Muta’Ali is an award-winning film director known for acclaimed documentaries such as MoviePass, MovieCrash; Cassius X: Becoming Ali; Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn; and Life’s Essentials with Ruby Dee. His 2021 Gracie Award winning documentary short Hear Her Voice showcased the disparity in maternal mortality affecting the black community.
Moses Bwayo is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker originally from Bududa, Uganda. In 2016, Moses started his own production company in Kampala, and the following year began shooting and co-directing Bobi Wine: The People’s President. During the production, Moses was arrested, imprisoned, shot and threatened, forcing his relocation to the United States. In 2024, Bobi Wine: […]
Kate Davis is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker for Traffic Stop, which also won DOC NYC’s Short Documentary Competition. Davis has won Peabodys for The Newburgh Sting and Stonewall Uprising, an Emmy for Jockey, and a NAACP Award for Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland. Southern Comfort won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize […]
Maxim Pozdorovkin is an award-winning director and writer based in New York. He has directed seven feature documentaries and multiple shorts. Maxim holds a PhD from Harvard University for a dissertation on early propaganda and is a frequent media commentator on Russian politics.
Academy Award, BAFTA, WGA and Emmy nominee Ramin Bahrani is the Iranian-American writer, director and producer of such films as Man Push Cart, Chop Shop, 99 Homes and The White Tiger. His debut feature documentary 2nd Chance premiered at Sundance and was released by Bleeker Street and Showtime.
Eric Hynes is Senior Curator of Film at Museum of the Moving Image in New York, where he heads up year-round programming as well as the annual First Look Festival. He is also a longtime critic and journalist, with outlets that have included the New York Times, the Washington Post, Film Comment, Rolling Stone, Slate, […]
Faridah Gbadamosi is a pop culture-lover of film, working towards making the space more inclusive in whose stories get told and who gets to author those stories. She has extensive experience as a film programmer. In addition to her curation work, Faridah has provided consultations to several film/TV projects and non-profit organizations, published articles on […]
Zeva Oelbaum is a documentary director and producer. She produced the multi-award-winning Ahead of Time, and co-directed and produced Letters from Baghad (voiced and exec produced by Tilda Swinton) with Sabine Krayenbühl. Oelbaum’s most recent film, Obsessed with Light, voiced by Cherry Jones and co-directed/co-produced with Krayenbühl, will be released theatrically in NYC/LA in December […]
Tania Cypriano is a filmmaker working between the United States and her native Brazil. Her most recent documentary, Born to Be, premiered at the NY Film Festival and was nominated for two Emmy Awards. She is a co-founder of the Brazilian Filmmakers Collective and presently directs the Films Fellowship Program at the Bronx Documentary Center.
Nick August Perna is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has been nominated for the Emmys, the Duponts, and the Academy Awards. He aims to present complex stories that challenge the shape and power of the documentary form. His latest film, Tell Them You Love Me, premiered on Netflix in June 2024.