Hoda Hawa is the Social Impact Sr. Manager and Impact Producer at Participant Media, the leading media company dedicated to entertainment that inspires audiences to engage in positive social change. At Participant, she focuses on building partnerships with key non-profit and NGO organizations to build campaigns around bringing global awareness and action to today’s most […]
Heidi Reinberg recently served as Consulting Producer on the documentary Born to Be, which premiered at 2019 NY Film Festival before being released theatrically by Kino-Lorber and being nominated for two Emmys. Prior to that, she produced 93Queen — a co-production with ITVS, arte SWR, and YesDocu. 93Queen had its broadcast premiere on POV before […]
Elise is Kickstarter’s Senior Director of Film. She works with filmmakers worldwide, providing tailored support and mentorship on fundraising and audience-building for films in development and production. She works to ensure the creative voices on Kickstarter come from all corners of the industry, producing work that explores the form to the fullest. Based in New […]
Duana C. Butler is an independent producer with credits that include “Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters” (Dir(s): Rosalynde LeBlanc, Tom Hurwitz; Distributor: Kino Lorber, Inc.). Ms. Butler served as the Series Director/Producer for the public television documentary series “Afropop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange” (E.P.: Black Public Media; Distributor: […]
Diane Tsai is a Taiwanese-American documentary filmmaker and journalist at TIME. Her award-winning documentary series FIRSTS, which she directed and produced with Spencer Bakalar, features 46 groundbreaking women from Hillary Clinton to Serena Williams. The series received POYi Documentary Project of the Year, a Webby Award nomination, SPD Gold Medal, official selection of the U.S. […]
DAVID FRANCE is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, New York Times bestselling author, and award-winning investigative journalist. His latest book, titled HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE (Knopf, 2016), received the Baillie Gifford Prize for best nonfiction book published in the English Language and the Green Carnation Prize, among many others. His directorial debut, HOW TO SURVIVE A […]
Carla Gutiérrez ACE is an Emmy and Eddie nominated documentary editor. She edited the Oscar nominated films RBG and LA CORONA, and recently completed PRAY AWAY (Netflix Original, Tribeca). Her latest film, JULIA, about renowned chef, and television personality Julia Child, premiered at Telluride and was an official selection of the 2021 Toronto Film Festival. […]
BOB EISENHARDT Bob Eisenhardt is a filmmaker renowned for editing documentaries. He is an Oscar nominee, a four-time Emmy winner, and a two-time winner of the Eddie award from the American Cinema Editors. He has over sixty films to his credit. His film, “Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph,” was an Academy Award nominee for […]
Bo Mehrad’s credits include THE PUNK SINGER, a documentary about musician and feminist icon Kathleen Hanna. The film won numerous awards at festivals around the globe and went on to theatrical distribution in the US and internationally. He also edited SIDEMEN: LONG ROAD TO GLORY a doc about the lives of three of the original […]
Beth Levison is an independent Emmy and Peabody-winning filmmaker based in NYC. Her most recent film, STORM LAKE, which she directed alongside director/DP Jerry Risius and also produced, premiered at the 2021 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, won the Audience Award at AFI DOCS, and is about one family’s efforts to protect their Iowan farming […]