Selena Lauterer has worked in public media for more than 20 years and is the founder and president of Artemis Independent, a media promotions and production company located in Boone, North Carolina. Her public television credits include Co-Producer of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning PBS series A Chef’s Life, Consulting Producer for Vivian Howard’s Somewhere […]
Essie Chambers is a writer and producer based in Brooklyn. Most recently, she produced Descendant, the Sundance award-winning documentary directed by Margaret Brown, to be released by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground and Netflix in October 2022. Her work includes the acclaimed PBS documentary The New Public and Pull Out (Amazon Prime), both directed […]
Carol Dysinger directed short documentary Learning To Skateboard In a Warzone (If You’re A Girl)) which won both the Oscar and BAFTA for best short documentary. It also won best documentary short from IDA and at Tribeca Film Festival 2019. Dysinger is known for her feature length documentary Camp Victory, Afghanistan. It premiered in competition […]
Beth Osisek is a VP of Content Development at HULU focused on documentary and limited series. She brings her decades long experience as an award winning filmmaker to the position. Since joining the Hulu team she has worked on I Am Greta, Britney – New York Times Presents, Padma Lakshimi’s Taste The Nation and Hilary. […]
Cyndee Readdean is an award-winning filmmaker. She recently co-directed/co-produced Boston School Battle (w.t.), a PBS American Experience documentary. Readdean directed/produced an episode of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University award-winning PBS series Reconstruction: America after the Civil War and the Emmy nominated ABC film The FBI & the Panther. She served as the Series Producer on […]
Inney Prakash is a film curator based in New York City. He is a Cinema Programmer at Maysles Documentary Center, Curatorial Lead for the San Diego Asian Film Festival, and Founder/Director of Prismatic Ground, a NY festival centered on experimental documentary and avant-garde film.
Gabriel Uchida is a Brazilian photographer and journalist based in the Amazon and producer of feature documentary film The Territory.
Kevin Iwashina is Head of FIFTH SEASON Documentary, a global leader in the production, distribution, financing and sales of premium film, television, and audio content. In his role, Iwashina identifies financing opportunities, handles sales and provides advisory services for media companies, global corporations and content creators in the premium non-scripted space. Formerly known as Endeavor […]
Evgeny Afineevsky directed Oscar and Emmy nominated Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom, which has galvanized people around the world to demonstrate against oppressive dictatorships; Cries from Syria, which opened hearts and minds about people trapped in civil war after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival; and Francesco, for which he earned the trust of Pope Francis, joining him on a […]
Nyneve Laura Minnear is an Editor, Writer and Story Consultant based in Brooklyn. She was Lead Editor on Little Richard – I Am Everything for CNN Films/HBOMax, premiering in U.S. Competition at Sundance 2023 and released theatrically by Magnolia Pictures. Other credits include Anita, Cannes 2023; The Vow Series for HBO; 306 Hollywood, the first documentary […]