Adam Pertofsky

Since 1996, Adam has been an editor at Rock Paper Scissors in Los Angeles. He has earned multiple commercial editing awards, including a Gold Clio for Paul Hunter’s Nike...

Alan Dater

Alan Dater graduated from Goddard College in 1965 with a B.A. in Philosophy. He began his film career in New York City shortly thereafter working on documentaries as a...

Amy Gebhardt

After graduating from a Bachelor of Laws and Arts majoring in Film in 1998, Amy Gebhardt has become an award winning writer/director/cinematographer in both drama and...

Angela Tucker

Angela Tucker has worked at Big Mouth Films for the past seven years and is currently the Director of Production. She is producing the films, "Rose and Nangabire" and "...

Ann Kaneko

Ann Kaneko is an award-winning filmmaker and artist committed to exploring the diverse experiences of people outside the radar of the mainstream. Fluent in English, Japanese...

Annie Goldson

Annie Goldson has been producing and directing award-winning documentaries, docudramas and experimental film/video for 20 years in the United States and New Zealand. Her...

Ashley Sabin

Ashley Sabin studied Art History in Brooklyn, NY at Pratt Institute. She is now making documentary films with partner David Redmon under their production company Carnivalesque...

Astrid Bussink

After studies at the Academy of Fine arts in Enschede, the Netherlands, Astrid Bussink was caught in the middle of the fireworks explosive disaster which fell upon the...

Bann Roy

It was the late 1980’s - a time when India was opening up its economy to giant multinational companies. By then, Bann Roy, born in Calcutta, was well on his way to a successful...

Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt

Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt (Director/Producer) holds a BA with honors in Screenwriting from Brown University and an MFA with honors from Columbia University (2007). He served...

Brandon Klein

Born December 1st 1978 in St. Paul Minnesota, Brandon Klein grew up in England and studied Film and Economics at Middlebury College in Vermont. An entrepreneur from an...

Catherine Madigan

Catherine’s background in production has led to extensive roles as Co-producer and Production Manager for some of New Zealand’s leading documentary makers and includes...

Christopher Tuckfield

Christopher is an award winning Australian filmmaker making performative or hybrid documentary films, using many of the techniques of drama to create an engaged and reflective...

Cynthia Wade

Cynthia Wade is a NYC-based documentary filmmaker. Her short documentary FREEHELD won the Academy Award Best Documentary Short Subject 2008, a Special Jury Prize at the...

Dan Salmon

Having most recently won the Grand Prix du Jury and Prix du Public at the Festival International do Film Documentaire Oceanien. His credits include high-end television...

Daniel Klein

Born August 25th 1982 in St. Paul Minnesota, Daniel Klein grew up in England and majored in Political Movements at NYU. An activist from an early age, Daniel has been...

Daniella Ortega

Daniella is an independent producer and director of documentary and drama. A graduate of the Australian Film Television and Radio School, her film Bound was awarded the...

David Bradbury

David Bradbury has earned an international reputation as a film maker willing to go to extraordinary lengths for a cause, exposing political oppression and environmental...

David Redmon

David Redmon grew up in rural Mansfield, Texas and studied visual sociology at the State University of New York. Mardi Gras: Made in China, Redmon’s Sundance nominated...

David Teague

David produced and directed the documentary “Intifada NYC” which premiered in competition at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. He has also directed the silent feature...

Echo Di Zhu

Echo’s has directed several short films: SOMETHING ABOUT VINCENT (2004), SHORT CUT (2005), SMASH NEW ZEALAND (2005), OLGA (2005) and HOME (2006). HOME is a driven coming...

George Andrews

George Andrews is one of New Zealand's most respected producers with a career in film and television in both New Zealand and the United Kingdom which spans more than thirty...

Henriette Mantel

Henriette Mantel is a writer, actress and stand-up comic. She has extensive experience in documentary and reality television as a writer/producer on such shows as the...

Ilana Trachtman

Ilana Trachtman is an award-winning documentary and children's television producer. She has produced and directed programs in both English and Spanish for PBS, HBO FAMILY...

James Frankham

In the last four years James Frankham has visited 25 countries on five continents, writing filming and photographing the world’s diversity, largely as Media Specialist...

James Leong

James Leong was born in Hong Kong and educated in the UK. He began working in production in Japan as a Promos Producer, but has been an independent director, cameraman...

Jane Jeffes

Jane Jeffes started her career in London’s Fleet Street, before moving to Central Independent Television and then into radio. As Head of Programmes for Unique Broadcasting...

Jeff Adachi

Jeff Adachi is the writer, director and producer of "The Slanted Screen". He has been a longtime advocate for Asian American artists and arts organizations. Between 1995...

Jeff Hockett

Jeff graduated from the University of West Florida with a degree in Communication Arts and began his career as a news photographer and editor at WBBH in Ft. Myers, Florida...

Jenny Abel

Jenny initially began a career in music, having studied the viola since the age of 8 and receiving a scholarship to attend music school. But she decided to take a completely...

Joe Cultrera

Cultrera directed and edited WITCH CITY, a critical look at the Disneyfication of history. The film premiered on WGBH in Boston and was subsequently aired on many other...

Kim Beamish

Kim Beamish graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2001 completing a Graduate Diploma, Film & Television (Documentary). He has been working as a filmmaker...

Kirsty MacDonald

Kirsty MacDonald is an Auckland University Film Studies post-graduate student, who has directed several award-winning documentaries. Kirsty has a background in music and...

Kristen Thompson

Kristen Thompson is a first-time director with a background in cultural anthropology and linguistics. She is the recipient of the Isabel Katana award for social justice...

