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Jul 1, 2020

Sriyanka Ray is a Brooklyn based Indian Video Journalist, Storyteller, and Producer of social issue content. She works as a Senior Producer at BRIC TV, an Emmy Award-winning cable TV and digital network for Brooklyn, New York. She helped create and develop BRIC TV's #BHeard strand of public affairs programming....


Jun 18, 2020

Sonya Childress served as the Director of Partnerships and Engagement for Firelight Media for 16 years, where she led impact campaigns for veteran director Stanley Nelson’s films, including Freedom Summer, Freedom Riders, Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities and The Black Panthers:...


May 21, 2020

Adele Free Pham is an activist and filmmaker whose work has appeared in over 20 film festivals, on HBO, PBS, and The Smithsonian. Her feature documentary called “NAILED IT”, about the genesis and culture of the Vietnamese nail industry, premiered on PBS in May 2019 and is the highest streamed film of the documentary...


May 13, 2020

Leah’s career in film began in Hawaii working in the marine department for the tv show LOST and HAWAII.  She’s a director and producer and her first feature, called FINDING HILLYWOOD  won multiple awards and screened at more than 65 festivals. She gave a TedX talk entitled “How Do You Cope With The Trauma...


May 6, 2020

James Ward Byrkit is a director and writer, known for the science fiction thriller Coherence, for which he was nominated for a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Director. He was the storyboard artist on the first three films of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and the storyboard artist and Co-Writer of the Academy...