Elizabeth Woodward is a producer and founder of Willa Productions. She was selected for Forbes 30 Under 30, DOC NYC 40 Under 40, Berlinale Talents, the Impact Partners Producers Fellowship. Past projects include ON THE DIVIDE (Tribeca Film Festival, POV on PBS) and YOU RESEMBLE ME (Venice Film Festival, executive produced by Spike Lee, Spike […]
A creative producer based in Chicago, Nevo’s award-winning films have been nominated at The Academy Awards, shown at film festivals including Sundance and SXSW, and acquired by Disney+, HBO Max, POV/PBS, the NY Times and The Criterion Channel.
Sura Mallouh is a Palestinian-Canadian documentary filmmaker. She is a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Grantee and NBC Original Voices Fellow. Her documentaries have been featured on CBC Short Docs, CBC Arts, Upworthy and have been viewed globally. She was listed as one of the DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 documentary talent honorees in 2021. […]
Daniel Hymanson’s first feature So Late So Soon screened at True/False, DOC NYC, and BAFICI. Oscilloscope Pictures released the film theatrically. Organizations including Catapult, The Gotham, Illinois Arts Council, and Sundance Institute have supported his work. Filmmaker Magazine named him one of its “25 New Faces of Independent Film” and DOC NYC included him on […]
Èlia Gasull Balada is a NAACP Image Award-nominated visual artist and filmmaker. Her body of work is focused on stories that underscore deeply felt themes of trauma, race, inequity and activism in the face of steep odds. Her latest work examines the experiences of the Shipibo-Conibo women of the Peruvian Amazon who suffered the trauma […]
Tabs’ films include Isabel Castro’s ‘Mija’ (Sundance, CPH:Dox 2022) and Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan’s ‘Naked Gardens’ (Tribeca, IDFA 2022). ‘Mija’ is nominated for the Cinema Eye Audience Prize, IDA’s Best Feature and Indie Spirits’ Truer Than Fiction. Tabs is a twice Sundance Institute Grantee. She was in Doc NYC’s 2021 ‘40 Under 40’ and […]
Lauren Haber is a Brooklyn based Emmy-winning producer and Head of Development at Impact Partners. Recent credits include MIJA (Disney+), AFTERSHOCK (Onyx Collective), Nuclear Family (HBO), AILEY (PBS/Neon) and PAPER & GLUE (MSNBC). Previously, she produced for filmmakers Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau, collaborating on features Trophy and Narco Cultura, and series including Independent Spirit Award and Peabody winner Immigration Nation on Netflix.
Sareen is an Armenian-Jordanian documentary filmmaker based in the US. Through an intimate observational style, she tells stories of underrepresented communities. Her HBO documentary We Are Not Done Yet follows US veterans grappling with PTSD who write poetry to heal. She is directing, producing and shooting her first feature documentary, an international co-production that’s supported […]
Sara Khaki is an Iranian-American documentary director, producer and editor. A Sundance film Institute grantee, Sara is dedicated to telling stories related to women’s rights and empowerment, shedding light on those who have been neglected. Her co-directed short, Our Iranian Lockdown, featured on the Guardian, was nominated for the 2020 IDA Awards, which led to […]
Patrick G. Lee (he/they) is a queer diasporic Korean documentary filmmaker, writer and community organizer. He’s interested in building collaborative, community-based models of filmmaking that equip queer and trans people of color with media-making skills. His short film Unspoken won several festival awards, including the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short at the Austin […]