Sharon Shattuck is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker and podcast host. Picture A Scientist was an official selection of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and broadcast on PBS’s NOVA. Her feature doc, From This Day Forward, was a New York Times Critic’s Pick and aired on PBS’s POV. She’s the co-creator of the New York Times […]
Born in Mexico City, director Rodrigo Reyes makes films deeply grounded in his identity as an immigrant artist. His work has received the support of The Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE), Sundance and Tribeca Institutes, and the Firelight Media’s William Greaves Fund. He is the Co-Director of the BAVC Media Mediamaker Fellowship program and a proud […]
Richard Peete is a New York-based filmmaker, producer and founder of Neighborhood Watch. He has produced films including Blue Ruin (Cannes 2013), See Know Evil (DOC NYC 2018), The Six Sides of Katharine Hepburn and Fashion At War: Crafting The Nazi Brand. His directorial debut Karen Dalton: In My Own Time (DOC NYC 2020, Greenwich […]
Nneka Onuorah is an acclaimed filmmaker, producer and activist of Nigerian-American descent whose projects focus on championing empathy and social justice. Her work includes HBO’s Legends of the Underground; GLAAD Award-nominated The Same Difference; Unt. Big Grrls with Lizzo for Amazon; The G Word with Higher Ground for Netflix; and commercials/campaigns for Cadillac and Fivr.
Hannah directed and produced HBO’s Baby God (SXSW 2020) and The Last Cruise (SXSW 2021). Prior to making her own films, Hannah worked as a producer on PBS’s American Experience and Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. She created the story concept for the 2019 Netflix series Who Killed Malcolm X?. Hannah is […]
Ashley O’Shay is a director-DP based in Chicago, IL, whose work focuses on illuminating marginalized voices. In 2020, she premiered her debut feature, Unapologetic, a deep look into the Movement for Black Lives in Chicago, told through the experiences of two young, Black queer women. The film premiered at the 2020 BlackStar Film Festival and […]
Habiba Nosheen is a Peabody and three-time Emmy award-winning investigative journalist and filmmaker. Her work includes Outlawed in Pakistan (Sundance, ITVS, FRONTLINE) and The Devil’s Advocate (ITVS). She is the creator and host of an upcoming investigative podcast series with Gimlet Media and Spotify. She is also in development for her next documentary with the […]
Angelo Madsen Minax is a multi-disciplinary artist whose works have shown at BAM CinemaFest, KurzFilm Hamburg, the Leslie-Lohman Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the European Media Art Festival, and others. His new film North By Current (2021), premiered at Berlinale and the Tribeca Film Festival, and will screen on PBS as part of […]
Sura Mallouh is Palestinian-Canadian documentary filmmaker. She is an NBCU Academy and NBC News Studios Original Voices Fellow and a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Grantee. Her documentaries have been featured on CBC GEM, CBC Short Docs, CBC Arts, Upworthy and have been viewed globally. Sura’s documentaries focus on contextualizing underrepresented stories with an investigative […]
Julia C Liu is a Providence, Rhode Island-based director, cinematographer and artist, interested in exploring stories that center BIPOC voices. Her passion for visual storytelling started through her comics, evolving into filmmaking as a way to bring her illustrations to life. Liu is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild, Local 600 and a graduate […]