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 […]
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.