Grace Zahrah is an emerging documentary editor whose work focuses on stories about misunderstood subjects and characters. Most recently, she edited Retrograde, which premiered at Telluride Film Festival 2022, and Sirens, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2022 and was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Documentary Feature at Outfest. Zahrah is also a […]
Giselle Bailey is a director of Jamaican descent whose work blends documentary, narrative and contemporary art to create content that is explosively visual and metaphorical. Giselle is a 2022 Concordia Fellow currently directing HBO docuseries Seen & Heard. Her directorial portfolio includes interstitials for Hulu docuseries Hair Tales (2022) and HBO documentary feature The Legend […]
Emmett Adler is an award-winning documentary editor. In 2022, he made his directorial debut with End of the Line, a feature documentary that premiered at DOC NYC and is available on Apple TV, Amazon Prime and more. Additionally, Emmett leads the Chicago chapter of the Video Consortium, a global nonprofit that supports nonfiction filmmakers.
Emma D. Miller produced Iliana Sosa’s SXSW award-winning What We Leave Behind (ARRAY Releasing / Netflix). She’s currently producing Elizabeth Lo’s Untitled Mistress Dispeller Project. Past work includes Sundance winner Unrest (Independent Lens / Netflix), Oscar-nominated Knife Skills (The New Yorker), and Showtime’s Couples Therapy. She was previously development executive at Concordia Studio and programming […]
Elizabeth Unger is a National Geographic Explorer and filmmaker whose passion for environmental issues has led her across seven continents. Elizabeth was selected as one of five North American Regional Finalists for the prestigious UN Young Champion of the Earth Prize and is a 2019 Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Grantee.
Edward Buckles’ nonlinear path to filmmaking has birthed a brand of visual storytelling: an aesthetically beautiful marriage between fine art and guerilla style documentation. His debut documentary, Katrina Babies, is currently on HBO Max and has recently won two awards at Tribeca Festival, including its inaugural Human/Nature Award and The Albert Maysles Award for Best […]
Midwest-born and raised, David is a first-generation Cambodian-Mexican-American filmmaker. Prior to directing his SXSW award-winning feature debut, Bad Axe, David attended the University of Michigan film school. He spent his early career embracing the versatility of guerilla filmmaking, working on various projects under director Jeff Tremaine. David now lives in New York City and is focused […]
David Alvarado is a documentary director focusing on science, technology and human rights. He co-founded Structure Films, where he directed feature films including The Immortalists (2014), Bill Nye: Science Guy (2017), Blood Sugar Rising (2020) and We Are As Gods (2022), among other shorts and series. His new project is about a legendary Chicano playwright […]
Daniel Chávez-Ontiveros is an award-winning Mexican filmmaker living in the California Bay Area. He edited 499 and Sansón And Me, directed by Rodrigo Reyes. These films have won awards in Tribeca, HotDocs and Sheffield Doc Fest. He is a fellow of the 2022 Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship. He is currently editing the film Unseen, […]
Daniel Garber is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker with work spanning documentary, fiction and experimental practices. Primarily an editor, his work includes Some Kind of Heaven, The Reagan Show and How to Blow Up a Pipeline. He was one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces and a Cinema Eye Honors nominee. He is currently working on Lance […]