Zach is a Los Angeles based director and the co-founder of Optimist. His recent films include The Undocumented Lawyer (Tribeca 2020, HBO) and Five Years North (Grand Jury award DOCNYC 2020, Finalist duPont-Columbia Awards, PBS). Zach just completed a feature documentary with XTR called This Is Not Financial Advice—a character driven exploration of the psychology […]
Willow O’Feral is an award-winning filmmaker and co-founder of Haptic Pictures. Her documentary Sisters Rising premiered at Big Sky and broadcast on America ReFramed PBS. Her first documentary Break The Silence: Reproductive & Sexual Health Storieswas collaboratively created using a reproductive justice praxis. Willow lives in Vermont and is a proud member of New Day […]
Tyshun Wardlaw is a director and producer. Her feature documentary, Growing Up Milwaukee, is streaming exclusively on HBO Max and premiered at the American Black Film Festival in 2020. She is currently directing and producing a sports docuseries about an NBA team. She’s the owner of Wardlaw Productions, a Midwest-based production company in Chicago and Milwaukee.
This Machine’s EVP Trevor Smith’s producing credits include Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry (AppleTV+), BELUSHI (Showtime), The World According to Dick Cheney (Showtime), “Supreme Models” (YouTube Black Voices Fund) and “Dear…” (AppleTV+). Upcoming projects include, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Disney+), Unt. Martha Stewart Documentary (Netflix), The Devil You Know (HBO), “Murf the Surf” (EPIX) and “Big Vape” (Netflix).
Tony Hale is an Emmy-winning documentary editor. His first feature, A Will for the Woods, won two awards at Full Frame and aired nationally on PBS. Recently, Tony won an Emmy for The Story of Plastic (Discovery) and a Jackson Wild award for YOUTH v GOV (Netflix). Short work includes pieces for NYT Op-Docs, The […]
Tasha Van Zandt is an award-winning director, cinematographer, and Emmy-nominated producer who has documented stories across all seven continents. Her debut feature-length documentary After Antarctica has screened at festivals around the world and won numerous awards. Her short documentaries include One Thousand Stories and Tehachapi about renowned artist JR. Tasha is a Sundance Institute Fellow, […]
Sunita Prasad is a New York City-based filmmaker and video artist. Films she has edited have won major festival awards, been nominated for multiple Emmys, and met audiences at Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca and DOC NYC. Her video art has been exhibited at venues from the Palais de Tokyo in Paris to Centre Clark in Montreal.
Stephen Bailey is a Jamaican-American director and cinematographer exploring the strength of the human spirit and stories that form our identities. Most recently, he directed on the Peacock series Shadowland. His work as a director of photography includes HBO feature documentary Legend of the Underground, Netflix hybrid series The G Word, and HBOSport Emmy-nominated series […]
Serginho Roosblad is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist and photographer, who is part of the Associated Press’ Global Investigations team. He’s a producer of Exposing Muybridge, a film about motion-picture pioneer Eadweard Muybridge, which premiered at DOC NYC 2021. Serginho is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area but hails from Amsterdam, with […]
Robert A. Martinez is a Mexican-American documentary editor whose work includes the Emmy-nominated Lucy and Desi (Sundance 2022, Amazon) and the ACE Eddie and Emmy-nominated The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart (HBO). A graduate of California State Northridge, Robert grew up in Rialto, CA and currently resides in Inglewood, CA.