Martin Scorsese has interwoven documentary making throughout his distinguished career. His latest nonfiction work is Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story. Among his other acclaimed nonfiction films are The 50 Year Argument; George Harrison: Living in the Material World; No Direction Home: Bob Dylan; The Blues; My Voyage to Italy; The Last Waltz; A […]
Anita is passionate about telling stories of minorities and having their voices heard through film and art. She is currently the Shorts Programmer and Program Manager for the Nantucket Film Festival and has done stints at Tribeca Film Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival, Philadelphia Film Festival, and more. Anita grew up in Rome, Italy but […]
Allyson Morgan is an award-winning writer, producer, performer, and film festival veteran, having most recently worked with Brooklyn Film Festival, Indie Street Film Festival, Montclair Film Festival, Nantucket Film Festival, and Tribeca Festival, among others. Allyson’s first short film Need For Speed (Dating) premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, while her next short, Sitting, won “Outstanding […]
Valerie is an Associate Producer of DOC NYC’s Industry and Education programming, including DOC NYC PRO; Only In New York industry meetings for filmmakers with works-in-progress; and the 40 Under 40 list. Before joining DOC NYC, she served as Director of Exhibitor Relations and In-Theater Marketing at film distributors, A24 and Greenwich Entertainment.
Christine Turner is an award-winning filmmaker based in New York City. Most recently, she directed Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business (Sundance 2020) about the 93-year-old artist. Previously, her documentary Homegoings (Documentary Fortnight at MoMA 2013) about a renowned funeral director in Harlem, aired on PBS POV.
Nanfu Wang is a Chinese filmmaker based in New York City. She directed and produced the feature documentaries Hooligan Sparrow (Sundance 2016, shortlisted for the 2017 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature), I Am Another You (SXSW 2017, Special Jury Prize winner), and One Child Nation (Sundance 2019, Grand Jury Prize Winner, shortlisted for the 2020 Academy Award for Best Documentary […]
Malika Zouhali-Worrall is a British-Moroccan filmmaker based in New York. An Emmy Award-winning director, her directing credits include Call Me Kuchu (Berlinale, 2012), Thank You for Playing (Tribeca, 2015), Earn A Living (ARTE/IDFA, 2018), and an upcoming short for PBS American Masters, Strange Grace: The Art of Amyra Leon.
Poh Si Teng is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist and the director of IDA Funds and Enterprise Program. She is the producer of St. Louis Superman, which was nominated for an Academy Award in the short documentary category, and won a Critics’ Choice Award. In 2020, she was one of DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 […]
Emily Strong is an NYC-based documentary filmmaker and freelance location sound mixer (Taylor Swift: Miss Americana). She produced Keep Moving Forward (Big Sky Documentary Film Festival); and co-produced A Letter for Sang-Ah (2018 Loni Ding Social Justice Award at CAAMFest). Her personal work centers around ethnic grocery stores and the communities they serve; cooking, and human behavior.
Kristine Stolakis is a director whose films examine how power, politics, and prejudice unfold in real people’s lives. Her debut feature Pray Away (Tribeca / Telluride 2020) takes you inside the “pray the gay away” movement and is a Multitude Films production. She proudly hails from North Carolina and central New York.