Robert Kolodny is a director and cinematographer based in New York. He was Director of Photography on Netflix’s Procession, which was shortlisted for the 94th Academy Awards and earned him an Emmy nomination. He’s contributed cinematography to films by Robert Greene, Laura Poitras, Alex Ross Perry, Cecilia Vicuña and the Safdie Brothers. He teaches film at […]
Rita Baghdadi is an award-winning documentary filmmaker known for the intimacy of her bold, character-driven films. Her latest feature, Sirens, premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Outfest. Rita’s work has been supported by Sundance, Tribeca, Netflix, HBO, Canon, Film Independent and the International Documentary Association. She […]
Paula Eiselt is an award-winning independent feature-film filmmaker, producer, and activist known for her journalistic rigor in telling timely and intelligent cinematic stories led by strong-willed characters. She is most notably known for her two award-winning documentary features, 2018’s 93Queen (POV/ITVS, HBO Max) and 2022’s Sundance Impact Award-winner, Aftershock (HULU, Disney+).
Oluwaseun Babalola is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and television producer. Recent work includes Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (HBO), which recounts the activist’s life through impactful oration. Oluwaseun is also the founder of KOSINIMA, Inc., a nonprofit with initiatives such as: “ṢOJU,” a platform that celebrates African youth culture via documentary film/photography, and “KOSINIMA Short Film […]
Nicole Docta is an award-winning filmmaker who’s focused her career on socially impactful projects producing Emmy Award-winning Belly of the Beast and duPont Award-winner Through the Night. She’s a Special Initiatives Producer at Firelight Media and is developing Adopting, a feature documentary illustrating the transnational, transracial adoption process through the lens that all adoptions start […]
Nick Canfield is a New York City-based director and cinematographer. He got his start working alongside legendary documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles, where he developed an intimate observational style. His camera-work can be seen in documentaries such as Iris, Born to Fly, In Transit and Making a Murderer. His first feature, The Reverend, won the DOC […]
Director/Producer of The Automat (Telluride 2021, DOC NYC 2021), Lisa self-distributed the film through her production turned distribution company A Slice of Pie Productions. It grossed $250k in U.S. box office, played 5 months in NYC, is nominated for 4 Critics Choice Awards, and is the most successful theatrically self-distributed US documentary since before Covid.
Laura is a creative documentary producer committed to telling stories that highlight urgent social justice issues. Currently producing the feature What We Carry, she recently produced the feature Mama Bears (SXSW 2022, Independent Lens 2023) and the short Black Beauty (Outfest 2022). Laura has been a fellow of WIF/Sundance Institute’s Financing Intensive (2020, 2022) and […]
Janah is a Nuyorican documentary director and editor from the Bronx, NY. Her editorial work has premiered at DOC NYC, Cannes, Berlinale, Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca and New York film festivals, among others. Her directorial debut, Melting Snow, premiered on the Criterion Collection in May 2022. She is currently working on her debut feature, We Believe!.
Igor Myakotin is an Emmy-nominated BAFTA-winning filmmaker who co-produced feature-length documentary Welcome to Chechnya. He is a 2022 Sundance Producing Fellow with a feature-length documentary, Queendom, set to release in 2023. Igor believes that cinema is not a way to escape reality but a way to embrace it with all its peculiarities and its darkness.