April 9, 2021

Nicole Newnham

Nicole Newnham is an Emmy-winning documentary producer and director, four-time Sundance Film Festival alumnus and six-time Emmy-nominee. Most recently she co-directed the Sundance Audience Award-winning and 2021 Oscar nominated feature length documentary Crip Camp with Jim LeBrecht. She has also recently produced two virtual reality films with the Australian artist / director Lynette Wallworth: the […]

April 9, 2021

Jim Lebrecht

James LeBrecht has over 40 years of experience as a film and theater sound designer and mixer, filmmaker, author and disability rights activist. LeBrecht co-directed and co-produced, with Nicole Newnham, the 2021 Oscar nominated feature length documentary, Crip Camp. Crip Camp received the 2020 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for feature length documentary. Jim began his career […]

April 9, 2021

Julie Goldman

Julie Goldman is an Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning producer and executive producer of documentary feature films and series. Julie is the first documentary producer to receive the Amazon Studios Sundance Institute Producer’s Award and the Cinereach Producer’s Award. She produced Nanfu Wang’s new film, In The Same Breath, which will premiere on opening night at […]

April 9, 2021

Maite Alberdi

An Academy Awards® Nominated Director and Producer, Maite is the first Chilean woman to be nominated to the Oscars. She has developed a particular style that is characterized by the intimate portrait of small worlds; her renowned label has led her to be one of the most important voices of Latin American documentary. In 2011 […]

January 6, 2021

Smriti Mundhra

Smriti Mundhra is an Academy Award-nominated director/producer and one of DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 Filmmakers to Watch. Her latest film, ​St. Louis Superman​, has been nominated for a 2020 Academy Award in the short documentary category. Her debut feature, the documentary ​A Suitable Girl​, world premiered in competition at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival […]

January 6, 2021

Peter Nicks

Peter Nicks is an Emmy Award-winning cinematographer/director known for his immersive camera work and cinema vérité style. He helmed the critically acclaimed feature documentary The Waiting Room, which won an Independent Spirit Award and was shortlisted for an Academy Award in 2012. The Force–the second in a trilogy of timely, immersive docs exploring the interconnected […]

January 6, 2021

Ophelia Harutyunyan

Ophelia Harutyunyan is a Brooklyn-based documentary and fiction filmmaker from Armenia. Most recently, she, alongside Alex Gibney and Suzanne Hillinger, directed and produced the documentary Totally Under Control, about the American government’s failed response to the Covid-19 pandemic. She produced Crazy, Not Insane (HBO) which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, and was the associate […]

January 6, 2021

Chris Renteria

Chris Renteria has produced and directed films focusing on social and environmental challenges, and the brilliant people at the center advocating for change in communities across America. Most recently, he served as cinematographer for the Academy Award-nominated St. Louis Superman, directed by Smriti Mundrah and Sami Kahn (MTV Documentary Films). Magnolia Pictures’ Whose Streets? by […]

January 6, 2021

Hao Wu

Wu’s documentary films have received funding support from The Ford Foundation JustFilms, ITVS, Sundance Institute, Tribeca Film Institute, NYSCA and international broadcasters. His previous feature documentary, People’s Republic of Desire, about China’s live-streaming phenomenon, won the Grand Jury Award at the 2018 SXSW. Wu followed that film with All in My Family, a Netflix Original […]

January 6, 2021

Jennifer Maytorena Taylor

Producer/Director/Cinematographer Jennifer Maytorena Taylor makes colorful, character-based films about real people with extraordinary stories, often with Spanish-language content. Her work has shown at venues like the Sundance, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Locarno Film Festivals, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, New York Museum of Modern Art, PBS, Sundance Channel, Al Jazeera, and NHK-Japan. Jennifer’s latest short […]