Chris Wilcha is a documentary filmmaker and commercial director whose work fuses personal storytelling with cultural critique. His latest documentary, Flipside (2024), premiered to critical acclaim and is now streaming on Apple TV. Hailed as “a masterpiece” (IndieWire) and “a revelatory film” (AV Club), Flipside explores abandoned projects, forgotten ambitions, and the search for meaning […]
David Alvarado is a documentary filmmaker who is passionate about science, technology, and human rights. His latest film, co-directed with Jason Sussberg, We Are As Gods, follows Stewart Brand’s attempt to resurrect the woolly mammoth and was adapted into an eight-part podcast by Audible Originals. Alvarado’s other notable directorial works include Bill Nye: Science Guy, […]
Elijah Stevens is a documentary producer in NYC. He associate produced HOLLYWOODGATE (BBC 2024), Emmy-nominated KING COAL (POV 2024), and Oscar-nominated FIRE OF LOVE (National Geographic Documentary Films 2022), amongst others. His work has been supported by CPH:DOX, IDFA, Ford Foundation, and others. He is a 2025-26 Sundance Producers Lab Fellow.
Fiz Olajide is a director who crafts visually rich stories centered on people in motion, framed by natural landscapes or the rhythm of real life. Blending raw vérité energy with stylized precision, her work is vivid, intentional, and guided by music that unlocks emotion and wonder. Her feature directorial debut, Imported, an international basketball documentary, […]
Joanna Griffiths is the Founder and President of intimate apparel and activewear brand Knix. Since launching the company in 2013, Joanna has been credited with helping invent the billion dollar leakproof underwear category, changing the lives of millions of people around the world. In 2022, Joanna set the record for the largest private exit by […]
Jordan Dykstra is a Brooklyn-based composer and performer specializing in both film and concert music. In addition to Holding Liat, winner of Best Documentary at the 2025 Berlinale, he scored the 2024 Oscar-winning film 20 Days in Mariupol. Past features include Blow the Man Down, Globes, Ovid, New York, and Echo. Dykstra contributed to Fair […]
Lance Kramer is a Washington, DC-based filmmaker and co-founder of Meridian Hill Pictures. Lance produced Holding Liat (Berlinale Documentary Award Winner 2025); The First Step (Tribeca, AFI DOCS); City of Trees (Full Frame, PBS, Netflix); and the Webby Award-winning documentary series The Messy Truth. Lance served as an Advisor to the 2025 Sundance Documentary Film […]
Lars Skree is a Director of Photography from Copenhagen from the Danish National Film School. Skree’s filmography includes several award-winning works, such as Putin’s Kiss, for which he won the Best World Cinema Cinematography award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011. He was also Emmy-nominated for his work on the documentaries Armadillo, the Oscar-nominated […]
Mia Bruno is a producer of marketing and distribution, designing and executing distribution strategy, theatrical booking, impact campaigns, sales, and grassroots marketing. Mia infuses innovation into the traditional distribution framework, working with filmmakers both who are working with distributors or who are self-releasing their films. Mia creates campaigns that elevate films in the marketplace and […]
Paul Moakley is the executive producer at The New Yorker, where he curates and produces the magazine’s Oscar-winning short-film program. In this role, he also produces and directs original short films and videos for The New Yorker. He’s earned numerous awards and accolades for his documentary work, including an Emmy for his role as a […]