Ramona Diaz has been making films for close to 20 years. Her first film IMELDA (2004) premiered at Sundance where it won an award. Her film, MOTHERLAND (2017), also won an award at Sundance and had its international premiere at the Berlin Int’l FF. It was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and a Peabody […]
Traci A. Curry is an Oscar-nominated director, producer, showrunner and writer of powerful stories, with more than two decades of experience in creating compelling, in-depth narratives for multi-media platforms. Her most recent film, Attica, received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature. Traci’s work has been featured across a variety of networks, including Showtime, […]
Pamela Yates is the Co-founder of Skylight, a media organization that combines cinematic arts with the quest for justice to inspire the defense of human rights. She has been awarded the Special Jury Prize from Sundance, an Academy Award, an Overseas Press Club Award, an Emmy and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Geeta Gandbhir is an award-winning Director, Producer and Editor with over 25 years of experience in the film industry. She started her career in narrative film under Spike Lee and Sam Pollard After working for eleven years in the edit room in scripted film, with the likes of Merchant Ivory, the Coen Brothers, Robert Altman […]
Academy Award winning filmmaker Deborah Shaffer’s credits include: The Wobblies, recently added to the NFR; many human rights films, including Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements, Academy Award for Short Documentary;To Be Heard, Audience & Jury Awards at inaugural DOC NYC and Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack. www.deborahshaffer.com
Julie Cohen is an Academy Award nominated, Emmy and Peabody winning documentary director. Her films include RBG (2018, Magnolia/Particpant/CNN Films), My Name is Pauli Murray (2021, Amazon Studios) and Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down (2022, Time Studios/CNN Films), each directed alongside Betsy West. Solo projects include The Sturgeon Queens (2014, PBS/7th Art) and American Veteran […]
Aaron Hunt is the VP of dedza films, the editor in chief of scrapbook, a freelance programmer, and a writer with bylines in Filmmaker, Film Comment, Criterion, Sight & Sound, Rappler, and others.
He is a Cuban-American producer, programmer, and curator. Has worked with directors like Fernando Perez and Fatih Akin. Moved to NY in 2014 to work at Documentary Fortnight in MoMA. He is an Associate Producer and Production Manager of The King by Eugene Jarecki. In 2018 founded Latin Reel, a social impact initiative at the […]
Poh Si Teng an Executive Editorial Producer for ABC News Studios. She is the producer of ST. LOUIS SUPERMAN, a documentary short which was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Critics’ Choice Award. She was previously one of DOC NYC’s New Leaders and 40 Under 40 Filmmakers to Watch. She was formerly the […]
Opal H. Bennett is an Emmy-winning Co-Producer and Shorts Producer at POV. Her first season curating POV Shorts won the 2020 IDA Award for Best Short Form Series. Previously Opal was Shorts Programmer and Dir. of Artist Development at DOCNYC and Senior Programmer at Athena Film Festival. She has also worked with Nantucket Film Festival, […]