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 […]
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). […]
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 […]
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 […]