Kimberly Reed’s Dark Money was an award-winning selection at the Sundance Film Festival, then promptly named one of Vogue’s “66 Best Documentaries of All Time,” shortlisted for an Oscar, nominated as Best Documentary by IDA and for four Critics’ Choice Awards, and won the duPont Columbia Prize for Broadcast Journalism. Her trailblazing film Prodigal Sons premiered at Telluride, won 14 international awards, and was the first documentary by a transgender filmmaker theatrically released in the US. She directed episode two, ‘Transgender Pioneers”, of Equal for HBO MAX. Kim was the EP of the award-winning 2020 HBO documentary Transhood. She also produced/edited/wrote Paul Goodman Changed My Life (Zeitgeist Films) and was an early producer of The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (Netflix). Kim has been honored as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” Out Magazine’s “Out 100,” and a distinguished Chicken & Egg Award recipient. A frequent juror (Sundance, DOCNYC), lecturer (Harvard, Columbia, NYU), and speaker (Moth Radio Hour), she is a member of AMPAS.

Kelly Anderson is a Sunset Park-based documentary filmmaker whose most recent films are Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square (w. Ryan Joseph and Kathryn Barnier). Her 2012 film My Brooklyn, about the hidden forces driving gentrification, was broadcast on PBS’s America ReFramed. Kelly produced and directed Every Mother’s Son (PBS, 2004, with Tami Gold) about mothers whose children were killed by police, which won the Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award and aired on POV. She also produced and directed Out At Work (HBO, 2000, with Tami Gold), which premiered at Sundance and won a GLAAD Best Documentary award. From 2015-17, she co-chaired the cooperative distribution company New Day Films. Kelly is the Chair of the Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College (CUNY).

Chloe Gbai is an Emmy-nominated producer and filmmaker. She’s worked for over a decade on independent and commercial projects, starting with her first PA job working for Amir Bar-Lev on Happy Valley (2014, A&E Indie Films). Her most recent project, Shut Up and Paint, follows artist Titus Kaphar grappling with an insatiable art market seeking to silence his activism. The short film was released in 2022 on POV Shorts, played numerous film festivals, and has been honored with a Cinema Eye Nomination and Shortlisted for the 2023 Academy Awards for the Short Documentary category.

She currently works on Netflix’s Original Documentary Films team. Previously, as the POV Shorts and Streaming Producer, she launched POV Shorts, which in its first season earned a Documentary Short Oscar nomination, two Emmy nominations, and an IDA Awards nomination for Best Short Form Series. She’s a graduate of NYU’s Gallatin School and a proud member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia. She’s a 2020 Impact Partners Producing Fellow, a DOC NYC New Leader, and a member-in-residence of the Meerkat Media Collective.

Jay Arthur Sterrenberg is a director and editor based in New York City. His documentary editing credits include Academy Award-shortlisted Dark Money (PBS, 2018), Emmy winning Trophy (CNN Films, 2018), Tribeca award-winning Untouchable (2016), Academy Award-shortlisted Netflix Original After Maria (2019), and the 2020 Netflix doc series Immigration Nation, which won a Peabody Award and Best New Documentary Series at the Independent Spirit Awards. Jay is a co-founder of the Sunset Park-based Meerkat Media Collective. His short documentary Public Money (PBS, 2018) is an observed portrait of an experiment in participatory democracy in Sunset Park.