Ruchi Mital is an Emmy-winning filmmaker based in Brooklyn. Her films include We Could Be King; Sky Ladder: The Art Of Cai Guo-Qiang and This is Personal, both of which premiered at Sundance; The Case Against Adnan Syed for HBO; and The Me You Can’t See for Apple TV+. She is currently producing a hybrid documentary/fiction feature, This World is Not My […]
Aid-worker-turned-filmmaker, and DOC NYC/HBO 40-Under-40. Born in Korea, Catherine was fortunate to receive scholarships and dedicated her studies at Yale and Harvard – and ensuing decade’s profession across 18 countries – to global humanitarian work. Witnessing storytelling power, she left the UN to direct film. 9at38, her debut, premiered at Tribeca and features on The […]
Alexandra Lazarowich is an award-winning Cree filmmaker from northern Alberta. Her short film Fast Horse was honoured with The Special Jury Prize for Directing at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Her body of work as director and producer include LAKE, Indian Rights for Indian Women, Cree Code Talker Empty Metal and INAATE/SE/. She is the series producer […]
Smriti Keshari is an Indian-American award-winning film director and writer, her work explores under-represented perspectives and stories. She has a roster of highly notable projects. Keshari is known for her acclaimed multi-media installation, the bomb, which was heralded by Newsweek as “a stunning avant-garde approach to a plea for nuclear disarmament.” She is an artist-in-residence with the […]
Sonia Kennebeck is an award-winning director and producer and has released three critically-acclaimed independent feature films: NATIONAL BIRD (Berlinale Special 2016), ENEMIES OF THE STATE (TIFF 2020), and UNITED STATES VS. REALITY WINNER (SXSW 2021). Her work has been widely distributed through IFC Films, PBS, Netflix, and Hulu. She is a self-trained filmmaker, first-generation college […]
Yuqi Kang was born in Inner Mongolia, China. She studied filmmaking in the Social Documentary Film Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Upon graduation, she was awarded the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for Exceptional Achievement in Social Documentary Film. Her feature debut (A Little Wisdom*) premiered at Busan International Film Festival […]
One of Doc NYC’s 40 under 40, Patricia is currently producing and directing a TBA documentary feature for MTV Docs. She created and directed THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, a five part true crime series for Viceland, co-ep’d Blumhouse’s FALL RIVER (Co-Ep), and produced Jen Brea’s Emmy Nominated, Oscar-Shorlisted UNREST (Producer). She loves verité, underdogs, and the Fujinon […]
Erika Cohn is a two-time Emmy, Peabody and DGA Award-winning filmmaker, recognized by Variety as one of 2017’s top documentary filmmakers to watch and featured in DOC NYC’s 2019 “40 Under 40.” Most recently, she directed/produced the Emmy Award-winning and Peabody nominated BELLY OF THE BEAST, featuring the 2021 Oscar shortlisted original song, “See What You’ve Done” by Mary J. Blige, […]
Bryan Chang is a documentary filmmaker whose films have been featured in The New York Times, TIME Magazine, PBS, and Sundance Film Festival. His feature documentaries include BRASSLANDS (director), NARCO CULTURA (editor), and ISLAND SOLDIER (producer/editor). He recently directed an episode of “Art in the Twenty-First Century” on PBS, and was listed on DOC NYC’s […]
Jamie Boyle is a two-time Emmy winning filmmaker. Her work has played at Sundance, SXSW, and others. She directed and edited Anonymous Sister (DOC NYC 2021) and Take A Vote (DOC NYC 2020). She edited Trans In America (2019 Emmy winner), produced, filmed, and edited Jackson (Showtime, 2018 Emmy winner), and associate edited E-TEAM (Netflix, […]