Erica Ginsberg is a writer, documentary filmmaker, story consultant, and project manager with a dual background in the arts and public diplomacy. She co-founded the Washington DC-area documentary film organization Docs In Progress and served as its founding executive director for more than a decade. She currently co-hosts The D-Word, a peer-to-peer global community for […]
Milisuthando Bongela (b.1985, South Africa) is an award-winning writer, editor, cultural worker and artist. Her career began in the fashion industry but the last 15 years has seen her traverse the worlds of music, art, media and film – continually turning towards indigenous knowledge. For 3 years she was Arts Editor for the Mail & […]
Kimberley Ferdinando is a journalist and filmmaker with two decades of experience in nonfiction storytelling. As Executive Producer at NBC News Studios, she oversees documentary films and series as a hands-on creative producer throughout all stages of production. Kimberley’s most recent film, The Disappearance of Shere Hite (dir. Nicole Newnham) premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and […]
Currently a Lead Senior Editor at National Geographic, Adam Lingo is an experienced documentary editor that embraces the collaborative process. He values the teamwork, culture, process, and sausage-making in the filmmaking journey as much as the final product. Adam is excited to work on projects which challenge & explore our shared humanity. His editing credits […]
Mridu Chandra is BAFTA and Emmy nominated producer of award-winning documentaries and fiction films that cover topics of civil rights, environmental and racial justice, and gender equality. These films have premiered at Sundance, Telluride, and SXSW; aired on PBS, Disney+, HBO and Netflix; and screened for members of the U.S. Congress and the United Nations. […]
Debra McClutchy is a NYC based documentary filmmaker/archival producer. She co-originated and co-directed THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT (2022), nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short and distributed by Netflix. Debra co-produced the feature documentary THE BOOKSELLERS (2019), distributed by Greenwich Entertainment. For over a decade, she was a senior creative member at Oscilloscope […]
Nick Canfield is a Director and Cinematographer from New York City. He got his start as camera assistant to legendary documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles, developing an intimate vérité style as a cinematographer and archivist for Maysles Films. His first film, the feature music documentary The Reverend, won the Audience Award at DOC NYC, was distributed […]
Sean Weiner is a film producer and artist community builder based in the Lower Hudson Valley of New York. Sean is the Co-Director of UFO, a filmmaker support organization built upon a philosophy of inclusion and collaboration that provides short film labs, feature film residencies, and grants opportunities to early career and experienced independent filmmakers. […]
Melanie Vi Levy, Director & Producer is a documentary editor, producer and director based in New York. As a documentary filmmaker, she was a lead editor on the NEH-funded feature-film, Hillbilly (Winner, Best Documentary LA Film Festival). She has contributed as editor to feature films including What She Said, The Art of Pauline Kael (Berlinale, Telluride Premiere), […]
Nancy Solomon is a senior reporter and the founding managing editor of New Jersey Public Radio, which won a 2014 Peabody Award for Chris Christie, White House Ambitions and the Abuse of Power. Her latest project is the podcast, Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery. Solomon fell in love with radio reporting and […]