Abby Ellis is a Peabody- and Emmy-nominated director and journalist who makes films about the moments and institutions that shape us. Her work fuses rigorous reporting with intimate, character-driven filmmaking, bringing the human cost of complex stories into vivid focus.

Erik Osterholm is a multi-Emmy award-winning executive producer and director who has produced over 80 hours of critically acclaimed documentary programming, multiple feature documentaries, and short and long-form content for networks, streamers, brands, and institutions. Erik is the only director-producer to have produced both award-winning unscripted series, CNN’s Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown and HBO’s VICE, taking him to all seven continents and some of the most remote corners of our planet. Since then, Erik has developed and produced multiple new series and talent as an Executive Producer and the SVP of Development at Zero Point Zero Production Inc., including the investigative series The Business of Drugs; Latif Nasser’s Connected: The Hidden Science of Everything on Netflix; and a soon to be released Zac Efron documentary as well as a recently released CNN documentary series with Master Sommelier Carlton McCoy entitled Nomad.