Rachel Dretzin is a co-founder of Ark Media and a principal producer, director, and writer with the company. Together with Ark Media producer/ director Phil Bertelsen, she directed the six-part Netflix original series "Who Killed Malcolm X" which will debut on Netflix in January 2020. 

Jim LeBrecht is the founder of Berkeley Sound Artists (BSA), an audio postproduction house. Films that he has mixed have screened at film festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, Telluride and Berlin. Credits include Unrest, The Force, Audrie and Daisy, The Waiting Room, The Devil and Daniel Johnston and We Were Here. LeBrecht started his career in the theater as the resident sound designer at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre for 10 years. He’s also designed sound for the American Conservatory Theatre, The Public Theater in NY, La Jolla Playhouse and the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. Jim co-authored (with Deena Kaye) the book Sound and Music for the Theatre: the art and technique of design. Now in it’s 4th edition, the book is used all over the world as a textbook. Jim’s work as a disabled rights advocate began in his teens as a member of Disabled in Action, a pioneering disability rights group. While at UC, San Diego, he helped found the Disabled Students Union. Jim is currently a board member at the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, a leading organization working for the rights of the disabled through education, legislation and litigation.

Nicole Newnham is a documentary producer and director, Sundance Film Festival alumnus and four time Emmy-nominee. She recently produced the breakthrough virtual reality experience, Collisions, directed by artist Lynette Wallworth. Among her films are The Revolutionary Optimists, winner of the Sundance Hilton Sustainability Award, and Sentenced Home. Both films aired on PBS’ series Independent Lens. Nicole instigated, co-produced and directed the acclaimed documentary The Rape of Europa, about the Nazi war on European culture, which was nominated for a WGA award and shortlisted for the Academy Award. She is known for working to achieve concrete impact from the power of the stories she tells, and co-founded a story and data-mapping platform for youth - linked to The Revolutionary Optimists, own communities, called Map Your World (www.mapyourworld.org).

Alexander is a German-Romanian filmmaker born in Romania who studied directing at The Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). His  documentary film, The World According To Ion B was awarded an International Emmy Award in 2010. His feature documentary  film Toto And His Sisters was a European  Academy Award nominee 2015.  The film had a wide international distribution and played  successfully  in festivals worldwide. Alexander served as Director of Photography for the French/German documentary Nothingwood (Sonia  Kronlund) that was shot in Afghanistan and premiered in Cannes as part of La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in 2017. His latest feature length documentary Collective premiered at the Venice IFF 2019 - as part of the Official Selection - Out of Competition and is a co-production with Samsa Film (Luxembourg) and HBO Europe.

Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Hilla Medalia has received three Emmy® nominations. Her projects have garnered critical acclaim and screened internationally in theaters and on television including HBO, MTV, BBC and ARTE. Among her range of titles include To Die in Jerusalem 2007 (HBO), After the Storm 2009 (MTV), Numbered 2012 (ARTE), Dancing in Jaffa 2013 (Tribeca, IFC Sundance selects), Web Junkie 2014 (Sundance Film Festival, POV (PBS), BBC) The Go Go Boys 2014 (Cannes Film Festival), Censored Voices 2015, (Sundance Film Festival and Berlinale), Muhi – Generally Temporary 2017 (San Francisco Film Festival, HotDocs, AFI, Docaviv). Medalia holds a Master of Arts from Southern Illinois University.

Shosh Shlam, an award winning director and producer, whose critically acclaimed documentaries have been screened internationally in theaters and on television including BBC, ARTE, ZDF, PBS. Her work combines sensitive intimate observation of human nature with a deep research and social criticism. Shosh's films include Last Journey Into Silence 2003 (Krakow Film Festival), Be Fruitful And Multiply 2007 (ZDf), Good Garbage 2010 (Shanghai Film Festival), Web Junkie 2014 (Sundance Film Festival, CPH, POV (PBS), BBC), Leftover Women 2019 ( Tribeca Film Festival, Hot Docs, Independent Lens (PBS).
Shosh graduated from the theatre department in Tel Aviv University, studied in the School of Visual Arts in New York and holds a Master of Comparative Literature from Bar Ilan University.

Haifaa Al Mansour finished her bachelor’s degree in Literature at the American University in Cairo and completed a Master’s degree in Directing and Film Studies from the University of Sydney. She is considered the first female filmmaker in Saudi Arabia and her feature film Wadjda (2012) was the first international film ever to be shot inside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Invited to over 40 festivals worldwide, Wadjda garnered numerous awards - among others in Venice, Rotterdam, and Dubai.

Barak Goodman and Chris Durrance have directed several films together, including Clinton for PBS’s American Experience, and the six-part series Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies. Separately and together, they have won numerous Peabody, Emmy®, and Writers Guild Awards, and an Academy Award® nomination.

Teddy Kunhardt is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and producer/director of True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight For Equality. Previously, Kunhardt directed and produced the IDA Award winning John McCain: For Whom The Bell Tolls (HBO, 2018). Other films include King In The Wilderness, The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee, 2017 PGA nomination, Becoming Warren Buffett; Jim: The James Foley Story and Living With Lincoln. Teddy is a graduate of Skidmore College and the Institute of Culinary Education. He lives in Chappaqua, New York with his wife, Sarah and son Henry.

George Kunhardt is an Emmy Award winning film director and producer at Kunhardt Films. His recent films include True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight For Equality (HBO, 2019); John McCain: For Whom The Bell Tolls (HBO, 2018, IDA Award Winner); King in the Wilderness (HBO, 2018, NAACP Image Award Nominated); The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee (HBO, 2017, PGA Award Nominated); Becoming Warren Buffett (HBO, 2017); Jim: The James Foley Story (HBO, 2016, Emmy Award Winner) and Living With Lincoln (HBO, 2015). Kunhardt graduated from Wheaton College as the college’s first film major. He lives in Bedford, New York with his wife Jackie and son, George, Jr.