Ted Smith is founder and former Executive Director of Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, a grassroots environmental coalition formed in 1982 in response to environmental pollution caused by electronics manufacturing in […]

Bess Tassoulas is the Strategy Associate for The Nature Conservancy’s Climate Risk & Resilience strategy. She brings to TNC a filmmaking background and a desire to tell important stories of […]

Sophie Robinson is a former grassroots climate organizer who has changed paths to pursue filmmaking for social change. She coordinated 350 Massachusetts – one of the leading statewide climate networks […]

Jared P. Scott is an Emmy®-nominated writer/director and New York Times® Bestseller. Feature films include The Great Green Wall (Venice) with EP Fernando Meirelles (Academy Award®-nominated director of City of […]

Hilary Klotz Steinman is an Emmy award winning independent documentary filmmaker, and has been producing verite, investigative and historical documentary films for over 20 years. Hilary is currently producing Children […]

Sue Williams has produced and directed five critically acclaimed, feature documentaries about China for national PBS broadcast, including Frontline. Contemporary China features prominently in her most recent film, Death by […]

Natalie Prosin served as the Executive Director of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) from 2011-2015 having already spent two years conducting legal research for the organization while in law school. […]

Monica Miller is an Attorney and Legal Working Group Leader of the Nonhuman Rights Project. She also serves as Senior Counsel at the American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center. […]

D A (Donn Alan) Pennebaker is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of cinéma vérité filmmaking. In the early sixties, Pennebaker and his colleague Richard Leacock developed one of […]

Chris Hegedus has been working as a director, cinematographer and editor for 40 years. In 2001 she received the prestigious DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement for Startup.com. With her long-time […]