Tara Nadolny is a producer, developer, and writer who brings her passion for nonfiction storytelling to her current role as Associate Director of Development at ESPN. She works across original content for ESPN+ and 30 for 30, the award winning documentary series encompassing feature documentaries, shorts and podcasts. Prior to joining ESPN, Tara led development […]
Philip Shane is a renowned documentary filmmaker with a thirty-year career steeped in technological innovation and exploration. He was co-director & editor of Being Elmo (Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival), and producer & editor of the two hour feature documentary, Einstein (2008, History editor of Dancing in Jaffa, […]
Stephanie is an organizer, writer, and film producer leading strategic campaigns that use documentary films to build movement power. For more than 20 years, she has worked with grassroots movements to challenge systemic inequities, and joined Peace is Loud in 2016, where she oversees their documentary film impact campaigns and Collective Lens impact trainings, and […]
Lisa Leeman believes that documentaries can change the world, one story at a time. Her films illuminate contemporary social issues through intimate character-driven stories that follow people at critical turning points. She is currently directing a follow-up to her groundbreaking first film, Metamorphosis (Sundance, Filmmakers Trophy; POV, 1990). Roger Ebert named Leeman’s One Lucky Elephant […]
Margie Ratliff is a producer and key participant of Subject, where she examines her participation in the 2018 Netflix true-crime documentary, The Staircase. After receiving her MFA from Columbia College Chicago in documentary filmmaking, she has worked at companies such as The Gersh Agency and Imaginary Forces in Los Angeles. She is currently starting the […]
Martina is a German/Syrian filmmaker and cinematographer, based in New York City. Her recent credits include Food and Country, Boys State, Inventing Tomorrow, The Final Year and Saving Face, the 2012 Academy Award and Emmy Winner for Short Documentary, which earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Cinematography. Her directorial debut Spring in Awe won […]
Maxine’s latest critically acclaimed feature documentary To Kid or Not To Kid? has played in theaters and on TV networks around the world and can be found streaming on Amazon. She has directed feature docs, hour long series, short documentaries and branded content for BBC, Discovery, Sundance Channel, PBS, TNT, and many more. She started […]
Nailah Jefferson is a native New Orleans filmmaker whose fiction and nonfiction work explores the enduring human spirit. Nailah’s debut documentary Vanishing Pearls: The Oystermen of Pointe a la Hache, told the story of the little known African American oyster fishing community in Louisiana in the aftermath of the 2010 BP Oil Spill. In 2017, […]
Evyenia Constantine is the Head of Social Impact at Odyssey Impact® where she leads the impact team, and strategy and execution for all impact campaigns and initiatives. She is a graduate of Northwestern University’s School of Communication where she earned a Master’s degree in Leadership for Creative Enterprises, graduating summa cum laude. She holds a Bachelor’s […]