In November 2021, Ray Boyd was released from the Connecticut Department of Correction. He was incarcerated at the age of 17 and served 30 years. During his incarceration, in 2015, Ray cofounded the Skills of Socialization (S.O.S.) program at the Osborn Correctional Institute, and in 2018 he cofounded the T.R.U.E. Reentry program at the Cheshire […]
Annie Taylor is an Emmy nominated Foley Editor who has worked on documentaries such as Retrograde and Amend: The Fight for America. Her goal is to enhance the storytelling with sound, and to have the audience feel immersed in the documentary’s subject with the use of texture, layering, and finesse to create a comprehensive and […]
Brooklyn born and bred artist Tamar-kali is a second-generation musician with roots in the coastal Sea Islands of South Carolina. As a composer, Tamar-kali has defied boundaries to craft her own unique alternative sound. Her debut LP “Black Bottom” challenged the alt-rock norm with media calling it “an ambitious new adventure into metal, classical, and progressive […]
Alyse Shorland is a two-time Emmy and Peabody-winning director and producer, who’s made great things with HBO, NBC Studios, One Story Up, VICE, CBS, FX, HULU, CNN, and the New York Times. Her work marries artful filmmaking with journalistic curiosity and rigor, and she has helped craft some of the most ambitious films, series, and […]
Peter Yearwood contracted polio as an infant in his home country, Belize, and has lived with a disability his whole life. In 1970, he emigrated to Brooklyn and met the mother of his children. When that relationship ended, Pete fell into the street life, using and selling drugs. In 2015, many years sober, Pete moved […]
Alexis Neophytides is a documentary filmmaker and educator based in New York City. Her work centers around community and how we find meaning in people and place. She is the co-creator/co-director/producer of Neighborhood Slice, a public television documentary series that tells the stories of longtime New Yorkers who’ve held onto their little corner of the […]
Tyler H. Walk is a Sundance Special Jury Award for Editing, Cinema Eye award winning, and Emmy-nominated editor whose projects include David France’s Welcome To Chechnya, the Oscar-Nominated How To Survive A Plague, and Michael Moore’s Where To Invade Next. A graduate from Penn State University (’06) and The Edit Center, Tyler is also an […]
Joe Brewster is a Harvard-trained physician and an award-winning immersive and documentary filmmaker whose character-driven work challenges the audience to envision an equitable future. He is a Spirit Award and four-time Emmy nominee. Brewster, a two-time Sundance jury prize winner, resides in Brooklyn with his partner, Michèle Stephenson (and cat, Tama).
Michèle Stephenson is a platform-agnostic artist who pulls from her Caribbean roots to create stories centering the lived experiences of the Black diaspora. She is a four-time Emmy Award nominee, a Guggenheim and Creative Capital fellow and a jury prize winner at Tribeca and Sundance Festivals. Stephenson lives in Brooklyn with her creative and life […]
Ryan Loeffler is a documentary filmmaker and editor based in Los Angeles, California. He cut his teeth as an assistant editor and additional editor on award-winning documentaries from some of the most accomplished documentary directors working today, including Robert Kenner, Brett Morgen, Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin. Most recently, he edited Food., Inc. 2, the […]