As a director, producer and cinematographer, Kevin Shaw has created award-winning content for national television networks. Shaw was a segment director and cinematographer on America to Me, and cinematographer on City So Real, both series from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Steve James. Shaw’s debut documentary about Basketball Hall of Fame coach Bob Hurley Sr., The Street […]
Sara Newens is a Los Angeles-based documentary filmmaker and Emmy-award winning editor who began her career working for CBS News in New York City. She recently collaborated with Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering on the HBO docuseries Allen v. Farrow, which garnered 7 Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Picture Editing as well as Cinema Eye Honors […]
Claire Ave’Lallemant (she/her) is a queer female-identifying documentary editor based in New York City and Charlotte, NC. She chose to forgo the traditional college path and pursue a hands-on education which she received as an assistant editor on Cecilia Aldarondo’s award-winning feature documentary, Memories of A Penitent Heart (Tribeca 2016 & POV 2017). In 2018, […]
Derek is an Emmy and ACE-nominated documentary editor and director who has worked on dozens of documentaries on topics ranging from military corruption to SpongeBob SquarePants. He helped found the Alliance of Documentary Editors and has an internet-famous cat. His works include Academy Award nominated The Invisible War and Emmy Award winner The Bee Gees: […]
Maureen A. Ryan is a producer based in New York concentrating on narrative and documentary feature films. She is the co-producer of James Marsh’s Man on a Wire, a documentary that won the Academy Award® for Best Documentary and the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. Her other co-producer credits include Dick Johnson Is Dead, […]
Ursula Liang has worked for The New York Times Op-Docs, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, ESPN The Magazine, Asia Pacific Forum on WBAI, StirTV, the Jax Show, Hyphen magazine, New Yorker Festival, the 2050 Group publicity, and currently freelances as a film and television producer and story consultant. Her credits include: One October, […]
Noland Walker is Vice President of Content at ITVS and oversees the cultivation of independent documentary films for the award-winning public media series Independent Lens, POV, American Masters, America ReFramed and others. He also steers ITVS’ content partnerships and field relations strategies. Noland’s documentary credits include award-winning films such as Africans in America, Citizen King, […]
Tammy Chu is a producer and archival producer. She has worked on documentaries for HBO, PBS, ESPN Films, Vice TV, and Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific. As a producer, Tammy worked on independent documentaries Resilience (Busan International Film Festival), which she also directed, and Play Money. She was also a producer on feature documentaries Too Soon: Comedy […]
Kira Simon-Kennedy is the co-founder and co-director of China Residencies, a multifaceted arts nonprofit that has supported more than 100 different international creative exchanges between China and the rest of the world since its inception in 2013. She is also an Academy Award nominated independent film producer on Jessica Kingdon’s first feature film Ascension 登楼叹 and […]
Keri Archer Brown is the Director of Content and Initiatives for ITVS. She is responsible for oversight and management of ITVS’ Open Call Funding Initiatives and team while also informing strategy and implementation for ITVS’ Diversity Development Fund Initiative and Short-Form Open Call. In addition to her role managing Initiatives, Keri maintains a portfolio of […]