Emily Kassie is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and investigative journalist. Her feature documentary debut, Sugarcane, directed alongside Julian Brave NoiseCat, follows an investigation into abuses at a former Indian Residential School. Sugarcane, which Kassie also served as producer and cinematographer, premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Directing Award for Documentary and […]
Violet Du Feng is an Emmy® Award-winning documentary filmmaker known for creating nuanced, intimate, and thought-provoking films that explore larger social issues. Over the past decade, she has directed, produced, and executive produced more than fifteen films. Her directing credits include THE DATING GAME, which premiered at Sundance 2025 in World Cinema Documentary Competition, and […]
Ann Collins has worked as a documentary film editor in New York for more than 30 years. Recent credits include Ilana Trachtman’s Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round; the Peabody Award winning film, Can You Bring It? Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters, directed by Rosalynde LeBlanc and Tom Hurwitz; and Vanishing: A […]
Brandon Kramer is a Washington, DC-based filmmaker and co-founder of Meridian Hill Pictures with his brother Lance. Brandon directed Holding Liat (Berlinale Documentary Award Winner, 2025); The First Step (Tribeca, AFI DOCS); City of Trees (Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, PBS, Netflix); and the Webby Award-winning independent documentary series The Messy Truth (CNN). Brandon is […]
Chris Wilcha is a documentary filmmaker and commercial director whose work fuses personal storytelling with cultural critique. His latest documentary, Flipside (2024), premiered to critical acclaim and is now streaming on Apple TV. Hailed as “a masterpiece” (IndieWire) and “a revelatory film” (AV Club), Flipside explores abandoned projects, forgotten ambitions, and the search for meaning […]
David Alvarado is a documentary filmmaker who is passionate about science, technology, and human rights. His latest film, co-directed with Jason Sussberg, We Are As Gods, follows Stewart Brand’s attempt to resurrect the woolly mammoth and was adapted into an eight-part podcast by Audible Originals. Alvarado’s other notable directorial works include Bill Nye: Science Guy, […]
Elijah Stevens is a documentary producer in NYC. He associate produced HOLLYWOODGATE (BBC 2024), Emmy-nominated KING COAL (POV 2024), and Oscar-nominated FIRE OF LOVE (National Geographic Documentary Films 2022), amongst others. His work has been supported by CPH:DOX, IDFA, Ford Foundation, and others. He is a 2025-26 Sundance Producers Lab Fellow.
Fiz Olajide is a director who crafts visually rich stories centered on people in motion, framed by natural landscapes or the rhythm of real life. Blending raw vérité energy with stylized precision, her work is vivid, intentional, and guided by music that unlocks emotion and wonder. Her feature directorial debut, Imported, an international basketball documentary, […]
Joanna Griffiths is the Founder and President of intimate apparel and activewear brand Knix. Since launching the company in 2013, Joanna has been credited with helping invent the billion dollar leakproof underwear category, changing the lives of millions of people around the world. In 2022, Joanna set the record for the largest private exit by […]
Jordan Dykstra is a Brooklyn-based composer and performer specializing in both film and concert music. In addition to Holding Liat, winner of Best Documentary at the 2025 Berlinale, he scored the 2024 Oscar-winning film 20 Days in Mariupol. Past features include Blow the Man Down, Globes, Ovid, New York, and Echo. Dykstra contributed to Fair […]