Kate Davis was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Prize at Doc NYC for her film, Traffic Stop. Her documentary, Southern Comfort won dozens of awards including the The Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, First Prize at Hot Docs and The Seattle Film Festival, The Grierson Award for Best Documentary and the Berlin Film Festival Special Jury Award.
Davis co-directed The Cheshire Murders for HBO and The Newburgh Sting (Peabody Award and Founder’s Prize at Traverse City Film Festival and was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy). She won an Emmy for Best Documentary with Jockey, and a Peabody Award for Stonewall Uprising.
Davis also directed Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland, the HBO documentary which won the NAACP Award for Best Documentary. Recently, she co-directed the award-winning film, R.I.P. T-Shirts, for Paramount Plus.
KATE DAVIS
(Director)
Luchina Fisher is an award-winning director, writer and producer whose work is at the intersection of race, gender and identity. Her feature directorial debut MAMA GLORIA is a 2022 GLAAD Media Award nominee, won multiple festival jury awards, and was broadcast on PBS. Her latest film, the short documentary THE DADS, about five fathers of trans kids on a weekend fishing trip, premiered at SXSW in March. Her short documentary TEAM DREAM won the Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film at the Chicago International Film Festival and Best Documentary at the Pan African and TIDE film festivals and aired on BET. Fisher is the director of two scripted short films and has written and produced several nationally broadcast documentaries, including two episodes of the History channel series with President Bill Clinton. Luchina also co-executive produced and co-wrote the critically acclaimed feature documentary Birthright: A War Story, which appeared in more than 70 theaters nationwide, qualified for Oscar consideration and streamed on Hulu.
LUCHINA FISHER
(Director)
Gary Gunn is an acclaimed composer/music producer who has collaborated on countless award-winning projects across film and multimedia, including cutting edge exhibitions at the Smithsonian, Palais De Tokyo, LACMA, TED, & SXSW. He is the composer of the Peabody Award winning TV series David Makes Man (HBO Max) and has scored several Grand Jury Prize winning documentaries including SXSW's 2022 winner, Master of Light (HBO). His singular artistic perspective has garnered attention from leading luminaries, including being selected for Oprah's Super Soul 100 list.
GARY GUNN
(Composer)
Caroline Berler is an award-winning documentary film director and editor based in New York City. Recent editing credits include The Lesbian Bar Project and Mama Gloria (Chicago Int'l Film Festival, PBS). Caroline directed and edited The Renegades for the New York Times Style Magazine, and Dykes, Camera, Action! (Frameline) for which she won the Emerging Talent Award at Outfest. She is on faculty at the School of Visual Arts and also holds an MFA in documentary film from SVA and a BA in Sociology from NYU. carolineberler.com
CAROLINE BERLER
(Editor)
Chelsi Bullard is a Memphis-born and Brooklyn-based filmmaker with an unwavering desire to restore beauty, well-being and complexity in stories about Black folx. Directing credits include the short documentaries On the Ledge (DOC NYC, 2017) and Hidden Wisdom (Socially Relevant Film Festival, 2016). Editing credits include the documentaries I Identify as Me which screened at multiple festivals including Inside Out (2022) and NewFest (2021), and the forthcoming feature documentary The Right to Read (directed by Jenny Mackenzie and Executive Produced by LeVar Burton, Geralyn Dreyfous, Regina K. Scully, Amy Redford, Katy Drake Bettner & Allison Gushée Molkenthin). She is an alumni of the Chicken & Egg Pictures Egg(celerater) Lab, Gotham Documentary Feature Lab and the DocSalon Toolbox Programme at the European Film Market (EFM) at Berlinale.
CHELSI BULLARD
(Editor)
Rupert Maconick is the founder and executive producer of award-winning production company Saville Productions. He has produced hundreds of short and long form projects with major brands with high-profile filmmakers, including: Martin Campbell (Casino Royale), Barry Levinson (Rain Man), Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man), and many others.
Saville produced the feature-length documentary, “5B”, for Johnson and Johnson, directed by Academy Award nominee, Dan Krauss. “5B” won the Entertainment Lions Grand Prix at Cannes Lions and the 2019 Grand Clio. The film was purchased by Verizon Media for theatrical distribution. “5B” is also the first brand-sponsored documentary to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Shoot listed “5B” as the best work of 2019.
Saville also produced the Werner Herzog documentary “Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World” for NetScout. “Lo and Behold” premiered at Sundance and was purchased by Magnolia Pictures for worldwide distribution. The film won the 2017 Grand Clio, 6 Cannes Lions and a D&AD Pencil.
Saville produced the feature-length documentary, “Own the Room,” for Shopify, directed by Darren Foster and Cristina Costantini. The film is streaming on Disney+