2023 DCEFF Vantage Grant Finalist Aurora Brachman (Director/Producer) is a Queer mixed-race Black and South Asian woman and an award-winning documentary director and producer. Through patient and poetic storytelling her […]

Sara Newens is a Los Angeles-based documentary filmmaker and Emmy-award winning editor who began her career working for CBS News in New York City. She recently collaborated with Kirby Dick […]

Monique Walton is an independent producer of fiction films and documentaries. She produced Annie Silverstein’s debut feature Bull, which premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival – Un Certain Regard, […]

Bob Poole grew up in Kenya where his family spent much of their time with the abundant wildlife that thrived there during the 1960s and 1970s. Poole’s unique upbringing gave […]

Marissa Woods is a documentary filmmaker, arts researcher and motion designer specializing in non-fiction animation. Marissa is co-author of the Center for Media & Social Impact Report “The State of […]

Andrew W. Robinson graduated from the University of North Carolina’s School of the Arts with a bachelor’s degree in film. He also studied multimedia journalism at Virginia Commonwealth University, and […]

Hal Bernton is a freelance journalist. From 2000 to 2022, Hal was a staff reporter for The Seattle Times and previously worked in Alaska for more than a decade. He […]

Aryn Baker is TIME’s senior international climate and environment correspondent, covering the human impacts of climate change, along with other topics. She lives in Rome, and was previously TIME’s bureau […]

Lawrence Green is a creative director, filmmaker, photographer, and DJ. Lawrence has held video production, television programming, communication and marketing positions at various companies including the Service Employee International Union, […]

Mary Alice McMillan is a filmmaker, writer, and photographer. She received her MFA from American University’s Film and Media Arts program. As a North Carolina native, she is passionate about […]