Aurin Squire - Aurin Squire is an award-winning playwright, reporter, and multimedia artist. He is a two-time recipient of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize from Lincoln Center and he won the 2017 Helen Merrill Prize for Emerging Playwrights and the Emerald Prize from Seattle Public Theatre. He has received residencies at the Royal Court Theatre in London, Ars Nova, Lincoln Center Lab, National Black Theatre, the Dramatists Guild of America, and Brooklyn Arts Exchange. His plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, London, and Toronto. As an independent reporter he has written for The Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, The New Republic, ESPN, Talking Points Memo, FUSION, and many other publications around the country. As a multimedia artist, Squire wrote Dreams of Freedom, the multimedia installation video about Jewish immigrants in the 20th century for the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. Dreams won 3 national museum awards and is in the permanent exhibit at NMAJH.
Squire has been a writer for the CBS political satire “BrainDead," and the NBC family drama "This is Us." He is currently a producer/writer for the CBS shows "The Good Fight" as well as the supernatural drama "Evil."
In his spare time, he writes reviews of new plays, meditates, and studies religion. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School, New School University, and Northwestern University.
Christie Marchese
Christie Marchese is the founder and CEO of Picture Motion, the leading social impact agency developing award-winning marketing, advocacy and distribution campaigns for documentary and scripted media. She leads a team of impact producers and works in partnership with filmmakers, brands, distributors, foundations, and nonprofits to amplify awareness and activate audiences around content. Picture Motion partnered on over 150 projects, from Bully and Escape Fire, to Lion and The Report. Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, National Geographic, Vulcan Productions, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Patagonia, Gucci, Red Bull Media House and Fox Sports are among their clients. Previously, Christie ran Digital Strategy for the Social Impact Group at Participant Media and for Norman Lear’s nonprofit, Declare Yourself. She spent time at Human Rights Watch and the International Rescue Committee. She was named a 2019 Woman of Influence by the New York Business Journal and landed on Business Insider’s list of 30 Most Creative People in Advertising Under 30 (2014). Christie is a Board Member at the Tribeca Film Institute, Reinvent Stockton and Farmer's Footprint.
Jay Arthur Sterrenberg
Jay Arthur Sterrenberg is a New York based filmmaker and a co-founder of Meerkat Media, an award-winning arts collective & worker cooperative production company that prioritizes shared authorship and consensus in their creative process. Since 2005, they have produced collaboratively-directed feature documentaries, independent short films and hundreds of commissioned media projects for grassroots organizations, news magazines, foundations and nonprofits.
Jay’s work has broadcast on PBS,HBO, NETFLIX & CNN and screened at Sundance, Tribeca, Berlin & IDFA. His documentary editing credits include the 2020 Netflix series Immigration Nation (Dir. Shaul Schwarz & Christina Clusiau), Oscar short-listed Dark Money (Dir. Kimberly Reed), Emmy winning Trophy (Dir. Shaul Schwarz & Christina Clusiau), Oscar nominated Redemption (Dir. Jon Alpert & Matt O’Neill) and Oscar Shortlisted Netflix Original After Maria (Dir. Nadia Hallgren).
As a director, his short documentary Public Money (PBS) is an observed portrait of an experiment in participatory democracy in Meerkat’s home neighborhood of Sunset Park.
Alan d’Escragnolle
Alan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Filmhub and is currently working to fix film distribution and empower creators.
Josh Fox
Josh Fox is an American film director, playwright and environmental activist, best known for his Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning 2010 documentary, Gasland. He is one of the most prominent public opponents of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. He is the founder and artistic director of a film and theater company in New York City, International WOW, and has contributed as a journalist to Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, NowThis, AJ+ and Huffington Post.
Suzan Beraza
Suzan is an Hispana-Latina-American and was born and raised in the Caribbean. Her films have been shown on Independent Lens, World Channel, Pivot TV and on the Documentary Channel, at Lincoln Center, and at many festivals. Her first film, BAG IT, was a winner of the Britdoc Impact Award in Berlin and has been televised in over fifty countries. URANIUM DRIVE-IN was a recipient of Sundance Institute and Chicken and Egg funding and was featured at Good Pitch and at Hot Docs Pitch Forum. The film was broadcast on Independent Lens, awarded the Big Sky Award, honored for documentary excellence by the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, and was part of the American Film Showcase, an international film program of the U.S. State Department. Her most recent film, MASSACRE RIVER: The Woman Without a Country aired on PBS, is the recipient of ITVS funding, and was selected for the Latino Media Market, Camden International Film Festival Points North Fellowship, and IFP Spotlight on Documentaries. Suzan became Festival Director for Mountainfilm festival in Telluride, Colorado in 2017, and is currently Chair of New Day Films’ Steering Committee.