Hannah Silverman is a writer and filmmaker based in New York City. She is a recent graduate of NYU’s film & TV program, where The Shrinking Sky was her senior […]

Moscow-raised, Toronto-based Nika Belianina has been making fiction and documentary films since 2005. Her work has been screened at Oscar-qualifying, human rights and other international film festivals in North America, […]

Brazilian born, Cleveland raised, filmmaker Filipe DeAndrade has a passion for wildlife and freely admits he is addicted to adventure. Filipe graduated from the University of Florida and started a […]

Michael Gitlin makes work about some of the intricate conceptual and ideological systems out of which ways of knowing the world can be constructed. His films and videos have screened […]

Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk is a filmmaker from the small Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. At the age of 14, he was chosen to play the young Dalai Lama staring alongside Brad […]

It all started with motocross and a camera. Following a dream, Rusty Prevatt hit the road with a championship rider; documenting his adventures, struggles, triumphs and all that falls between. […]

Director Matthew Testa has been working in documentary film and television for two decades, often focusing on the environment, social justice issues and the interplay between people and nature. Prior […]

Dr. Rachel Smith is an observational astronomer investigating forming stars in the Galaxy. Through observations using some of the largest telescopes, Rachel explores how planets form and evolve, and the […]

Professor Jennifer (Jenn) Macalady is an Associate Professor and Geomicrobiologist in the Department of Geosciences at the Pennsylvania State University, where she studies microbial life in Precambrian-analog environments. She earned […]

Andrew Steele is staff scientist at Carnegie’s Geophysical Laboratory who specializes in astrobiology—the search for the origin and distribution of life in the universe. He focuses on developing protocols, instruments, […]