A veteran of unscripted filmmaking, Geeta Sondhi‘s recent directing credits include docs The Art of Downsizing on aging (CBC, POV, Doc Channel, NHK-Japan, SBC-Sweden); Stand Up Toronto! on the politics of race and comedy (TVO, DOC Channel), and her acclaimed viral hit with 27 million social media views 100 & Counting: Secrets to a Long […]
Nisha Pahuja is Academy Award and Emmy-nominated filmmaker based in Toronto. Her latest film, To Kill a Tiger, had its world premiere at TIFF where it won the Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Feature Film. Since then, it’s won 27 awards including Best Documentary Feature, Palm Springs International Film Festival and three Canadian Screen […]
Francesca Sharper (she/her) is an emerging editor based in Brooklyn, New York. After working as an assistant editor in ads and reality TV for the early part of her career, Francesca has been working in documentary for five years. Her credits include the Peabody award winning Netflix series High On The Hog, the SXSW 2022 […]
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 […]