Ryan White is the director of Good Night Oppy, a moving account of the extraordinary fifteen-year journey of the Mars rover Opportunity and the surprising bond that formed between the robot and a team of scientists and engineers at NASA. Good Night Oppy will be released by Amazon Studios on November 4, 2022. White last directed Coded, which was shortlisted for […]
Wendell Yohannes Hanes is an Emmy-winning TV and Film Composer, and owner of Volition Sound in New York City. He earned a Sports Emmy in 2021 and Primetime Emmy consideration in 2020 as music composer and music supervisor for the nominated Netflix sitcom Family Reunion. He scored both the Breonna Taylor documentary for Hulu as […]
Blake Neely is an award-winning composer, whose work spans film, television and the concert world. He has scored more than 35 television series and 20 films. He has received four Emmy Award nominations, two for his main title themes for the series The Flight Attendant and Everwood and two for his scores to the series […]
Dan Slepian is an award winning investigative producer and a 18-year veteran of NBC’s venerable newsmagazine, Dateline — where he has developed and produced dozens of episodes, complex hidden camera investigations, and breaking news segments. Slepian’s investigations have helped solve cold cases, assisted in exonerating wrongfully convicted inmates, uncovered corruption, sparked changes in laws, and […]
Rachel Boynton is an award-winning producer and director, known for getting access to places no one has filmed before. Her latest feature, Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are), is available to stream on Peacock. Her previous films, Our Brand is Crisis and Big Men, have won the IDA’s Best Feature Documentary Award, and have been nominated […]
Vinay Shukla is a leading filmmaker and producer in the Indian documentary landscape. His debut feature, An Insignificant Man (2016, co-director Khushboo Ranka) was internationally acclaimed, set an anti-censorship precedent, and became India’s highest grossing documentary. He also won the HBO Best Short Film Award for Bureaucracy Sonata (2011). Vinay’s films have partnered with Sundance, DocSociety, […]
Brandy Zadrozny is an award-winning investigative and features reporter for NBC News where she covers misinformation, extremism, and the internet. She’s written definitive stories on disinformation surrounding the 2020 election, QAnon conspiracy theories, and the anti-vaccination movement. She is a current research fellow at the Technology and Social Change Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein […]
Gerardo del Valle is a director and producer from Guatemala based out of New York City. His work explores the people behind the headlines and the repercussion of policy decisions on communities. He is a Firelight Documentary Lab Fellow and an SFFilm Foundation New American Fellow. His work has been supported by the International Documentary […]
Jason Pollard’s involvement in the film industry began as a young child when he accompanied his father, acclaimed film producer/editor Sam Pollard, to different edit rooms as Sam magically turned strips of celluloid into complex and wonderful stories. He has has edited many acclaimed documentary films including Slavery by Another Name, which premiered at the […]
Don Argott is an Emmy nominated filmmaker who co-owns the Philadelphia based production company, 9.14 Pictures, with producer/director, Sheena M. Joyce. Argott’s filmography includes, Rock School, Two Days In April, The Art Of The Steal, Last Days Here, The Atomic States of America, As The Palaces Burn, Slow Learners, Batman & Bill, Believer, Framing John […]