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Jacob Fertig is a New York-based nonfiction filmmaker, archival producer, and Co-Founder of Denizen Studios. His films have played at festivals including AFI, Hot Docs, and NOFF, and been published by Scientific American and New York Magazine. He’s been a featured speaker and panelist at SXSW and NYU, and selected pitcher at Big Sky, AIDC, Edinburgh Pitch, AFO, and Ji.hlava. His archival producing work spans museums to magazines, including exhibits at Ellis Island and The Holocaust Center and front page articles in Tablet. His projects have received support from Field of Vision, Tribeca Institute, Docs by the Sea, Amnesty International, Forensic Architecture, Doc Society, and thousands of donors. He is a former Art & Impact Fellow, Full Frame Fellow, NYU Feature Development Studio Fellow, and a Senior Fellow at Humanity in Action. He holds a BFA in Film & Television and an MPA in Public Policy from NYU.

Jaydn Ray Gosselin is a US-based, French-Australian documentary director, producer, cinematographer, and editor, and Co-Founder of Denizen Studios. Jaydn’s films have been supported by Field of Vision, Doc Society, Amnesty International, Forensic Architecture, the Ads-Up Refugee Network, and over 1,300 individual donors. His productions have been covered in Forbes, New York Magazine, and Scientific American, among others. He has simultaneously produced and edited films that have premiered at major festivals, including SXSW, Hot Docs, AFI, and NOFF. He has been selected to pitch at Big Sky, AIDC, Ji.hlava, AFO Camp 4Science, and Edinburgh Pitch. He is a Co-Creation Lab Fellow at Doc Society; an Art & Impact Fellow at Doc Society and AIDC; a Doc.Lab.Interact Fellow with Anagram, VicScreen, and AIDC; and a Development Studio Fellow at the NYU Production Lab. He holds a BFA in Film & Television from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.