Vanessa Carr is a documentary cinematographer specializing in character-driven cinema vérité. Her long list of credits includes On Pointe (Disney+), Free Money (Netflix), and multiple HBO films. Her work has been on every major platform and screened in festivals including IDFA, Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, and TIFF. She is currently directing and shooting her first feature […]
Viridiana Lieberman is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. She’s edited many award-winning films including The Sentence (HBO), I Am Evidence (HBO), Through Our Eyes: Apart (HBO Max) and Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (Peacock). She also edited Love the Sinner (Tribeca Film Festival), Special Olympics: 50 Years of Changing the Game […]
Joe Peeler directed Bad Press, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression. In 2014, Joe edited the short documentary The Lion’s Mouth Opens, which was shortlisted for the Academy Awards. Since then, his work has appeared on Netflix, HBO, FX, ESPN, Hulu […]
Camilla Hall is an award-winning documentary film director and executive producer. She co-directed Subject and has directed films/series with Discovery, HBO Max Europe, Sky, and Arte. She executive produced Black Barbie: A Documentary alongside Shonda Rhimes and produced Sirens alongside Maya Rudolph and Natasha Lyonne. She is co-founder of Lady & Bird Films with Rita Baghdadi and Jennifer Tiexiera.
Sarah is a documentary producer and nonfiction television director whose credits include The Food Network, TLC, MTV, Netflix, and Max. She earned an MFA in Social Documentary Film from the School of Visual Arts. Sarah is Secretary of the board of the Documentary Producers Alliance and co-chairs the ethics subcommittee. She lives in NYC with […]
Kelsey has worked in independent documentary for over a decade and is currently the VP of Production at Impact Partners, a fund that supports powerful documentary films addressing pressing social issues. Since joining IP, she has been involved with the development of 100+ projects and has spoken on panels about funding, distribution, and impact at […]
Raised on Guam, Lailanie Gadia is a Filipina American community builder, producer, and financial professional based in Los Angeles. Serving as the Asian American Documentary Network (A-Doc)’s Operations Director, Lailanie finds purpose in supporting and empowering underrepresented voices. She is an Associate Producer on Tadashi Nakamura’s Third Act, a 2022 LEAP Impact alum and graduated […]
Jamie is the COO of Represent Justice, a nonprofit that builds narrative power for formerly incarcerated filmmakers, film participants, and activists. As a founding steering committee member of GIPA she is co-leading an effort to preserve impact-related exhibition rights in distribution deals. As a director/producer her work has screened at MoMA, Full Frame, and AFI […]
Scott Kaplan is the CEO of CoverStory, a non-fiction production company. A producer with 20 years of film and series sales and distribution under his belt with 1000+ projects sold to streaming platforms and TV networks around the world. In the past 2 years since shifting to producing, he and his partner Emmet McDermott have […]
