Cora Atkinson is an award-winning producer and filmmaker. She recently co-produced the Oscar winning film Summer of Soul. She is also the Supervising Producer at Words + Pictures overseeing and producing documentaries. Her recent credits include Carol and Johnny (Tribeca), Jeanette Lee Vs. (ESPN) and American Son (ESPN). Cora has also produced shorts, features, and […]
Chris is the co-founder of Optimist and director of the documentaries Living on One Dollar (Netflix 2015) and Salam Neighbor (Netflix 2016). His last feature Five Years North (PBS 2021), won the Grand Jury award at DOC NYC and was a finalist for the duPont-Columbia awards. Chris recently completed a feature documentary with XTR called […]
Cassidy Hartmann is an Emmy-winning documentary producer and writer, and a partner at White Horse Pictures in Los Angeles. She produced and co-wrote the Oscar-shortlisted, Emmy-winning documentary The Apollo (Tribeca, HBO), directed by Roger Ross Williams. She’s currently producing and co-writing a documentary about the ventriloquist Shari Lewis and her puppet, Lamb Chop, directed by Lisa […]
Brian Becker is a filmmaker and producer who makes archival documentaries that highlight forgotten narratives of American culture. He is currently directing his first feature on Y2K for HBO and most recently served as archival producer on Free Chol Soo Lee and MLK/FBI. He received the 2021 Points North Fellowship and is an Impact Partners […]
Bao is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker based in Los Angeles and Saigon. His first film, Live from New York!, opened the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. In 2020, his next film, Be Water, premiered in competition at Sundance and was invited to SXSW, Cannes, Telluride, and Hot Docs. He earned his BA at NYU and his MFA […]
Avantika Nimbalker is a production sound mixer and sound designer working in documentaries and fiction films. Her credits include Webby-award winner Chasing Cosby, First Move (DOC NYC) and Fierce, Funny & Fly. Avantika was the lead production sound mixer for feature narrative Allswell (Tribeca) and A Period Piece (SXSW). Born and raised in India, she […]
Ashley is a Brooklyn-based documentary film editor. After working in production at the start of her career, she began pursuing post-production in 2017. She’s assistant edited features including This is Paris and Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack and recently landed her first feature editor role on the HBO documentary Endangered (Tribeca 2022).
Anthony Banua-Simon is an award-winning filmmaker and editor based in New York City. His debut feature, Cane Fire, was a selection of the 2020 Hot Docs International Film Festival as well as the 2021 MoMA Doc Fortnight and is being distributed by Cinema Guild. He’s featured in The New York Times, Jacobin, BOMB and Filmmaker.
Alex Takats is a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer based in New York City. He worked with Academy Award-nominated documentary company Loki Films for 10 years, most recently as a producer and cinematographer. His work includes One Of Us (Netflix), Love Fraud (Showtime) and Endangered (HBO) and has been shown at film festivals such as the […]