Geeta Gandbhir is an mutiple award winning filmmaker over 25 years of experience in the industry. Her latest film, Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, will premiere on Peacock in 2022. Her short film from the HBO series Through Our Eyes won a 2022 Emmy Award.
Midwest-born and raised, David Siev is a first-generation Cambodian-Mexican-American filmmaker. Before directing Bad Axe, his SXSW award-winning feature debut based on his family’s restaurant in rural Michigan, David spent his early career learning guerilla filmmaking under director Jeff Tremaine. This experience prepared David to make his directorial debut with his award-winning narrative short, Year Zero, […]
Daniel J. Ain is Counsel for Reavis Page Jump LLP, practicing primarily in the areas of entertainment and media law. Named to Realscreen’s Factual Under 40 list in 2024, Dan represents production companies and independent producers on a broad range of television, film and digital media projects across all stages of development and production. He also […]
Ethan Hawke is a four-time Academy Award®-nominated actor, director, writer, producer and novelist. His prolific film acting credits include Dead Poets Society; Reality Bites; Gattaca; Training Day; Boyhood; the ‘Before Trilogy’; and First Reformed. He has also worked extensively in the theater and been nominated for the Drama Desk award as both an actor and […]
Maggie Pisacane is a partner at WME and runs the agency’s Documentary Group. In her role, she focuses on premium non-fiction and documentary projects, representing renowned filmmakers and some of the most prolific production companies in the non fiction space. Pisacane began her career as an associate at Sloss Eckhouse LawCo and transitioned to Frankfurt […]
Melissa Georges is counsel to the Entertainment Group and Chair of the Content Review & Clearance Group at Frankfurt Kurnit. For more than 20 years, she has helped award-winning film and television producers, directors, actors, writers, animators, and comedians resolve complex legal issues to get their projects cleared and distributed. Ms. Georges assesses all forms […]
Caren Decter is a partner in the Litigation Group at Frankfurt Kurnit, focusing on commercial and intellectual property litigation, and white collar defense. Named to Benchmark Litigation’s 2019 and 2021 40 & Under Hot List and listed as a 2022 Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers magazine, Ms. Decter represents clients in civil and criminal matters […]
Carolyn Hepburn is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producer whose recent films include American Pain (2022 Tribeca Festival, CNN Films); Unfinished Business (2022 Tribeca Festival); The Return of Tanya Tucker featuring Brandi Carlile (2022 SXSW Audience Winner, Sony Pictures Classics); In The Same Breath (HBO Docs, Oscar shortlisted); The Velvet Underground (Cannes Film Festival, Apple+, […]
Cynthia Kane co-created Sundance Channel’s DOCday and brought Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Denis Poncet’s documentary series, The Staircase (2006-Peabody-Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards) to U.S. television. At ITVS, she shepherded 150+ international and U.S. co-productions for public media. At Al Jazeera America, she commissioned documentaries and series (Albert Maysles’ final work, In Transit and duPont Award-winning […]
Sarah Rachael Wainio is one of the industry’s most sought after storytellers. Her credits include The Food Network, Magnolia Network, Netflix, TLC, and HBO. She produced the first three seasons of MTV’s seminal show “Teen Mom: Young + Pregnant,” bringing the real-life consequences of unplanned teen pregnancy to a national audience. She earned an MFA […]