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.
An NYC native, Lesley Steele is an editor, director and 16mm cinematographer. Her visual language in both digital and analog reflects the juxtaposition of formats to explore new meaning in the moving image. Her work has been shown at Blackstar Film Festival and the NYC Independent Film Festival. In 2019 she was a fellow in […]
Jiayan “Jenny” Shi is a Chicago, Illinois-based documentary filmmaker. Her debut documentary Finding Yingying won the Special Jury Recognition for Breakthrough Voice at 2020 SXSW. Jenny is a graduate of Kartemquin’s Diverse Voices In Docs program and a fellow of the Inaugural Women at Sundance Adobe Fellowship.
Zach Seivers is an Emmy award-winning sound designer from North Carolina, now based in Los Angeles, California. His most recent work can be heard in the unscripted series We’re Here (HBO), the feature documentary Ask Dr. Ruth (Hulu), archival docuseries The Decades (CNN), and true crime docuseries The Keepers (Netflix).
Anya Rous is a Brooklyn, New York-based producer and the vice president of production at Multitude Films, an award-winning production company dedicated to stories by and about underrepresented communities. Her recent credits include Pray Away (Telluride 2020), and Always In Season (Sundance Special Jury Award Winner 2019). She was a Sundance Creative Producing Fellow and Impact Partners Producing […]