Michael Renov, professor of Critical Studies and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, is the author of Hollywood’s Wartime Woman: Representation and Ideology and The Subject of Documentary, editor of Theorizing Documentary, and co-editor of Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices, Collecting Visible…
Amy Berg is a critically acclaimed, Oscar and Emmy nominated documentary filmmaker. Her first film, Deliver Us From Evil, was nominated for an Academy Award and a DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary in 2007. She then went…
Geralyn White Dreyfous is an Academy Award winning producer with a wide, distinguished background in the arts. She spent an early part of her career at the Philanthropic Initiative in Boston, which guides families of wealth in strategic giving opportunities,…
Jason Spingarn-Koff is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist and media executive. He is Professor of Journalism and Knight Chair of Climate Journalism at UC Berkeley, where he’s working to reinvent how stories about climate change are told. From 2015 –…
Keisha Knight (she/her) is the Director of IDA Funds and Advocacy. In this capacity, Keisha oversees a portfolio of IDA’s granting, artist support, and field-building programs, including IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund, Logan Elevate Grants, Nonfiction Access Initiative, and the Pare…
Sarah Feinbloom is an award-winning director, producer and editor whose work includes educational documentaries, dramatic narratives and fundraising videos. She is also the founder and executive director of GOOD DOCS – an educational distribution company specializing in human rights and…
Jennifer Tiexiera is an award winning documentary director, producer and editor and one of the co-founders of Lady & Bird, a female-run documentary production company focused on telling stories from underrepresented voices. Most recently, she directed the three-part series, Unveiled:…
Elise Pearlstein runs all creative development for This Machine Filmworks, a filmmaker-driven company that explores the times in which we live through non-fiction storytelling in all media. Before joining This Machine, Elise was SVP, Documentary Film, at Participant where, beginning…
Alysa Nahmias is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and founder of the Los Angeles-based production company AJNA. Her directing credits include Art & Krimes by Krimes (2021), The New Bauhaus (2019), and Unfinished Spaces (2011). As a producer, her films include…
Kim Yutani is the Director of Programming of the Sundance Film Festival; she assumed that role in 2018. She began programming short films for the Festival in 2006, and became a feature film programmer in 2009, focusing on US and…