How to Do Good When the World Is Bad:

Hailing from the Netherlands, Steffie van Rhee is a multimedia journalist turned documentary filmmaker and Emmy Award-winning producer. Located in New York, she tries to combine her background in journalism with her love for documentary storytelling, finding the roots for stories in extensive research. She believes that sharing people’s personal stories can catalyze (social) change and create a deeper understanding of different experiences.

Her recent credits include co-producer of Love Machina, co-producer of Netflix original six-part documentary series Race: Bubba Wallace, about NASCAR’s only Black driver, and producer of AMC+ documentary All of Them Witches, directed by Mona Panchal. Steffie is also the co-producer of Battleground, about the fight for the future of abortion in America, by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Cynthia Lowen and the associate producer of Lowen’s previous feature documentary Netizens, about three women fighting back against online harassment. She is currently producing Earth to Michael (directors Nico Lopez-Alegría and Zach Zuckerman) alongside producer Dustin Nakao-Haider.

Additionally, Steffie is an active member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia, NYWIFT and the Documentary Producers Alliance, where she serves on the Ethics Resource Library Subcommittee. She is a proud 2021 Film Independent Doc Lab fellow and a 2020-2021 Impact Partners Documentary Producers fellow. She holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht and a graduate degree in Documentary Media Studies from The New School.

Sarah Rachael Wainio is a distinguished film and television producer. Sarah has produced 15 seasons of television both in the field and in post for leading networks including Netflix, MTV, WEtv, TLC, The Food Network, and Magnolia Network. Notably, Sarah field produced Season 2 of The Lost Kitchen, which won Realscreen’s 2023 Best Lifestyle Docureality Food Show.

Sarah came to documentary first as a participant in The Flight That Fought Back, What Happened?: The Story of September 11, 2001: With Linda Ellerbee, and 9/11: Four Flights after her sister was murdered on United Flight 93. Because of her life experience, she brings a sensibility and care to her practice that she continues to cultivate through her work as the co-chair of the Documentary Producers Alliance Ethics Subcommittee, and on the Ethics Squad – a group of documentary thought leaders touring the U.S. teaching ethics workshops.

Sarah’s filmography includes contributions to The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, 32 Pills: My Syster’s Suicide, and Busy Inside. In 2023, she was honored as one of DOC NYC’s Documentary New Leaders, an initiative co-presented by A&E IndieFilms, recognizing individuals working towards a more inclusive documentary industry. She is producing her first independent feature, The Sum of Our Parts, a contemporary queer love story in post production preparing for a 2026 premiere. Sarah lives in New York City with her cats Theodora and Tovah.

Anayansi Prado is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with over 20 years of experience. Her films have aired nationally on PBS, including Maid in America and The Unafraid, and screened at SXSW, Tribeca, and Full Frame, amongst others. She is a Concordia Fellow, Chicken & Egg Award recipient, Rockefeller Media Fellow, and Creative Capital Artist. Her work has been supported by The Sundance Institute, The MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, ITVS, Perspective Fund, Tribeca Studios, and others.

Anayansi has served as a mentor and instructor for various programs, including Sundance Collab, Film Independent Documentary Lab, Firelight Documentary Fellows, Chicken and Egg Alumni Nest, Sisters in Cinema Fellowship, and others. She has been a visiting film professor at UCLA’s Film School graduate program, Chapman University’s Film Department, and CalState Northridge’s Journalism Department.

Anayansi is a cultural envoy for the State Department’s program, American Film Showcase, and she has taught documentary workshops on 5 continents. Born in Panama, she resides in Los Angeles, CA.

Colleen Cassingham is a Producer at Multitude Films focused on politically committed artful nonfiction. She produced Reid Davenport’s second feature film LIFE AFTER, which won the US Documentary Special Jury Award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, and Casey Carter’s debut feature To Use a Mountain, which won the Special Jury Award at Visions du Réel 2025. She also produced the IDA Awards-nominated shorts collection Queer Futures, which is streaming on Criterion Channel. Her past credits include Co-Producer on It’s Only Life After All, and Associate Producer on Pray Away, Through Our Eyes: Apart, Call Center Blues, Always in Season, The Feeling of Being Watched, and Love the Sinner, which were distributed by Netflix, Topic, HBOMax, POV, and Independent Lens. Colleen’s directorial debut short From Damascus to Chicago was broadcast on POV and was an Editor’s Pick at The Atlantic. She was a 2023-2024 Sundance Producing Fellow, a 2023-2024 Impact Partners Producing Fellow, a VC Sony 2021 Mentor at The Video Consortium, a 2019 Points North Fellow, and a 2017–2018 UnionDocs Collaborative Studio fellow.