Sheridan O’Donnell is a disabled (legally blind), Korean-American writer-director based in Los Angeles whose work centers on identity and family through character-driven stories that balance catharsis, darkness, and humor. His feature debut, Little Brother, starring J.K. Simmons, won the Audience Award at the 2023 Atlanta Film Festival and was distributed by Gravitas Ventures. He most […]
Liz Sargent is a Korean-American adoptee and award-winning filmmaker whose work explores adoption, disability, and family through an intimate, visually expressive lens. A writer-director with a background in choreography, she draws on movement to convey complex emotional states. Her intersectional identity and experience as the middle child of eleven siblings deeply inform her storytelling. Her […]
Isaac Zablocki the CEO and co-founder of the ReelAbilities Film Festival, the premiere disability film festival. He is the Director of film programs at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan. He attended film school at Columbia University and worked at Miramax films. Previously, he produced and directed feature films and developed film educational programs for the Department of Education. Since […]
Christopher White has been a film editor and story consultant of numerous award-winning films for over twenty years. His films have premiered at The Sundance Film Festival, The Tribeca Film Festival, The New York Film Festival, SXSW, DocNYC and The Toronto Film Festival, and have been presented on most of the major broadcasters and streamers. […]
Flavia de Souza began her career in post-production in New York in the 1990s, working across reality television, institutional media, and news before focusing primarily on documentary film over the past 15 years. Her recent work includes Razing Liberty Square (2025 News & Documentary Emmy nominee) and Aftershock (2022 Sundance Impact for Change Special Jury Award […]
Davis is a senior digital security trainer at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF). In her time with FPF, she has reached thousands of journalists, filmmakers, and media makers through her engaging training sessions, as well as her contributions to FPF’s security guides. Prior to joining FPF, Davis worked as a program director at a […]
Harlo is the chief security programs officer at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF). She leads a team that boosts newsmakers’ confidence and effectiveness in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist. Harlo was a regular contributor to […]
Isadora Johnson is a sales agent at Cinetic Media and works on a wide array of documentary and narrative festival films, most recently working on NO OTHER LAND (2025 Academy Award Winner, Best Documentary), MAD BILLS TO PAY (Sundance 2025), SEEDS (Sundance 2025), THE ONLY GIRL IN THE ORCHESTRA (2025 Academy Award Winner, Best Documentary Short). […]
Margo Guernsey is a documentary filmmaker, impact strategist, and founder of Time Travel Productions LLC. Her films are deeply collaborative and include robust outreach and community screening tours. Directing and Producing credits include: Councilwoman (America ReFramed 2019), No Time To Fail (America Reframed 2023), The Philadelphia Eleven (DIY community-driven distro and American Public Television 2025), […]
Marc Lesser is an Emmy nominated director and founder of Lucky Tiger Productions in New York City. Recent projects include producing and editing Keïta La a documentary short about renowned photographer Seydou Keïta, currently screening at the Brooklyn Museum; producing, directing, shooting and editing The Memories of Others: Akihiko Okamura’s Ireland a documentary short, screening at […]