?; The Great Hack; Us Kids; The Truffle Hunters; Mija; Aftershock; and The Grab. She stands as Founder and Board Chair […]
Werner Herzog was born in Munich on September 5, 1942. He grew up in a remote mountain village in Bavaria and studied History and German Literature in Munich and Pittsburgh. He made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature- and […]
Ondi Timoner has the rare distinction of winning the U.S. Grand Jury Prize at Sundance twice — for Dig! (2004), about the collision of art and commerce through the eyes of two rival rock bands, and We Live in Public (2009), about the loss of privacy online through a NY social experiment. Her other films […]
James J. Faller is a native New Yorker who grew up on Roosevelt Island. Raised by his Puerto Rican mother and Irish/German father also a NYC native, James was introduced to literature and film at a young age. Bypassing traditional schooling after being denied entry into his film school of choice, James blazed a path […]
Joanna Lehan is an editor and writer on visual culture. Formally a curator at the International Center of Photography, she produced publications there, as well as at Aperture Foundation. She has taught in ICP-Bard’s MFA program and Barnard College. Joanna holds an MA in Liberal Studies from The Graduate Center, CUNY, where she wrote on […]
Carly Reicho is a distribution and artist relations specialist with experience spanning genres. After working in acquisitions and client management for distributors The Orchard and 1091 Pictures, she co-founded the filmmaker-centric distribution consulting agency, Secretary Media. She has worked in filmmaker relations for Tribeca Film Festival, DOC NYC, NewFest, and programs community events for the […]