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.

Peter Kunhardt recently directed and produced True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight For Equality. Kunhardt previously directed, John McCain: For Whom The Bell Tolls; King In The Wilderness; Becoming Warren Buffett and Living with Lincoln. He and two of his sons run Kunhardt Films, which has produced, among others, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross; Jim: The James Foley Story; Gloria: In Her Own Words; Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words; and Teddy: In His Own Words. Kunhardt has won 6 Emmys, a Peabody Award, an Alfred I. DuPont–Columbia University Award, and an NAACP Image Award. He is a founding board member of the Gordon Parks Foundation and the Kunhardt Film Foundation. He lives with his wife Suzy in Chappaqua.

In 2011 Eva Mulvad (born 1972) won the prestigious, Danish ”Roos Award” granted for her entire body of work. Mulvad graduated from the Danish Film School in 2001 and by 2006 she had her international breakthrough with Enemies of Happiness, which focused onthe female politician Malalai Joya’s political campaign ahead of the first democratic elections in Afghanistan 2005. The film won the Silver Wolf Award at IDFA and subsequently the World Cinema Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. With her intrinsic flair for drama and with many international awards in the baggage, Mulvad is one of the most prominent Danish filmmakers. Most recently she directed the film A Modern Man, The film is about the internationally renowned violinist Charlie Siem, who, other than playing divinely, also works as a model for mayor fashion agencies. It is a portrait of a man, who in principal, has it all, and it gives us a rare insight of a privileged life, where perfection is pursued in all aspects of life

Named by the New York Times as “America’s foremost visual chronicler of the plutocracy,” Emmy-award-winning filmmaker/photographer Lauren Greenfield has produced groundbreaking work on consumerism, youth culture and gender for the last 25 years.
Her documentaries Thin, The Queen of Versailles and Generation Wealth, and photography books Fast Forward, Girl Culture, Thin and Generation Wealth have been screened, published, and exhibited around the world where they have provoked international dialogue about some of the most important issues of our time. The Queen of Versailles won her the Best Documentary Director Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was named by Vogue as one of the top documentaries of all time. Her viral ad, #LikeAGirl, swept commercial awards, including 14 Cannes Lions (2015), was named 3rd Best Ad of the Decade, and earned Greenfield the #1 Director/ Most Awarded Director by AdAge, the first woman to top this list.

Rubaiyat Hossain is one of Bangladesh's handful of female filmmakers, known for her critically acclaimed debut feature film Meherjaan (2011) which faced political and cultural wrath in Bangladesh for its anti war narrative, and its critic of masculine nationalism from a feminine point of view. Her second feature film Under Construction (2015) premiered at New Directors Showcase at Seattle International Film festival and was theatrically released and well received in Bangladesh. Her third feature film Made in Bangladesh (2019), premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and distributed by Pyramide Films. Rubaiyat uses a feminist lens to deconstruct the otherwise phallocentric institution of cinema. Rubaiyat has completed her B.A. in Women Studies from Smith College, USA and M.A. in South Asian Studies from University of Pennsylvania. Currently she lives between Dhaka and New York making films and attending Tisch School of Arts at New York University in Cinema Studies.

Garin Hovannisian is an Armenian-American writer and filmmaker. He graduated from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and co-wrote and co-directed the feature film 1915 (15). I Am Not Alone (19) is his latest film.