Erika Dilday is the Executive Director of American Documentary Inc. and the Executive Producer of its award-winning documentary series POV on PBS and America ReFramed on WORLD Channel. Previously, she was the CEO of Futuro Media Group and the Executive Director of Maysles Documentary Center where she oversaw community cinema, filmmaking programs and produced the […]
Maite Alberdi won the Sundance World Cinema Documentary Award for her latest film, The Eternal Memory, a poignant look at the marriage of Chilean actress Paulina Urrutia and journalist Augusto Góngora that balances vibrant individual and collective remembrance with the longevity of an unbreakable human bond. Her previous works include The Mole Agent, which was […]
Deborah Shaffer began making social issue documentaries as a member of the Newsreel collective in the 1970s. Her first feature documentary, The Wobblies, was recently added to the National Film Registry. Her directing credits include Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements, which won the Academy Award for Short Documentary; as well as the features Fire […]
Michael Moore launched his documentary career with Roger & Me in 1989. He went on to break the documentary box office record with his 2002 Oscar-winning film Bowling for Columbine and the Palme d’Or-winning Fahrenheit 9/11, which remains the highest-grossing documentary of all time. His other notable films include the Oscar-nominated Sicko, Capitalism: A Love […]
Sonya Childress is a cultural strategist who believes in the transformative power of film. She co-directs the Color Congress, an ecosystem-builder that resources, supports, and connects organizations led by people of color that serve nonfiction filmmakers, leaders, and audiences of color across the US and territories, with Sahar Driver. As Senior Fellow with the Perspective […]
Geralyn White Dreyfous has over 180 credits as a producer and executive producer of documentary films. Those credits include Born Into Brothels; The Invisible War; 16 Shots; The Hunting Ground; Won’t You Be My Neighbor?; The Great Hack; Us Kids; The Truffle Hunters; Mija; Aftershock; and The Grab. She stands as Founder and Board Chair […]
Werner Herzog was born in Munich on September 5, 1942. He grew up in a remote mountain village in Bavaria and studied History and German Literature in Munich and Pittsburgh. He made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature- and […]
Ondi Timoner has the rare distinction of winning the U.S. Grand Jury Prize at Sundance twice — for Dig! (2004), about the collision of art and commerce through the eyes of two rival rock bands, and We Live in Public (2009), about the loss of privacy online through a NY social experiment. Her other films […]
Joan Churchill has a distinguished documentary career. She began her career as a cameraperson on films such as Gimme Shelter; Hail, Hail Rock and Roll and Jimi Plays Berkeley. She is a long-time collaborator with Nick Broomfield with directing credits on Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer; Soldier Girls and Juvenile Liaison. Among […]
Raoul Peck was born in Haiti and educated in Congo, Brooklyn and France. His credits as a documentary director include Lumumba, Death of a Prophet; Fatal Assistance; the Oscar-nominated I Am Not Your Negro; and the four-part HBO Documentary Films’ groundbreaking series Exterminate all the Brutes. His directing credits in fiction films include Lumumba; Sometimes […]