Michelle Leung is a video journalist and producer. She spent the first five years of her career producing short form documentaries at Vice, where she focused on issues like gender, immigration and racial equality. She is currently producing and directing for the Emmy award-winning show Axios on HBO.
A.K. Sandhu employs documentary filmmaking and photography to revive absent narratives that have been buried or suppressed. Her work crosses into experimental docu-hybrid modes of storytelling, probing themes such as race, class, spirituality, and cross-cultural solidarity. Inspired by her father’s family photographs, A.K. exited a career in finance to pursue her love for visual storytelling. […]
…my babysitter scored beta tapes of jaws, empire strikes back and clash of the titans. after seeing those, I wanted to work in post production.
Byron Hurt is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and adjunct professor at Columbia University. Hurt is the former host of the Emmy-nominated series, Reel Works With Byron Hurt. Byron Hurt’s acclaimed documentary Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006, and broadcast on PBS’ Emmy-award winning series Independent Lens in 2007. […]
Jonathan Schaerf is the Head of Documentaries & Strategic Partnerships at Propagate Content, a a multimedia entertainment studio with over 25 active series on the air across all genres. Propagate’s recent documentaries include the Emmy-nominated series, HILLARY (Hulu), LFG (HBO Max), UNTOLD (NETFLIX), BURNING (Amazon Prime Video), with a large slate of feature documentaries and […]
Nanfu Wang is an award-winning Chinese filmmaker based in the U.S. She is a recipient of the 2020 MacArthur Genius Grant. Her feature documentaries include Hooligan Sparrow (Sundance 2016), I Am Another You (SXSW 2017, Special Jury Prize winner), One Child Nation (Sundance 2019, Grand Jury Prize Winner), and In the Same Breath (Sundance 2021). […]
Ali Moss is an Emmy Award-nominated documentary producer. In 2012, she co-founded The Public Good Projects, whose mission is to leverage the power of the media to make complex problems easier to understand. She EP’d Sleepless in America (National Geographic); served as an executive at Discovery, where she co-produced Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman; produced the Emmy-nominated […]
Daniel J. Chalfen is a Peabody and duPont winning and multiple-Emmy nominated film and television producer, and a co-founder of Naked Edge Films. His films have premiered at the world’s foremost film festivals, including Berlin, Sundance, SXSW, Toronto and Tribeca, have been released in the US by companies including Samuel Goldwyn Films, Participant Media, Kino […]
After twenty years of working freelance in film, television, theater and video production in New York City and Los Angeles, Hellura transitioned into programming. In 2008, she became Maysles’ Cinema’s first producing partner when she launched a community-based documentary film series, Doc Watchers. In addition to programming for Doc Watchers, she has served as a programming Consultant for the New York […]
Sonia Kennebeck is an independent filmmaker with 18 years of directing and producing experience. Her most recent feature documentary United States vs. Reality Winner premiered at SXSW 2021, and her documentary thriller Enemies of the State was selected for TIFF 2020. Kennebeck’s first feature-length film National Bird premiered at Berlinale 2016, received the Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize and […]