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…
Rahdi Taylor is Executive Vice President at Concordia Studio where she leads The Concordia Fellowship, which aims to engineer catalytic change in individuals and the film industry by supporting BIPOC + other diverse documentary filmmakers from the US who demonstrate…
Stephen D. Smith is Executive Chairman and co-founder of StoryFile, the world’s first AI Conversational Video platform that powers conversations. Stephen is an international speaker, documentary film producer, and oral historian who specializes in immersive media. His groundbreaking work with…
Josh Siegel, Curator in MoMA’s Department of Film, has organized more than 150 film, media, and gallery exhibitions, many of which have appeared on Best of the Year lists in the New York Times, Artforum, Film Comment, Cahiers du cinéma,…