Emmy-winning and Grammy-nominated director, Lisa Cortés, creates powerful art that shines light on hidden stories. From producing Precious to directing Little Richard: I Am Everything, her work sparks cultural change. Cortés Filmworks is committed to telling complex stories from new perspectives and elevating overlooked talent.
Judith Mizrachy is a New York City-based independent producer. Her credits include The Martha Mitchell Effect (Sundance 2022), released by Netflix and nominated for a 2023 Academy Award for Best Short Documentary, The Booksellers (New York Film Festival 2019), and most recently, Uncropped (DOC NYC Centerpiece 2023).
David Fear is the chief film critic of Rolling Stone and was a critic/editor at Time Out New York from 2004 to 2013. His work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Village Voice, Film Comment, Spin, NY Daily News, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian, among others. He’s a member of […]
Kartiki Gonsalves is an Academy Award-winning director & filmmaker, who made history as the first Indian film director to ever win an Academy Award (for The Elephant Whisperers). She founded Earth Spectrum where she uses storytelling to raise awareness about bio-diversity and culture. Her prime focus is environmental and cultural diversity documenting conservation efforts and […]
J.M. Harper’s directorial debut is As We Speak (Sundance 2024), a documentary about rap lyrics on trial (Paramount+). A multi-hyphenate documentarian, he edited the Emmy-nominated Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy (Netflix, Sundance 2022); Down a Dark Stairwell (PBS, Criterion Channel); and Don’t Go Tellin’ Your Momma (New York Times OpDocs), which won Jury Awards at Sundance […]
Carlos A. Gutiérrez is the co-founding executive director of Cinema Tropical, the New York-based nonprofit media arts organization established in 2001, which has become the leading promoter of Latin American cinema in the U.S.