October 1, 2023

Amy Foote, ACE

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?; […]

October 1, 2023

Justin Ervin

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 […]

October 1, 2023

Zac Manuel

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 […]

October 1, 2023

Nathan Small

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 […]

October 1, 2023

Justine Evans

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 […]

October 1, 2023

Tess Thorsen

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 […]

September 25, 2023

Pablo Durana

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 […]

September 25, 2023

Christopher Lew

Christopher Lew is a Canadian cinematographer based in Brooklyn NY. He is a member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers. In 2019 his first narrative feature film Tito won the Special Jury Award at the SXSW film festival. In 2020 he shot Haya Waseem’s feature debut Quickening which premiered at TIFF 2021. His last film Riceboy […]

September 25, 2023

Yoni Brook

Yoni Brook is a Peabody Award winning film director, producer, and cinematographer. As a director, his films have screened at Sundance, Berlinale, True/False, and the New York and Toronto Film Festivals. He co-created, shot and directed the docuseries Philly D.A. (PBS Independent Lens/Topic, Sundance, winner of Peabody, Gotham, & duPont Awards, NYTimes ‘Best TV’ of 2021). […]

September 25, 2023

Claudia Raschke

Claudia Raschke was born in Hamburg, one of the largest European ports near the Baltic Sea in Northern Germany. Throughout her childhood the chain of movie theaters owned by her mother brought Claudia into the world of film. After college Claudia studied the art and technique of cinematography on the practical level while working with […]