Ben Selkow is an Emmy-nominated documentary film & television director, showrunner, and executive producer with over twenty years of experience making prestige docu-series, such as HBO’s Emmy-nominated “Q: Into the Storm” and “The Invisible Pilot”, Netflix’s “Rapture”, international hosted travel series like Nat Geo’s Emmy-nominated “Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller” and CNN’s Emmy Award-winning “Anthony […]
Alice is an impact and engagement consultant with more than eight years of experience using storytelling to drive social change. At Red Owl, she leads campaigns with responsive strategies and an eye for creative partnerships and community-based work. Previously, as the Director of Community Engagement and Education at POV, Alice developed strategic national engagement campaigns […]
Andrès is an independent filmmaker based in New York City, working as an editor and in post-production of documentary films. He fell for editing the way one is struck by love, by surprise and passionately. He believes in what Godard said about editing “Si mettre en scène est un regard, monter est un battement […]
Jennifer Brea is an independent filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She has an AB from Princeton University and was a PhD student at Harvard until sudden illness left her bedridden. In the aftermath, she rediscovered her first love, film. Her Sundance award-winning, Emmy-nominated feature documentary, Unrest, has screened in over 30 countries and had its […]
Megan Gilbride is a two-time Emmy-winning and Independent Spirit Award-nominated producer of narrative and documentary films. She produced the Emmy award-winning documentary Tower, which was shortlisted for the Best Documentary Academy Award, was nominated for a Peabody Award, and broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens. She produced Lovers of Hate, a Sundance Dramatic Competition premiere, released by […]
Sabrina Schmidt Gordon is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and impact strategist from NYC. Her editing debut won an Emmy, and she has continued to distinguish herself as a producer, editor, and director. Her film, Quest, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017, was nominated for a Peabody, two Emmys, two Independent Spirit Awards, and […]
Jenny Raskin is Co-Executive Director at Impact Partners. She has worked as a documentary producer, director, series producer and executive producer. Her credits includes STEP (executive producer), Trophy (executive producer), Dina (executive producer), Our Nixon (executive producer), Here Come the Videofreex (director/producer), Motherland Afghanistan (producer), On Hostile Ground (director/producer), and many others. She received her B.A. […]
Executive Director of the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC), co-founder of Montreal’s Parabola Films, Sarah has been actively involved in Canada’s vibrant film community for the past fifteen years, serving as Chair of Montreal’s documentary festival, RIDM from 2015-2021. Her company, Parabola Films, is a boutique production house known as a champion of independent filmmakers […]
Amos Mac is an artist and television writer who most recently wrote for the new Gossip Girl series on HBO Max. As an out transgender creator, Amos Mac’s work explores identity, second coming of age narratives, and intergenerational relationships through a queer lens. He’s worked across unscripted, documentary, and dramatic series including Amazon’s Transparent and […]
Chase Joynt is a director and writer whose films have won jury and audience awards internationally. With Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase co-directed No Ordinary Man, a feature-length documentary about jazz musician Billy Tipton, which was presented at Cannes Docs 2020 as part of the Canadian Showcase of Docs-in-Progress. Since premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival […]