Milton Guillén is a visual artist, filmmaker, and the senior programmer at CIFF/Points North Institute. Their work explores the cinematic intersections of radical collaborative non-fictions and political dreamscapes, focusing on human rights and aesthetics. Milton’s films and installations have screened globally at the Venice Biennale, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, DOK Leipzig, True/False, CIFF, and several dozens […]
Stephanie Jenkins has over a decade of experience seeing documentary films from development to delivery. She has worked with Ken Burns and Florentine Films since 2010, on multiple projects including their eight-hour series Muhammad Ali (PBS, 2021), The Central Park Five (2012), Jackie Robinson (2015), and East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story (2020). She […]
Ephraim Kirkwood is an Emmy nominated filmmaker whose editing credits include the Peabody award winning Netflix series High On The Hog and the SXSW Grand Jury Award-winning feature film Master Of Light. His other editorial contributions include ESPN’s 30 For 30, HBO’s original special Between The World And Me, and the Hulu award winning docu-series […]
Annina Wettstein is a Zurich and Berlin-based programmer, curator and consultant on festival strategies and project development. Since 2018, she has been on the selection committee for DOK Leipzig. She has worked with international film festivals in various roles for 15 years, including as head of program at Solothurn Film Festival. She was a programmer […]
Sylvia Desrochers is currently EVP, Film and Entertainment at MPRM Communications. During her two decade career, she has worked with lauded filmmakers such as Academy Award winners John Ridley, Freida Mock, James Moll, Susanne Bier, Sofia Coppola, Curtis Hanson, and Alfonso Cuaron – as well as Liesl Tommy, Lauren Hadaway, Tig Notaro & Stephanie Allynne, […]
Julie Gratz is an Emmy®-nominated animation director, producer, and motion graphics artist. She founded the award-winning production company Kaleida Studio in 2013, focusing on animation, motion graphics, and augmented reality art. Kaleida has become the preferred GFX and animation hub for Academy Award-winning directors like Alex Gibney (Jigsaw Productions) and networks such as Netflix, HBO, […]
Amanda Mustard is a Brooklyn-based queer filmmaker and photojournalist raised on a Christmas tree farm in rural Pennsylvania. She began her career as a photojournalist during the Arab Spring In Egypt, and spent a decade working regularly for clients like the New York Times and National Geographic first in the Middle East, and then in […]
Carolyn Gartner, LCSW, FT is the founder and director of The Center For Integrated Grief. She is a licensed clinical social worker and a Fellow in Thanatology (the study of dying, death and bereavement). She has an advanced certification in grief counseling and a certification in Mindfulness. She utilizes IFS and Jungian Shadow Work in […]
Jennifer Zelaya, LICSW, LCSW, MPH, is a licensed independent clinical social worker and public health practitioner with over thirteen years of diverse and practical experience in the fields of public health and social work. As a clinician and consultant, she has worked with adolescents and adults in supporting them through trauma, grief, anxiety, and depression. […]
Sean Donnelly is the founder of the animation company AWESOME + modest which operates out of Los Angeles, California. They specialize in animation for documentaries and have created unique animations for projects like HBO’s The Lady and the Dale, Hulu’s Queenmaker, HBO’s The Stroll, Showtime’s The One and Only Dick Gregory, Davis Guggenheim’s Waiting for […]