Raeshem Nijhon is founder of Culture House – a Black, Brown and Women owned production company. Along with her partners, Carri Twigg and Nicole Galovski, they produce entertainment forward work at the intersection of pop and politics. Current projects include premium doc series The Hair Tales with Tracee Ellis Ross and Oprah Winfrey for Hulu […]
Nausheen Dadabhoy is a director and cinematographer of both documentaries and fiction. Her second feature documentary, An Act Of Worship, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and was co-produced by PBS’ POV and broadcast nationally. As a cinematographer, she has lensed an Oscar-nominated live action short film, and an Emmy-winning feature documentary. Her work has screened […]
Pax Wassermann is an editor, producer and writer with over twenty-five years in film and television. His recent work includes the Telluride Film Festival premiere Becoming Cousteau, the Sheffield Grand Jury prize winner City of Ghosts, and two seasons as editor and producer of the Showtime series The Trade. Other past documentary work includes Academy […]
Talleah Bridges McMahon is an award-winning director/producer who has worked on documentaries for CNN, ABC and PBS. Most recently, she directed an episode of Through Our Eyes for HBO Max. Previously, she directed the Emmy-nominated series America Since MLK: And Still I Rise. Prior to that, she co-produced two episodes of the six-hour series The […]
Ross Kauffman is the Academy Award®-winning director of the feature documentary BORN INTO BROTHELS. In 2014, Ross directed E-TEAM (co-directing with Katy Chevigny), a documentary about four intrepid human rights investigators. The film debuted at The Sundance Film Festival and garnered Kauffman the Best Cinematography Award for a Documentary Feature. His feature TIGERLAND debuted at […]
Melissa Georges is Chair of the Content and Clearance group at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz. She advises award-winning film, television and documentary producers, directors, writers, podcasters, comedians and animators on complex legal issues, such as defamation, fair use, copyrights and trademarks, rights of publicity and privacy, and parody and satire, in order to get […]
Julia Bodner is an agent in WME’s Non-Fiction TV Group based out of New York. She represents talent, production companies and filmmakers, primarily packaging and selling premium documentary series, feature documentaries and reality television shows. Julia specializes in working with strong female voices both in front and behind the camera, and is passionate about telling […]
Cinque Northern is an Emmy nominated, Peabody award-winning filmmaker and editor who’s passionate about the intersection of creative cinema, social impact, and the empowerment of artists. Recent works include The One and Only Dick Gregory (Showtime) for which Cinque was field director and editor. He also co-wrote and edited My Name is Pauli Murray (AmazonStudios) […]
Yael Melamede – Filmmaker. Yael Melamede is the co-founder of SALTY Features – an independent production company based in New York City whose goal is to create media that is thought-provoking, vital, and enhances the world. Melamede’s documentary credits include the Jigsaw Productions/Amblin Entertainment six-part series WHY WE HATE (2019), STRAIGHT/CURVE (2017), WHEN I WALK […]
Alisa Payne’s producing career spans over 20 years. Her credits include the acclaimed HBO film special Between the World and Me, the reprisal of the successful NY Times Op Doc series The Conversation (PBS), the historic 2016 Democratic National Convention, and a host of short films, television series and specials. Her work has won a […]