Nanfu Wang is an award-winning Chinese filmmaker based in the U.S. She is a recipient of the 2020 MacArthur Genius Grant. Her feature documentaries include Hooligan Sparrow (Sundance 2016), I Am Another You (SXSW 2017, Special Jury Prize winner), One Child Nation (Sundance 2019, Grand Jury Prize Winner), and In the Same Breath (Sundance 2021).
Elaine McMillion Sheldon is an Academy Award-nominated and Peabody-winning documentary filmmaker. She has been nominated for six Emmy awards, is a 2021 Creative Capital Awardee, a 2021 Livingston Award Finalist, and a 2020 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. She’s currently in-production on a feature-length documentary “King Coal,” which has received support and funding from the Sundance […]
Anjali’s currently directing a Netflix Original with Tremolo Productions. In 2019, Anjali was named one of the top 40 filmmakers under 40 by DOCNYC and a director on the rise by Free The Work. Her work includes stories about warriors-turned runners, environmental activists, Afro-electric pop groups that want to go to Space and cross-continent escapes. Anjali’s films have been supported by Cinereach, Sundance, and Tribeca, have screened at […]
Ruchi Mital is an Emmy-winning filmmaker based in Brooklyn. Her films include We Could Be King; Sky Ladder: The Art Of Cai Guo-Qiang and This is Personal, both of which premiered at Sundance; The Case Against Adnan Syed for HBO; and The Me You Can’t See for Apple TV+. She is currently producing a hybrid documentary/fiction feature, This World is Not My […]
Aid-worker-turned-filmmaker, and DOC NYC/HBO 40-Under-40. Born in Korea, Catherine was fortunate to receive scholarships and dedicated her studies at Yale and Harvard – and ensuing decade’s profession across 18 countries – to global humanitarian work. Witnessing storytelling power, she left the UN to direct film. 9at38, her debut, premiered at Tribeca and features on The […]
Alexandra Lazarowich is an award-winning Cree filmmaker from northern Alberta. Her short film Fast Horse was honoured with The Special Jury Prize for Directing at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Her body of work as director and producer include LAKE, Indian Rights for Indian Women, Cree Code Talker Empty Metal and INAATE/SE/. She is the series producer […]
Smriti Keshari is an Indian-American award-winning film director and writer, her work explores under-represented perspectives and stories. She has a roster of highly notable projects. Keshari is known for her acclaimed multi-media installation, the bomb, which was heralded by Newsweek as “a stunning avant-garde approach to a plea for nuclear disarmament.” She is an artist-in-residence with the […]
Sonia Kennebeck is an award-winning director and producer and has released three critically-acclaimed independent feature films: NATIONAL BIRD (Berlinale Special 2016), ENEMIES OF THE STATE (TIFF 2020), and UNITED STATES VS. REALITY WINNER (SXSW 2021). Her work has been widely distributed through IFC Films, PBS, Netflix, and Hulu. She is a self-trained filmmaker, first-generation college […]
Yuqi Kang was born in Inner Mongolia, China. She studied filmmaking in the Social Documentary Film Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Upon graduation, she was awarded the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for Exceptional Achievement in Social Documentary Film. Her feature debut (A Little Wisdom*) premiered at Busan International Film Festival […]
One of Doc NYC’s 40 under 40, Patricia is currently producing and directing a TBA documentary feature for MTV Docs. She created and directed THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, a five part true crime series for Viceland, co-ep’d Blumhouse’s FALL RIVER (Co-Ep), and produced Jen Brea’s Emmy Nominated, Oscar-Shorlisted UNREST (Producer). She loves verité, underdogs, and the Fujinon […]