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 […]
Amy Foote, ACE is an Emmy Award winning documentary editor based in Brooklyn, NY. Some of her editing credits include Laura Poitras’s Oscar-nominated film All The Beauty and the Bloodshed, Father Soldier Son that won the News and Documentary Emmy for Best Editing and the Tribeca Film Festival Jury Award for Best Editing); Hail Satan?; […]
Justin Ervin is an award-winning writer, director and cinematographer of both scripted and non-scripted work. His work has appeared on notable platforms including Netflix, PBS, HBO and Hulu, and was Cinematographer on the EMMY-nominated, Netflix Original Documentary Is That Black Enough For You?!? which was also nominated for two NAACP Image Awards in 2023. Justin […]
Zac Manuel is an Academy Award-nominated director and cinematographer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Zac’s work in documentary draws from complex legacies of Southern identity, with particular interest in the impacts of history and inheritance on Black communities. Zac uses his camera to create bridges of intimacy and transparency between himself and his films’ participants, with a […]
Nathan Small comes from a photography background and made the leap to wildlife 5 years ago. Nathan is a self shooting producer/director specialising in teeny tiny things and showing people their fascinating lives. Nathan has worked on Tiny World for Apple TV, Planet Insect for Curiosity Stream, A Real Bug’s Life for Disney / NATGEO, and […]
Justine Evans is a British cinematographer who’s career as an international wildlife film maker spans over 30 years. She has worked on major natural history productions for the BBC, Disney/National Geographic, Netflix to name a few. Her work has taken her all over the world from the tropical forest canopy to deep arctic crevasses, capturing […]
Tess Skadegård Thorsen, PhD (she/her/hers), is a researcher, educator, and consultant, specialized in representation and ethics in tech, media, and film practices. A former managing editor of the Danish journal for gender research, Tess was awarded the 2022 Kraka Award for gender research. Her research has been published internationally including in ‘Women in the International […]
Pablo Durana is a Colombian born, Canadian raised and Californian based Emmy® Award–winning cinematographer and adventure photographer. As an endurance athlete, he has extensive experience filming and operating in extreme conditions, from within the world’s deepest caves in Mexico, to the towering walls of Antarctica. For almost two decades Pablo has worked with the world’s […]