JD is a veteran film editor of documentary features and series. His background also includes post supervision, music editing, and sound design. His work has premiered at some of the top film festivals in the world including Sundance (2016, 2020, 2023), Cannes (2025), Toronto (2017), Tribeca (2022, 2025), South by Southwest (2014), and Berlin (2015). […]
Ayana Baraka, named one of Variety’s 10 Cinematographers to Watch in 2024, is an Emmy-winning Producer and Director of Photography based in New York. A voting member of the TV Academy and one of only six Black female DPs in IATSE Local 600, she has had films premiere in consecutive years at Tribeca. Most recently, […]
Jonathan Hock is an 11-time Emmy Award winning documentarian. After a decade at NFL Films, Hock founded an independent production company specializing in sports documentaries. Through the Fire premiered at Tribeca in 2005 and became the first documentary ever acquired by ESPN. Hock was a member of the original class of directors for ESPN’s 30 […]
Abby Greensfelder is the founder and CEO of Everywoman Studios, a purpose-built media company whose mission is to tell female-focused stories that might not otherwise be told, and that can have a positive cultural impact. Everywoman Studios is Greensfelder’s second entrepreneurial venture. She co-founded Half Yard Productions, an award-winning production company specializing in non-fiction series […]
Visionary media leader. Founder, entrepreneur, and angel investor. Creator and champion of women-led organizations. Her latest venture, Catalyst, is dedicated to content creation for the global marketplace by powering women creators and investing in their ideas. Julie Bristow has been influencing how people watch television for the past 25 years. She has created thousands of […]
Will Thwaites is a documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. He’s worked on projects for Netflix, Amazon, National Geographic, and PBS. Will was a producer on two acclaimed Netflix series: Full Swing and My Next Guest with David Letterman. He started his career at Kartemquin Films (Oscar-nominated producers of Minding the Gap and Hoop […]
Joe Brewster is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker who believes in the healing power of stories. Drawing on his experience as a prison psychiatrist, he made his directorial debut at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival with The Keeper, nominated at the 12th Spirit Awards. Over three decades, Brewster has created genre-bending works that […]
An award-winning director, actor, and writer, Jeremy Xido is the lead in Pia Marais’ new film Transamazonia, which premiered at Locarno in 2024 and the main slate at the New York Film Festival. His feature documentary, The Bones, premiered in March 2024 at CPH:DOX and HotDocs and continues to make the rounds. His previous film, […]
Starting as a researcher for filmmaker Errol Morris, Nick Ravich has had a twenty plus year career in documentary filmmaking in which he’s had the privilege to focus on producing thoughtful and stylish arts-centric programming for television and the web. Nick is currently the Director of Production at Art21, the longrunning arts and documentary nonprofit […]
FredAnthony Smith is SVP of Non-Scripted at SMAC Productions—a division of SMAC Entertainment, the content creator, cultural connector, and business incubator founded by Constance Schwartz-Morini and Michael Strahan. Most recently, he has produced projects including Evolution of the Black Quarterback (Prime Video), Black Comedy in America (Vice), It’s in the Game: Madden NFL (Prime Video), […]