Ora DeKornfeld is an Emmy Award–winning documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and editor whose work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, CNN, and Netflix. Her Emmy-nominated short USA V SCOTT premiered at Tribeca and was acquired by The New Yorker. She was the cinematographer and editor on MIJA (Sundance, Disney+) and part of the editing team on Elizabeth Lo’s MISTRESS DISPELLER.

Most recently, she directed the short STALIN BOYS, which won both the Audience Award and Special Jury Prize at SXSW 2026 and will premiere on New York Times Op-Docs.

Bianca Giaever is an independent radio journalist and filmmaker. Her upcoming documentary feature FREE HELP was recently profiled in The New York Times. Her stories have appeared on This American Life, Radiolab, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. She is the creator and host of CONSTELLATION PRIZE, a podcast distributed by The Believer magazine, and a former producer on The New York Times’ audio team, where she produced and occasionally hosted episodes of THE DAILY.

In 2013, her college short film THE SCARED IS SCARED was named “Web Video of the Year” by USA Today. She is the winner of a Daytime Emmy Award and a Webby Award and recently completed a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University.