Debra McClutchy is a Brooklyn, NY-based documentary filmmaker, archival producer, and consultant with experience that spans development to distribution. She co-originated and co-directed The Martha Mitchell Effect, nominated for a 2023 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film. Her 2024 archival credits include Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted, Secret Mall Apartment, and Uncropped. In 2019, Debra co-produced the feature documentary The Booksellers. For nearly twelve years, she was a senior creator at Oscilloscope Laboratories, an independent film distributor in NYC founded by Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys. She was also a producer and research director for the world-renowned distributor The Criterion Collection and began her career as an associate producer in documentary television. She is a member of the Archival Producers Alliance and serves on the advisory group for Missing Movies, an organization that works to preserve film as an art form.

Rémi Grellety is an Oscar-nominated, Emmy, Peabody, César, and BAFTA-winning film producer. For 15 years, he produced Raoul Peck’s fiction and documentary films at Velvet Film (Paris, New York), including I Am Not Your Negro (2016, Audience awards at both Toronto and Berlin), The Young Karl Marx (2017, Berlin), the HBO miniseries, Exterminate All the Brutes (2021) as well as Silver Dollar Road (2023, TIFF) for Amazon Studios. Grellety also produced many debut documentary films. He founded Warboys Films. His last production, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat by Johan Grimonprez, won a Special Jury Award at Sundance 2024.

Informed by an archeology of present-day media, Johan Grimonprez’s work depicts intimate stories that brush up against the bigger picture of globalization. Grimonprez’s feature films include Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997), made in collaboration with novelist Don DeLillo, selected by the Guardian as one of the “30 great works in the history of video art”; Double Take (2009) made in collaboration with writer Tom McCarthy; and Shadow World (2016), made in collaboration with investigative journalist Andrew Feinstein. It premiered at the Tribeca Festival and won the Best Documentary Feature Award at the 2016 Edinburgh International Film Festival. Traveling the festival circuit from the Berlinale and Sundance to Tribeca, Grimonprez’s films have garnered several Best Director awards, the 2005 ZKM International Media Award, an Independent Spirit Award, and the 2009 Black Pearl Award at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival. His films have been acquired by PBS, NBC Universal, ARTE, and BBC/FILM 4. Grimonprez’s curatorial projects have been exhibited at museums worldwide, including the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, and MoMA in New York City. His works are in the collections of Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; and Tate Modern, London.

Bill Mack started his entertainment career on Sesame Street at three years of age. As a child actor, he became a regular on the soap opera All My Children and appeared in numerous TV commercials. Bill studied film at NYU and majored in Psychology and Film Studies at Yale. He produced and starred in the Student Academy Award-winning film Short Change in 1996. In the late ’90s, Bill started a multimedia production company based in Harlem. For the next ten years, he produced films, developed websites, and managed ad campaigns for numerous startups, artists, NGOs and large corporations such as Urban Box Office, Ralph Lemon, MacKenzie-Childs, American Express, the Schomburg Center, and AT&T. Bill runs his own production company, Cinomadic, producing independent films and supporting the artist community. Bill produced and starred in The Obituary of Jasper James, which won awards at various international festivals, including Best Short and Best Actor.

Originally from London, Rachel Elizabeth Seed is a Los Angeles and Brooklyn-based nonfiction storyteller working in film, photography and writing. Her work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, Chicken + Egg Pictures, NYFA, Field of Vision, the Jerome Foundation, NYSCA, the Maine Media Workshops, the Roy W. Dean grant, the Jewish Film Institute, Jewish Story Partners, and IFP/Gotham Labs, among others. Formerly a photo editor at New York Magazine, her photography has been exhibited at the International Center of Photography. She was a cameraperson on several award-winning feature documentaries, including Sacred by Academy-Award-winning filmmaker Thomas Lennon. Rachel’s writing has been published by No Film School, the Sundance Institute, and Talkhouse and she is co-founder of the Brooklyn Documentary Club, a thriving film collective with more than 300 members.