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Nancy Abraham
Nancy Abraham is Senior Vice President of Documentary Programming for Home Box Office. She is responsible for the development and production of HBO Documentary Films that have garnered numerous awards over the years including Primetime Emmy Awards, News and Documentary ... More...
Claire Aguilar
CLAIRE AGUILAR is Vice President of Programming at the Independent Television Service (ITVS), which funds, promotes and distributes independently produced programming to public television. She came to ITVS from public television station KCET/Los Angeles, where she programmed the station’s schedule ... More...
Natalia Almada
Recipient of the 2009 Sundance Documentary Directing Award for her film “El General,” Almada’s most recent film “El Velador” is a haunting look at violence through the eyes of the night watchman of Mexico’s most notorious narco-cemetery. Her previous credits ... More...
Daniele Anastasion
Daniele Anastasion has worked regularly on documentaries for National Geographic, including the Emmy-nominated Inside the Body Trade, an investigation of the international black market in human organs. She produced KKK: Inside American Terror for The National Geographic Channel and has ... More...
Jody Arlington
PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER
Jody Arlington is a communications strategist specializing in festival, entertainment and public education PR. She is Owner of Arlington + Co PR and has managed publicity for SILVERDOCS for the last nine years. She has spearheaded in-market ... More...
Shawn Armbrust
Shawn Armbrust, Executive Director, has extensive experience in the innocence community. As an undergraduate at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Shawn was instrumental in achieving the 1999 death row exoneration of Anthony Porter. From 1999 to 2001, Shawn was ... More...
Patricia Aufderheide
Patricia Aufderheide is University Professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. and director of the Center for Social Media there. She is the co-author with Peter Jaszi of Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance ... More...
Grover Babcock
Grover Babcock was born in the U.S. and has B.A.s from the University of Southern California Department of Philosophy, and the School of Cinema-Television. More...
Orlando Bagwell
Orlando Bagwell is Director of Freedom of Expression at the Ford Foundation in the Education, Creativity and Free Expression Program and is responsible for the Foundation’s global program in these fields. In 2004, Orlando Bagwell joined the Ford Foundation as ... More...
Joe Bailey, Jr.
INCENDIARY is Joe Bailey, Jr.’s first feature-length film. After graduating from the University of Texas School of Law, Joe began working as a cinematographer and sound recordist in Austin. His work in music documentary has brought him to interview and ... More...
Amir Bar-Lev
Amir Bar-Lev directed the films Fighter (2001,) My Kid Could Paint That (2007,) and The Tillman Story (2010.) He co-produced the documentary Trouble The Water, 2008 Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner and 2009 Academy Award Nominee. Bar-Lev is currently developing ... More...
Ray Barry
Director, AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
Ray Barry has spearheaded AFI’s initiative for the rehabilitation of the Silver Theatre and creation of the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center—a state-of-the-art center for the moving image arts. For many years, ... More...
Mark Belinsky
Mark Belinsky brings experiences working in technology, media and civil society for over five years, with projects extending from Europe, the Middle-East and the Caucasus to South and Southeast Asia, Southern Africa and the USA. In the Caucasus, Mark helped ... More...
April Benavides
April Benavides joined New Video in 2008, where she oversees consumer and trade marketing and promotions for film and entertainment content releasing on streaming and download digital platforms, VOD and DVD. April manages the library of more than 300 titles ... More...
Seth Berlin
Seth D. Berlin is the Managing Partner of Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, LLP (www.lskslaw.com) and is based in the firm’s Washington, DC office. He has represented clients in First Amendment, defamation, privacy, access, reporter’s privilege, copyright, and trademark disputes ... More...
Joe Berlinger
Two-time Emmy and Peabody winner Joe Berlinger has been a leading voice in nonfiction film and television for two decades. Films include the landmark documentaries BROTHER’S KEEPER, PARADISE LOST: THE CHILD MURDERS AT ROBIN HOOD HILLS, and METALLICA: SOME KIND ... More...
Gabriella Bier
Gabriella Bier graduated from the documentary department at the University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre in Stockholm 1997. Prior to that she worked as a journalist for press and TV, with African culture and social issues as field ... More...
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