Joe Brewster is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker who believes in the healing power of stories. Drawing on his experience as a prison psychiatrist, he made his directorial debut at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival with The Keeper, nominated at the 12th Spirit Awards. Over three decades, Brewster has created genre-bending works that […]
An award-winning director, actor, and writer, Jeremy Xido is the lead in Pia Marais’ new film Transamazonia, which premiered at Locarno in 2024 and the main slate at the New York Film Festival. His feature documentary, The Bones, premiered in March 2024 at CPH:DOX and HotDocs and continues to make the rounds. His previous film, […]
Starting as a researcher for filmmaker Errol Morris, Nick Ravich has had a twenty plus year career in documentary filmmaking in which he’s had the privilege to focus on producing thoughtful and stylish arts-centric programming for television and the web. Nick is currently the Director of Production at Art21, the longrunning arts and documentary nonprofit […]
FredAnthony Smith is SVP of Non-Scripted at SMAC Productions—a division of SMAC Entertainment, the content creator, cultural connector, and business incubator founded by Constance Schwartz-Morini and Michael Strahan. Most recently, he has produced projects including Evolution of the Black Quarterback (Prime Video), Black Comedy in America (Vice), It’s in the Game: Madden NFL (Prime Video), […]
Thor Thielow is an Emmy & Cinema Eye Honors winning Cinematographer, Producer & Director based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Danielle Varga is an award-winning nonfiction producer who has been working in documentary film for the past decade. She most recently produced SEEDS, directed by Brittany Shyne, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival 2025 in U.S. Documentary Competition. She also produced Sasha Wortzel’s RIVER OF GRASS, which premiered at the […]
Zac Ryder is the Co-Founder and Co-CCO of Modern Arts, which call themselves “an agency for the post advertising age.” In 2025 he and his partner Adam Groves were named The Campaign US Creative Team of the Year for leading the agency’s groundbreaking work in the brand entertainment space including WhatsApp’s Grand Prix winning 30-minute […]
Shawn Waldron is an archivist, curator, and author with over twenty years of experience in photographic archives. For the last eight years, Shawn has been the Curator of Print Sales and Exhibitions at Getty Images and manages the Slim Aarons archive. Previously, he led the Condé Nast archive in New York.
Lina Lyte Plioplyte, a Lithuanian-born documentarian and a camera person, honed her skills in New York City, starting in 2008 with NYLON magazine and fashion brands. Over 12 years, she has directed works appearing on MTV, PBS, Venice Biennale, and at film festivals like SxSW and IDFA. Her films include Advanced Style (on Amazon) and […]
Nick Floyd has spent the last 11 years at Naxos, the leading classical music distributor in North America. He and the Naxos licensing team are responsible for sync placements in hundreds of indie films, features, television series, video games and remixes available on all video and audio platforms. Nick is a musician and lifelong student […]