Ibrahim Nash’at (Director/Co-Producer/Cinematographer) (born June 17, 1990 in Jeddah) is a multi-award-winning Egyptian documentary filmmaker based in Berlin, Germany. In his career in journalism, he has woked with several international channels and online platforms such as Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera, Business Insider, AJ+, Voice of America, and others. Ibrahim holds a master’s degree in documentary […]
Sean Jefferson is Counsel in the Entertainment Group at Frankfurt Kurnit. Mr. Jefferson has wide-ranging experience in entertainment and media, representing financiers, production companies, producers, filmmakers, athletes, writers, and independent distributors. He has negotiated complex single picture and slate multi-party financings on behalf of producers and financiers. He has also represented producers in recent cutting-edge […]
Hayden Goldblatt is a partner and Co-Chair of the Frankfurt Kurnit Entertainment Group in New York, where he focuses on motion picture, television, and digital media work. Mr. Goldblatt has wide-ranging experience in all areas of entertainment and media law, representing producers, writers, directors, documentary filmmakers, financiers, lenders, and independent distributors. He has negotiated complex […]
Samia Khan is an award-winning filmmaker, producer, and thought leader. She is a 2024 Sundance x Doris Duke Fellow and CAAM Fellow. She was recently named by Forbes Magazine and the World Economic Forum as one of the top filmmakers creating compelling character-driven films on climate change. As a commercial director, Samia has worked with […]
Marc H. Simon is Chair of Fox Rothschild’s National Entertainment & Sports Law Department and a veteran entertainment attorney with a broad range of experience in film, television and digital media. His clients include film and television companies, financiers, producers, talent, influencers, directors, writers and other content creators, as well as businesses in the digital, […]
Anupama Srinivasan is a filmmaker, film educator and curator based in Delhi, India. She did her BA in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University and went on to study filmmaking at the Film & Television Institute of India, Pune. She has been making documentaries for over two decades, often shooting and editing her own work. Her […]
Lucien Harriot, President & VFX Supervisor of Mechanism Digital since 1996, has been producing award-winning visual effects, animation, and emerging media for film, TV, and marketing in New York City. Leveraging new technologies and advanced workflows including GenAI, the team at Mechanism enhances production value for professional entertainment and marketing storytellers. As a trailblazer in […]
Rabab Haj Yahya (She/Her) is a Palestinian-American documentary editor based in New York. She is best known for The Feeling of Being Watched (Tribeca, 2018 | POV, 2019), which earned her the Best Editing Award at Woodstock Film Festival (2018), and the Critic’s Choice-nominated Speed Sisters (Hot Docs, 2015 | Netflix). More recently, she edited […]
Stephen Maing is an Emmy-award winning director and cinematographer. His films are cinematic investigations of societal phenomena, complex power structures and the fascinating individuals who challenge them. His feature documentary Crime + Punishment, which he directed, filmed and edited, won a Special Jury Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, an Emmy for Outstanding Social […]
Zeshawn Ali is a filmmaker originally from Ohio and currently based in New York. His feature documentary film,“Two Gods,” was supported by ITVS, Ford Foundation, and Sundance Institute and was selected in festivals across North America. It was released in theaters nationwide as well as on broadcast as a part of “Independent Lens” on PBS. […]