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 […]

David Ehrenberg is an American filmmaker best known for his work with the National Park Service. David started his career as an apprentice at National Geographic Magazine and then joined […]

Documentary filmmaker with a decade of experience developing short films on social and environmental issues (UN, WWF, WCS, among others). A Fulbright scholar, she obtained an MFM in Documentary Filmmaking […]

Co-Founder and President of Wildlife Rescue. One of the featured subjects of the film All That Breathes.   2023 Program(s): All That Breathes  

Zoya Laktionova was born in Mariupol, in a working class family in 1984. Zoya first appeared in the world of documentary cinema as a character in the film “Ma”(10’) in […]

Illia Gladstein started his career in film as a short film programmer at Molodist IFF. In 2013, together with Nadia Parfan, he co-founded the International festival of film and urbanism […]

Elaine McMillion Sheldon is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy and Peabody-winning filmmaker. Sheldon is the director of two Netflix Original Documentaries – HEROIN(E) and RECOVERY BOYS- that explore America’s opioid […]