Kathryn Everett is an award-winning filmmaker who works at the intersection of politics, philanthropy and film. Kathryn is Head of Film at the premium nonfiction studio XTR and a co-founder of nonfiction streaming platform DOCUMENTARY+. In her tenure at XTR, Kathryn has executive produced Oscar-nominated, Emmy and Peabody award-winning documentary feature and short films. Previously, […]
Neha Shastry is an award winning documentary filmmaker. She has produced and directed films across 5 continents for clients like CNN, Amazon Studios, National Geographic, Netflix and Vice News. Because of her background in journalism, she is known for taking nuanced and balanced approaches in her storytelling, letting the truth reveal itself in her films. She […]
Xan Parker is a documentary producer based in New York City. She executive produced the upcoming series “Mind/Trip” directed by the award-winning team of Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, Lana Wilson and Steve Maing. She was the creative producer of Ron Howard’s 2020 film “Rebuilding Paradise” (National Geographic) and of Ross Kauffman’s “Tigerland” (Discovery 2019). Xan […]
Emelie Mahdavian is an Emmy, Peabody, and Sundance Award-winning filmmaker who was selected for DOCNYC’s 2020 “40 Under 40” list. Her nonfiction feature BITTERBRUSH premiered at Telluride Film Festival in 2021. She produced, wrote, and edited MIDNIGHT TRAVELER, which won numerous international prizes and was nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Documentary. She is […]
Co-Director/Producer/Director of Photography Daniel A. Nelson worked as a cinematographer and researcher on Oscar-nominated director David France’s feature-length documentary THE DEATH AND LIFE OF MARSHA P. JOHNSON, which celebrates the lasting political legacy of trans icon Marsha P. Johnson and seeks to finally solve the mystery of her unexplained death, that premiered at the 2017 […]
Natalie Pattillo is an award-winning filmmaker and multimedia journalist based in New York City. Her reporting bylines include the New York Times, MSNBC, VICE, Jezebel, New York Magazine, Al Jazeera America and Salon. In 2020, she was awarded the Media Award from the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. She received a Master’s degree from Columbia […]
Ben Moskowitz is an associate in the Entertainment Group at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz. His clients are primarily production companies and producers in the unscripted and documentary space. Ben has recently served as production counsel on a number of celebrity-related projects including “Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It” for […]
Derek Howard is a director and cinematographer who earned a BFA from Simon Fraser University. His collaborations on short and feature length documentary and fiction films have led to screenings at the Venice Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Telluride, Sundance Film Festival, HotDocs, IDFA, Clermont-Ferrand, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montreal), Festival des Films du […]
Dawn Porter is an American documentary filmmaker and the founder of the production company Trilogy Films. Her award-winning films include Gideon’s Army (2013), about three black public defenders working in the southern United States, Spies of Mississippi (2014), about the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission (MSSC) efforts to preserve segregation during the 50s and 60s, Trapped, […]
Naiti Gámez has worked as a cinematographer and director on award-winning films and TV series. Her film, “Love, Sadie” premiered at the Festival de Cannes Short Film Corner. Film credits have screened at festivals worldwide including Festival de Cannes, Sundance Film Festival, Berlinale, Camerimage, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, TIFF, Festival du Cinema de Paris, among […]