Born and raised in Lima, Peru, Claudia has been recognized as one of the ten prominent filmmakers in Peru. Claudia’s first feature film I Remember You, starring Stefanie Butler (Stranger Things) and Joe Egender (The Night of), won best dramatic feature film at the Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles and had a theatrical and VOD release in 2016. Her American Film Institute thesis film El Americano, won an Emmy Award in the drama category. Claudia is also the recipient of the Franklin J. Schaffner Fellow Award for directing El Americano. She is a 2018 Film Independent Fellow.

Since finishing the graduate writing program at the University of Southern California, Joe has written for a host of television, film, radio, and print projects. As an award-winning documentary film director, Joe has always been drawn to stories of unlikely heroes who defy the odds to make a difference in the world. His first feature documentary, #chicagoGirl: The Social Network Takes on a Dictator, has aired in more than 60 countries. He was an executive producer on the documentary film Finders Keepers, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, and he has also written studio feature films such as Disney’s Underdog. Joe’s most recent feature documentary, Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower ,follows 14-year-old Joshua Wong’s fight against the Chinese Communist Party. Joshua won the Audience Award at Sundance 2017 and was one of Netflix’s most high-profile acquisitions of the festival.

Maya is an Australian filmmaker with a focus on social impact documentary. She has directed award-winning short documentaries, Two (AFI Docs, Slamdance, Winner AIDC emerging talent) and Growing Up Gayby (ABC TV) and her feature documentary Gayby Baby (2015). Gayby Baby was selected for GoodPitch2 Australia 2014, premiered at Hot Docs, screened at London BFI, Doc Leipzig, Doc NYC, is on Netflix US and reached No. 1 on iTunes doc charts during it’s UK release. In Australia, the film famously caused a national stir when it was banned by the Australian State Government and is acknowledged as significant in the fight for Marriage Equality and Adoption Equality in Australia. In My Blood It Runs was selected for Good Pitch Australia 2016, the Sundance Documentary Fund and Sundance Skywalker Music and Sound Design Labs and is due for release in 2020.

Christina Antonakos-Wallace (Director) is an award winning filmmaker and cultural organizer whose practice is centered around facilitating conversations about migration, racism and belonging. Her short films and interactive work has been exhibited in over a dozen countries–in diverse contexts from schools, to festivals, to corporations. Awards include the Euromedia Award for Culture & Diversity (2011), a Media that Matters Change Maker Award (2012), and recognition from the German Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance (2015). From Here is her first feature-length documentary.

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.