Andy Sarjahani is an Iranian-American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer raised in the Ozarks of Arkansas. He is interested in people, our relationship to place and how that shapes our worldview. He has a Masters of Science in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems from Montana State University and left his career in academia in 2012 to […]
Ludwig Hurtado is a multimedia journalist, writer and filmmaker from Los Angeles, currently living in New York. He’s produced episodes of NBC’s Dateline and directed multiple award-winning digital documentary shorts for NBC News. His reporting has been featured in the The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Nation, Rolling Stone, Vice, and other publications. […]
Loulwa Khoury is a New York-based film editor and filmmaker who was born and raised in Beirut. She most recently edited her first award-nominated feature documentary Paradise Without People (2019). Her other work includes award-winning documentaries City of Ghosts (2017) and It Will Be Chaos (2018), White Sauce Hot Sauce (2018), The Joneses (2016) and […]
Khaula Malik is an award-winning filmmaker and artist based between Detroit and New York City. Most recently, Khaula was selected for the 2020 Tribeca CHANEL Through Her Lens program and the Cine Qua Non Revisions Lab. Her short film How The Air Feels premiered at AFI Docs, won the National Board of Review Student Award, […]
Joyce Mishaan is a director and Executive Producer of mostly unscripted content for major TV networks, including TLC, Discovery+, Food Network and more. She’s the Executive Producer of two new Food Network series – Ciao House and Me or the Menu – and a video producer for the 2022 MAKERS conference. She is the producer and […]
Jessamyn Ansary is a writer/producer for major networks and streaming services, including: Hulu, HBO, National Geographic, Travel Channel, Food Network, and many others. She was part of the producing team on the Emmy-nominated 2014 documentary Escape Fire, and the 2012 HBO documentary, Americans in Bed. She’s currently a script writer for the long-running Oxygen true […]
Xinyan Yu is a journalist and filmmaker based in Washington, DC. She has been producing, filming and editing news features and short documentaries at international media outlets for nearly a decade. Her 23-min BBC documentary China’s Science Revolution won the 2015 BBC Storytelling Fund and was Highly Commended for Excellent Online Production at the 2016 […]
Nada Bedair is an award-winning Egyptian filmmaker and a 2nd Year graduate film student at New York University – Tisch School of the Arts. Her work was featured in various film festivals and museums including Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, New York International Children’s film Festival and Institut du Monde Arabe in France. She is […]
Michelle Leung is a video journalist and producer. She spent the first five years of her career producing short form documentaries at Vice, where she focused on issues like gender, immigration and racial equality. She is currently producing and directing for the Emmy award-winning show Axios on HBO.
A.K. Sandhu employs documentary filmmaking and photography to revive absent narratives that have been buried or suppressed. Her work crosses into experimental docu-hybrid modes of storytelling, probing themes such as race, class, spirituality, and cross-cultural solidarity. Inspired by her father’s family photographs, A.K. exited a career in finance to pursue her love for visual storytelling. […]