October 30, 2021

Divya Kharnare

Divya Kharnare has worked for YouTube channels as a writer and director for three years and has represented India at the Thailand International Film Destination Festival 2019 as a writer, director and editor. He is currently working on two feature-length documentaries, including Letters To My Grandma, for which he received the DOCAVIV Award at DocEdge […]

October 30, 2021

Brenda Matthews

Brenda Matthews is a proud Wiradjuri woman living with her husband Mark in Bundjalung country, Queensland. Brenda is an emerging director, making her feature-film debut with The Last Daughter, a documentary about Brenda’s life. As part of her journey, Brenda penned her first book, also titled The Last Daughter, which she’s currently editing with Text […]

October 30, 2021

Andy Sarjahani

Andy Sarjahani is an Iranian-American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer raised in the Ozarks of Arkansas. He is interested in people, our relationship to place and how that shapes our worldview. He has a Masters of Science in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems from Montana State University and left his career in academia in 2012 to […]

October 30, 2021

Ludwig Hurtado

Ludwig Hurtado is a multimedia journalist, writer and filmmaker from Los Angeles, currently living in New York. He’s produced episodes of NBC’s Dateline and directed multiple award-winning digital documentary shorts for NBC News. His reporting has been featured in the The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Nation, Rolling Stone, Vice, and other publications. […]

October 30, 2021

Loulwa Khoury

Loulwa Khoury is a New York-based film editor and filmmaker who was born and raised in Beirut. She most recently edited her first award-nominated feature documentary Paradise Without People (2019). Her other work includes award-winning documentaries City of Ghosts (2017) and It Will Be Chaos (2018), White Sauce Hot Sauce (2018), The Joneses (2016) and […]

October 30, 2021

Khaula Malik

Khaula Malik is an award-winning filmmaker and artist based between Detroit and New York City. Most recently, Khaula was selected for the 2020 Tribeca CHANEL Through Her Lens program and the Cine Qua Non Revisions Lab. Her short film How The Air Feels premiered at AFI Docs, won the National Board of Review Student Award, […]

October 30, 2021

Joyce Mishaan

Joyce Mishaan is a director and Executive Producer of mostly unscripted content for major TV networks, including TLC, Discovery+, Food Network and more. She’s the Executive Producer of two new Food Network series – Ciao House and Me or the Menu – and a video producer for the 2022 MAKERS conference. She is the producer and […]

October 30, 2021

Jessamyn Ansary

Jessamyn Ansary is a writer/producer for major networks and streaming services, including: Hulu, HBO, National Geographic, Travel Channel, Food Network, and many others. She was part of the producing team on the Emmy-nominated 2014 documentary Escape Fire, and the 2012 HBO documentary, Americans in Bed. She’s currently a script writer for the long-running Oxygen true […]

October 30, 2021

Xinyan Yu

Xinyan Yu is a journalist and filmmaker based in Washington, DC. She has been producing, filming and editing news features and short documentaries at international media outlets for nearly a decade. Her 23-min BBC documentary China’s Science Revolution won the 2015 BBC Storytelling Fund and was Highly Commended for Excellent Online Production at the 2016 […]

October 29, 2021

Nada Bedair

Nada Bedair is an award-winning Egyptian filmmaker and a 2nd Year graduate film student at New York University – Tisch School of the Arts. Her work was featured in various film festivals and museums including Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, New York International Children’s film Festival and Institut du Monde Arabe in France. She is […]