October 31, 2021

Lauren Haber

Lauren Haber is a Brooklyn-based, Emmy-winning producer and mom of two whose experience spans documentary and scripted, features and series. She is currently Head of Development at Impact Partners. Her recent credits include the Independent Spirit and Peabody-winning series Immigration Nation (Netflix), Ry Russo Young’s Nuclear Family (HBO), and French visual artist JR’s latest documentary […]

October 31, 2021

Èlia Gasull Balada

Èlia Gasull Balada is a NAACP Image Award-nominated filmmaker who works in documentary and fiction. As an editor and writer, her documentary credits include the Emmy and Peabody nominee The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show and the Emmy and Grammy nominee The King. She also edited the feature narrative Son of Monarchs, winner […]

October 31, 2021

Leah Galant

Leah Galant is a Jewish director and Fulbright Scholar based in New York whose storytelling focuses on unexpected narratives. Leah’s directorial debut On The Divide premiered at the Tribeca 2021 Film Festival and will broadcast on POV PBS in Spring 2022. She was a Sundance Ignite and Jacob Burns Fellow, where she created Death Metal […]

October 31, 2021

Zackary Drucker

Zackary Drucker is an independent artist, filmmaker, and cultural producer. She has performed and exhibited her work internationally in museums, galleries and film festivals. Drucker is an Emmy-nominated producer for the docuseries This Is Me, and was a producer on the Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning Amazon show Transparent. The Lady and The Dale, her […]

October 31, 2021

Lauren DeFilippo

Lauren DeFilippo is a Brooklyn based filmmaker and partner at Insignia Films where she recently produced Ailey (Sundance 2021.) The feature documentary was released in theaters nationwide by NEON and will be broadcast on PBS in 2022. Lauren’s directorial debut Red Heaven (SXSW 2020) will be released by Utopia Films in Fall 2021.

October 31, 2021

Maya Cueva

Maya is a Latina award-winning director and producer. She is a Netflix Nonfiction Director and Producer fellow and won a student Emmy in 2015. Her recent short documentary Ale Libre was acquired by The New Yorker and her first feature documentary film, On The Divide, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2021 and will be […]

October 31, 2021

Isabel Castro

Isabel Castro is a Mexican-American filmmaker; she directed the Emmy-nominated short USA v Scott (Tribeca 2020, The New Yorker); Emmy-nominated Darlin (Tribeca 2019, NYT OpDocs); and the Emmy-nominated Netflix docu-series Pandemic. Her directorial debut, Crossing Over, (Univison/Participant Media) won a 2015 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary. Castro has worked at The New York Times, […]

October 31, 2021

Yael Bridge

Yael Bridge is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker. Her feature, The Big Scary “S” Word, traces the history and resurgence of socialism in the US and premiered at Hot Docs 2020. Prior to that she produced Left on Purpose, winner of the Audience Award at DOC NYC, and Saving Capitalism, which was nominated for an Emmy. She […]

October 31, 2021

Tabs Breese

Tabs Breese is a documentary producer. She began her career working for companies including Pulse Films and Concordia Studio. Her slate includes Isabel Castro’s Mija, Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan’s Naked Gardens and Zara Meerza’s short The Twins. Tabs is a Refinery29 x Google News Fellow, an IDFAcademy Producer School Alumna, a Sundance Grantee and […]

October 31, 2021

Asadullah Muhammad

Asad Muhammad, VP of Impact & Engagement Strategy at American Documentary | POV leads on the community engagement, education, and public station relations work necessary to extend the impact of films beyond their broadcast date. POV is American television’s longest-running showcase for independent nonfiction films. Asad leads the POV Engage team whose charge is to […]