Heather is an Emmy-winning filmmaker and a Guggenheim, Sundance, and Fulbright fellow. Her film WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM won an Emmy (POV), an Independent Spirit Award, and a SXSW Jury Award. Her recent feature documentary, BREAKING THE NEWS, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2023, won the David Carr Award for Truth in Filmmaking at the Montclair Film Fest, and had its broadcast and streaming premiere on PBS’ Independent Lens in February 2024. Her latest short documentary, FOR THE RECORD, about an editor trying to save her family’s newspaper in rural Texas, premiered at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and has screened at DC/DOX, New Orleans Film Fest, and the Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival, among others. The film had its streaming and broadcast premiere on PBS Reel South in May 2024.

Her earlier films include the Ford-funded feature doc THE UNAFRAID, which was broadcast on the national PBS series America ReFramed; LETTERS FROM THE OTHER SIDE (supported by a Fulbright, premiered at Slamdance Film Festival, and aired on PBS); and LOS TRABAJADORES (IDA Award, SXSW Audience Award, and Indie Lens broadcast).

Prior to receiving her MFA in Film, Heather spent eight years writing and photographing for the United Nations and several relief agencies, including in the Rwandan refugee camps after the 1994 genocide there. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their recently adopted 8-year-old pit bull, but is from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and is proud to call herself a Yooper.

Princess is a director, producer, and Emmy-nominated editor based in NYC. Princess recently wrapped several doc series to be released in 2023. She edited This World is Not My Own, which recently had its World Premiere at SXSW. Her work can be seen on LuLaRich, Pier Kids, Fresh Dressed, and Capture with Mark Seliger. She is a recipient of the Pano x Ablecine 2023 Cinematographer’s Lab, a 2020 nominee for the Lynn Shelton Of A Certain Age grant, a 2018 Winner of the NYTVF + WEtv Producer Pitch, and a 2018 recipient of the Karen Schmeer Editing Fellowship. Princess is on the inclusion and access committee for the Alliance of Documentary Editors; a member of ACROSS THE CUT, BIPOC Doc Editors; and Brown Girls Doc Mafia.

Chelsea is an Emmy®-nominated Mexican-American director and producer based in Texas. Named DOC NYC’s 2021 40 Under 40 Class, her feature documentary Building the American Dream, premiered at SXSW 2019 and won a Silver Telly Award for Social Impact. Chelsea’s producing work spans over 10 years in television and film including United Tacos of America (El Rey Network series); and That Animal Rescue Show (CBS All-Access). Breaking the News, a co-production with ITVS is her second feature documentary. She is a member of the Documentary Producers Alliance and Brown Girls Doc Mafia.