Tair is the program coordinator at IFC Center and a ticketing associate at DOC NYC. She has previously worked at Quad Cinema and Rooftop Films and has always been passionate about cultivating the cinematic experience. Tair is from Israel and initially moved to New York to study film production at New York University. She enjoys […]
Elyse is a documentary programmer, storyteller, and life-long student. Her passion for non-fiction media and public media have led her to program for the Asian American International Film Festival and work on a film project with CAAM. Although she loves all parts of the filmmaking process, her favorite part is being able to share stories […]
DeWitt has been working with film and cinema presentations for over 15 years. He has been with DOC NYC since the first year of the festival and an Associate Programmer of Shorts since 2018. Over the years he has worked for multiple North American film festivals in the technical and programming teams. He also worked […]
Kim Garcia is a New York based filmmaker whose work has shown at Newfest, Fringe! Queer Film and Art Fest, and Seattle Queer Film Festival. She has filled various roles in exhibition and operations at Tribeca Film Festival, CAAM, NewFest, and Nantucket Film Festival. Currently, she is a screener for American Documentary’s POV program and […]
Bedatri D. Choudhury is The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Arts and Entertainment Editor. Before this, she worked extensively with documentary films, particularly in the areas of program management and commissioning. She was most recently the Managing Editor of Documentary magazine, and is a programmer with DOCNYC and SFFILM. An alumna of the NYFF Critics Academy, Sundance and […]
Jenny Raskin is Co-Executive Director at Impact Partners. She has worked as a documentary producer, director, series producer and executive producer. Her credits includes STEP (executive producer), Trophy (executive producer), Dina (executive producer), Our Nixon (executive producer), Here Come the Videofreex (director/producer), Motherland Afghanistan (producer), On Hostile Ground (director/producer), and many others. She received her B.A. […]
Executive Director of the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC), co-founder of Montreal’s Parabola Films, Sarah has been actively involved in Canada’s vibrant film community for the past fifteen years, serving as Chair of Montreal’s documentary festival, RIDM from 2015-2021. Her company, Parabola Films, is a boutique production house known as a champion of independent filmmakers […]
Amos Mac is an artist and television writer who most recently wrote for the new Gossip Girl series on HBO Max. As an out transgender creator, Amos Mac’s work explores identity, second coming of age narratives, and intergenerational relationships through a queer lens. He’s worked across unscripted, documentary, and dramatic series including Amazon’s Transparent and […]
Chase Joynt is a director and writer whose films have won jury and audience awards internationally. With Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase co-directed No Ordinary Man, a feature-length documentary about jazz musician Billy Tipton, which was presented at Cannes Docs 2020 as part of the Canadian Showcase of Docs-in-Progress. Since premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival […]
Aisling Chin-Yee is a producer, writer and director based in Montreal and Los Angeles. In 2021, New Yorker Magazine hailed her latest work, No Ordinary Man, as “a genre unto itself,” and the film premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, AFI and DOCNYC. Her feature directorial debut, The Rest of Us, also premiered […]