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.
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sarah Mosses is the Founder & CEO of Together Films. Her career has focussed on strategy & fundraising for social impact entertainment campaigns across the US & UK, working on titles such as the Oscar-Nominated For Sama, Unrest & Roll Red Roll. She has presented her strategies at leading forums including Hot Docs, CPH:Dox, and […]
Alex Hannibal is Senior Director of content development for CNN Films. Hannibal joined CNN in 2016 and is responsible for the development and acquisitions of CNN Films titles. Most recently, she served as executive producer for a short film anthology produced by Scheme Engine and as supervising producer for DREAMLAND: The Burning of Black Wall […]
Sky Dylan-Robbins is an award-winning journalist, producer, and the founder and Executive Director of the Video Consortium, a global network that supports, develops, and connects the new generation’s documentary filmmakers and video journalists. Uniting thousands of nonfiction video storytellers from over a hundred cities across the globe, the Video Consortium is working to democratize the […]
Samara is the Executive Director of The Flaherty. Founded in 1954, The Flaherty brings together an ever-expanding community of filmmakers, scholars, curators, and cinephiles around a shared belief in the transformative, world-building power of independent non-fiction cinema. www.theflaherty.org Samara is also a programmer, scholar, filmmaker, and mother. She was Senior Programmer at the Points North […]