Prerana Thakurdesai is a New York based director and producer whose work affirms that all art is political. She tells stories across the US and India, centering women and the South Asian diaspora. Her credits include The Last Ecstatic Days (feature doc), Where The Light Enters You (short doc), The Last Resort (short doc), 9/11: The Legacy (TV doc) and the PBS World Channel aired micro-doc The Essential Worker. In India, she produced the globally acclaimed docu-TV series Satyamev Jayate, produced by Aamir Khan and watched by 600 million viewers. A Producers Guild of America Fellow and DOC NYC Documentary New Leader honoree, Prerana’s work streams on PBS, Amazon Prime, History Channel and Apple TV. She is also the co-founder of Bitchitra Collective, a network of 400+ women and non-binary documentary filmmakers of Indian heritage.

Kate Levy is a filmmaker and multimedia artist. Her documentary films, installations, sculptures, texts, and photography series interrogate power structures, political memory and cultural narratives. She has worked on projects related to water, education, police violence, immigration and environmental and economic justice. She has exhibited her work at museums, cultural centers, film festivals and conferences in the US and internationally.