Peter Nicks is an Emmy Award-winning director, producer and cinematographer known for the immersive documentaries The Waiting Room, The Force and Homeroom, which form a trilogy exploring health care, criminal justice and education in Oakland, California. Nicks recently co-founded Proximity Media with fellow Oakland-based filmmaker Ryan Coogler.
Chi-hui Yang is a Senior Program Officer for Ford Foundation’s JustFilms initiative and makes grants globally in documentary film, new media and visual storytelling. He manages a portfolio of grants that support artist-led, socially engaged filmmaking, advance a more equitable and inclusive documentary sector, and build the power of organizations and individuals grounded in communities […]
Sam Pollard is an Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated director and producer whose latest film is MLK/FBI. His past work includes the documentaries Four Little Girls, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Slavery by Another Name, Sammy Davis, Jr.: I Gotta Be Me, ACORN and the Firestorm, Why We Hate, and Atlanta’s Missing […]
Jean Tsien is a veteran documentary editor, producer, and story consultant. In 2020, she served as a producer on 76 Days and an executive producer on the series Asian Americans. Her editing credits include: Something Within Me, Scottsboro: An American Tragedy, Malcolm X: Make It Plain, Solar Mamas, Please Vote For Me, Dixie Chicks: Shut […]
Yvonne Welbon is an award-winning filmmaker and founder of the Chicago-based non-profit Sisters in Cinema, inspired by her documentary of the same name about the history of Black women feature film directors. She is a Senior Creative Consultant at Chicken & Egg Pictures, and has produced and distributed dozens of award-winning films, including Living With […]
Alexander Nanau is a German-Romanian filmmaker. His latest documentary Collective premiered at the 2019 Venice and Toronto film festivals and will be released in the United States in November by Magnolia Pictures and Participant. His previous documentaries include The World According to Ion B, winner of an International Emmy Award; and Toto and His Sisters, […]
For over thirty five years, Kim Longinotto has made acclaimed documentaries that have won awards from BAFTA, the Sundance Film Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival, among others. [Biography from 2015]
Dawn Porter’s film Trapped premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking. Her documentary Gideon’s Army won the Sundance Film Festival Editing Award and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and an Emmy. Her other films include Spies of Mississippi and Rise: The Promise […]
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s films include One of Us, Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You, Detropia, 12th& Delaware, Jesus Camp, and The Boys of Baraka. [Biography from 2017]