Derek is an Emmy and ACE-nominated documentary editor and director who has worked on dozens of documentaries on topics ranging from military corruption to SpongeBob SquarePants. He helped found the Alliance of Documentary Editors and has an internet-famous cat. His works include Academy Award nominated The Invisible War and Emmy Award winner The Bee Gees: […]
Maureen A. Ryan is a producer based in New York concentrating on narrative and documentary feature films. She is the co-producer of James Marsh’s Man on a Wire, a documentary that won the Academy Award® for Best Documentary and the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. Her other co-producer credits include Dick Johnson Is Dead, […]
Ursula Liang has worked for The New York Times Op-Docs, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, ESPN The Magazine, Asia Pacific Forum on WBAI, StirTV, the Jax Show, Hyphen magazine, New Yorker Festival, the 2050 Group publicity, and currently freelances as a film and television producer and story consultant. Her credits include: One October, […]
Noland Walker is Vice President of Content at ITVS and oversees the cultivation of independent documentary films for the award-winning public media series Independent Lens, POV, American Masters, America ReFramed and others. He also steers ITVS’ content partnerships and field relations strategies. Noland’s documentary credits include award-winning films such as Africans in America, Citizen King, […]
Annie Ning is a filmmaker and programmer with a deep love for documentary, experimental storytelling, and public media. Currently, she co-leads the programming team at the Asian American International Film Festival, where she previously served as a Documentary and Shorts Programmer. She has worked as part of programming operations at Tribeca Festival, and also as […]
Jaie joined the DOC NYC team in June, 2022. Prior to that, Jaie served for 12 years as the Miami Film Festival’s Executive Director and Co-Director of Programming, where his achievements included greatly expanding that festival’s documentary selections, as well as launching successful initiatives such as a digital screening platform, the GEMS festival, and the […]
Tammy Chu is a producer and archival producer. She has worked on documentaries for HBO, PBS, ESPN Films, Vice TV, and Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific. As a producer, Tammy worked on independent documentaries Resilience (Busan International Film Festival), which she also directed, and Play Money. She was also a producer on feature documentaries Too Soon: Comedy […]
Kira Simon-Kennedy is the co-founder and co-director of China Residencies, a multifaceted arts nonprofit that has supported more than 100 different international creative exchanges between China and the rest of the world since its inception in 2013. She is also an Academy Award nominated independent film producer on Jessica Kingdon’s first feature film Ascension 登楼叹 and […]
Keri Archer Brown is the Director of Content and Initiatives for ITVS. She is responsible for oversight and management of ITVS’ Open Call Funding Initiatives and team while also informing strategy and implementation for ITVS’ Diversity Development Fund Initiative and Short-Form Open Call. In addition to her role managing Initiatives, Keri maintains a portfolio of […]
Tracy Heather Strain, a two-time Peabody Award-winning and Emmy-nominated filmmaker, explores stories about the ways diverse peoples have experienced life in the United States. A recipient of this year’s Chicken & Egg Award, Tracy won an NAACP Image Award for Motion Picture Directing for Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto […]