Juliane Dressner is a director, producer and cinematographer who makes character based films that explore economic and racial justice issues. Her film, THE SCARS OF STOP-AND-FRISK, was part of an Emmy-winning season of Op-Docs published by The New York Times. She won the National Magazine Award for video for her film, AN EDUCATION, which was published by The New York Times Magazine. She has also had films published by The Guardian, The Atlantic, New York magazine, and Buzzfeed. Her feature-length film, PERSONAL STATEMENT, was nominated for an Emmy and broadcast on PBS. 

Beth Levison is a seasoned independent producer/director and the recipient of two national Emmy Awards and three Peabody Awards.  As producer, she recently completed 32 PILLS: MY SISTER’S SUICIDE (Hot Docs, 2017), a raw, personal portrait of grief, which broadcast on HBO in 2018. Prior to that, she produced THE TRIALS OF SPRING (Human Rights Watch Int’l Film Festival, 2015), a cross-media project including a feature-length documentary and six shorts about women human rights activists in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen that will premiere on PBS stations in 2018.  Her independent documentary directorial debut LEMON (DOC NYC, 2011) about Brooklyn-born poet and performer Lemon Andersen was executive produced by Impact Partners and Russell Simmons, shown at some 40 festivals around the world, and broadcast on PBS stations nationwide. Levison is producing faculty with the MFA program in Social Documentary Film at the School of Visual Arts (SVA).

Edwin Martinez is a Bronx-born filmmaker whose work has screened theatrically, nationally, internationally and on major television and news outlets including PBS, ESPN, Fox, CBS, and the New York Times. His first feature documentary, TO BE HEARD, was named by the New York Times a “critics pick” and “one of the best documentaries of the year.” The film went on to win awards at DOC NYC, Seattle International, Nantucket, San Diego Latino, and Sarasota film festivals among others. Martinez also co-developed and produced THE CLEMENTE EFFECT (dir. Mario Diaz), edited CITY OF TREES (dir. Brandon Kramer), and shot RACHEL IS (dir. Charlotte Glynn), LEAVE NO SOLDIER (dir. Donna Bassin), LAS MARTHAS (dir. Cristina Ibarra) and WHAT ALICE FOUND (dir. A. Dean Bell, Special Grand Jury Prize winner, 2003 Sundance Film Festival). Martinez has recently returned to his alma mater as an Assistant Professor of Film in the SUNY Purchase Film Conservatory.

Madeleine Gavin works in both narrative and documentary film, primarily as an editor.  Madeleine recently completed work on LUCE starring Naomi Watts and Octavia Spencer.  Madeleine's work on Rebecca Cammisa's Academy Award-nominated documentary, WHICH WAY HOME earned her an Emmy nomination. Their most recent collaboration was on Cammisa’s HBO documentary, ATOMIC HOMEFRONT. Madeleine directed and edited the Netflix Original Documentary, CITY OF JOY, which follows the first class of students at a revolutionary leadership center in war-torn Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. She is now in production on two documentaries. Madeleine teaches in the Graduate Film Program at Columbia University.