Leonard Retel Helmrich

Leonard Retel Helmrich has made numerous award winning documentaries. He was born in 1959 in Tilburg, the Netherlands. In 1986 he finished his studies at the Dutch Film...

Lindsey Davidson

Lindsey grew up in Hokianga, in the Far North of New Zealand. It is here that she developed a passion for the outdoors and the animals and plants of this country. Before...

Lisa Merton

Lisa Merton started out her career as a weaver. She studied textile design and weaving in Scandinavia and, after returning to the U.S., worked professionally as a weaver...

Louis Abelman

Louis Abelman is a writer focused on creative nonfiction. Apart from serving as assistant director for a UNICEF project in the Congo, this is his first film. After attending...

Lucie Tremblay

Lowik Media’s mission is to develop and produce documentary films, documentary series, short and feature length films, destined for theatrical as well as for television...

Lynn Lee

Lynn Lee started her career at an international news network where she worked her way up from News Assistant to Senior Producer. In 2000, she was recruited by the United...

Lynn True

Lynn True graduated from Brown University with a joint degree in Urban Studies and Architecture. She was an assistant editor for PBS, AMC and NBC News Productions before...

Margaret Hyde

Filmmaker, photographer and author Margaret Hyde was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. Hailing from a philanthropic legacy, Margaret’s family founded the Hyde Family...

Maria Finitzo

Maria Finitzo has been an award winning filmmaker for 20 years. She has directed and produced projects for network television, public broadcasting and the cable market...

Marshall Thompson

As a journalist, Marshall Thompson has reported from Iraq, Kosovo, Korea and Israel. He has a bachelor’s in journalism and a master’s in mass communications from Ohio...

Maryse Chartrand

Maryse Chartrand, bachelor in arts and communications at Concordia University, has more than 20 years of experience in advertising as a creative writer (1983 to 2003)....

Melissa Salpietra

Melissa has a BSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Cincinnati. She has spent the past 5 years working with top scientists in the field of animal communication...

Memuzin River

Mem has worked as an independent filmmaker and composer for many years. He has an interest in social justice issues and the plight of the homeless both in Australia and...

Michael McMahon

Michael McMahon has produced several award winning documentaries and short dramas including the AFI award winning "Sadness" (1999), the AFI award winning "Thomson Of Arnhem...

Miles Roston

Miles Roston has filmed around the world from Vietnam to Australia to Sierra Leone. His 2003 film, 14 Million Dreams, about five orphans of AIDS in Kenya and Malawi...

Natasha Gadd

Natasha Gadd is a Melbourne based independent documentary filmmaker, writer and curator. Prior to moving into film production, Natasha was Cinema Programmer at the Australian...

Nelson Walker III

Nelson Walker III holds a BA in American Civilization from Brown University. He began his career as a writer, penning documentaries for Discovery Channel, History Channel...

Nicholas Klein

Born March 12th 1980 in St. Paul Minnesota, Nicholas Klein grew up in England and studied Philosophy, Religion and Ethics at the University of London. Nicholas was a child...

Noam Shalev

Noam Shalev is a leading Israeli film-maker with production company Highlight Films. A Masters graduate from the City University...

Oren Jacoby

OREN JACOBY is an Oscar® nominated filmmaker who has written,directed, and produced award-winning films for more than two decades. He has made documentaries for the BBC...

Paul Nadler

Paul Nadler, the subject of Braindamadj’d…Take II, was a firebrand artist in the world of television, before suffering severe brain damage in a near-fatal car accident...

Regina Park

Regina Park is a second-generation Korean-American. After graduating from Columbia University in New York City with a joint degree in English and film studies, Regina...

Rhys Graham

Rhys Graham is a Melbourne based independent filmmaker and writer. His most recent films include the feature documentary "Words from the City" (co-director) which premieres...

Ruby Yang

Ruby Yang is a noted Chinese-American filmmaker whose work in documentary and dramatic film has earned her an Academy Award and numerous international awards. She lives...

Sandy Crichton

Sandy is an award winning filmmaker with a wide range of interests in factual programming including natural history, social and observational documentary. A graduate of...

Shannon Owen

Shannon Owen is a Melbourne based director and producer. She received a postgraduate diploma in documentary from the Victorian College of Arts in 2000. Shannon has gone...

Shirley Horrocks

Shirley Horrocks is one of New Zealand’s leading documentary filmmakers. In her 21 years of running her own production company, Point of View Productions, she has specialised...

Sophie Zhang

Sophie Zhang completed her Masters Degree in Documentary Direction at the University of Auckland in 2005. She also holds a Bachelor of Science from Tianjin Normal University...

Steve Skrovan

Steve Skrovan has worked as a stand-up comedian and TV comedy writer for twenty-five years. He has written for many shows, most notably, "Seinfeld" and for the past nine...

Thomas Lennon

Lennon’s work in documentary film has won the field’s most coveted honors: two Academy Award nominations, a duPont-Columbia award, two George Foster Peabody and Writers...

Tim Klein

Born August 14th 1983 in Minneapolis Minnesota, Tim Klein grew up in the Twin Cities and studied Film, Communications and African History at the University of Minnesota...

Tony Ayres

Tony Ayres is an award winning writer, director and producer of both long and short form drama and documentary. His 2007 feature film "The Home Song Stories", which he...

Yaniv Berman

- "Even Kids Started Small" (2006) – Official selection of the CINÉFONDATION, Cannes Film Festival 2006. Won first place at Wakacyjne Kadry Film Festival (Poland) and...