Akmyrat Tuyliyev is a producer at MIT Open Documentary Lab and a Visiting Assistant Professor at ASU’s Master’s in Narrative and Emerging Media program in Los Angeles, CA. His VR documentary “1991” was part of the Venice Biennale College Cinema VR, IDFA DocLab Forum, and NewImages Festival XR Market. Akmyrat has produced and directed new […]
Tristen is an experienced strategic creative lead at Getty Images, managing a team of visual researchers and curators focused on both identifying and influencing the creation of powerful, resonant, and innovative visual content for the wider advertising and marketing industry. With a career spanning well over a decade and varying roles in marketing, research, creative, […]
AX Mina is a queer nonbinary filmmaker, artist and author. She consults on research for the Archival Producers Alliance and is director and producer of Rubbish: The Queer Kingdom of Leilah Babirye. She is a Senior Civic Media Fellow at the USC Annenberg School for Journalism and Communications and member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia […]
Peter Bowman is a documentary editor from North Carolina. Most recently, he edited Cover-Up (2025) and was an additional editor on the Emmy Award-winning Girls State (2024). He has worked on documentary features and series for AppleTV, Netflix, and PBS.
JD is a veteran film editor of documentary features and series. His background also includes post supervision, music editing, and sound design. His work has premiered at some of the top film festivals in the world including Sundance (2016, 2020, 2023), Cannes (2025), Toronto (2017), Tribeca (2022, 2025), South by Southwest (2014), and Berlin (2015). […]
Ayana Baraka, named one of Variety’s 10 Cinematographers to Watch in 2024, is an Emmy-winning Producer and Director of Photography based in New York. A voting member of the TV Academy and one of only six Black female DPs in IATSE Local 600, she has had films premiere in consecutive years at Tribeca. Most recently, […]
Jonathan Hock is an 11-time Emmy Award winning documentarian. After a decade at NFL Films, Hock founded an independent production company specializing in sports documentaries. Through the Fire premiered at Tribeca in 2005 and became the first documentary ever acquired by ESPN. Hock was a member of the original class of directors for ESPN’s 30 […]
Abby Greensfelder is the founder and CEO of Everywoman Studios, a purpose-built media company whose mission is to tell female-focused stories that might not otherwise be told, and that can have a positive cultural impact. Everywoman Studios is Greensfelder’s second entrepreneurial venture. She co-founded Half Yard Productions, an award-winning production company specializing in non-fiction series […]
Visionary media leader. Founder, entrepreneur, and angel investor. Creator and champion of women-led organizations. Her latest venture, Catalyst, is dedicated to content creation for the global marketplace by powering women creators and investing in their ideas. Julie Bristow has been influencing how people watch television for the past 25 years. She has created thousands of […]
Will Thwaites is a documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. He’s worked on projects for Netflix, Amazon, National Geographic, and PBS. Will was a producer on two acclaimed Netflix series: Full Swing and My Next Guest with David Letterman. He started his career at Kartemquin Films (Oscar-nominated producers of Minding the Gap and Hoop […]