F. Joseph Dresen is a senior program associate at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute, where he is responsible for development issues, editing the Institute’s Kennan Cable series, and managing […]

Dominic “Shodekeh” Talifero is a groundbreaking Beatboxer, Vocal Percussionist and Breath Artist who pushes the boundaries of the human voice within and outside the context of Hip Hop music and […]

Clara Haizlett is a documentary filmmaker from West Virginia and an associate producer on King Coal. Clara has directed, shot and produced several short documentaries for outlets like the Smithsonian […]

Ashley Luke, an emerging filmmaker, has focused on documenting coastal communities since moving to the east coast. Her work has been featured with Smithsonian Institution, Nature Conservancy, the National Park […]

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 […]