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 […]
Aisling Chin-Yee is a producer, writer and director based in Montreal and Los Angeles. In 2021, New Yorker Magazine hailed her latest work, No Ordinary Man, as “a genre unto itself,” and the film premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, AFI and DOCNYC. Her feature directorial debut, The Rest of Us, also premiered […]
