Enrique Rivera (he/him) is a bilingual documentary producer, storyteller, and cultural worker from the Puerto Rican diaspora. His work, featured on HBO Max, Netflix, and National Geographic, amplifies marginalized voices through inclusive narratives and collaborative practices. Skilled in field production, archival research, story development, and investigative reporting, Enrique brings a broad range of experience to documentary production with a focus on cultural preservation, intergenerational dialogue, and social justice. As a producer for Menudo: Forever Young (HBO Max) and Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic), he has earned a reputation for uncovering nuanced stories and fostering meaningful connections while integrating innovative, multidisciplinary approaches to redefine non-fiction storytelling.

Joslyn Barnes is a WGA award-winning, Oscar and BAFTA nominated screenwriter and three-time Oscar nominated and Emmy award winning producer of over 60 feature and documentary films, series and artworks shot in 26 countries. Since establishing Louverture Films in 2005 together with actor Danny Glover, she has forged relationships with top-tier directors, actors, producers, galleries, talent agencies, film institutes and funding bodies, foundations and other philanthropic institutions, distributors and exhibitors, film festivals and curators, as well as a wide network of individual investors and grantors across the planet.

With an eye for beauty & a lust for meaning, Samantha Grant is an award-winning filmmaker, artist, journalist, and educator who harnesses the power of potent storytelling to inspire change on a broad scale by moving people, emotionally and intellectually, into new ways of thinking. By presenting beautifully crafted stories in collaboration with an international network of students Sam herself trained in 15 years of teaching at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism & Stanford’s Knight Fellowship, Sam’s work reaches millions worldwide, addressing topics like media ethics, global public health, religious cults, politics, education, and human rights, all from a female perspective. Sam’s work has been featured on PBS, ABC, CNN, NPR, MTV, Variety, A&E, History Channel, FRONTLINE, and more. Most recently, Sam co-founded Moving People Media, a storytelling nonprofit committed to inspiring people to see the humanity in one another through bold, beautiful storytelling, and to behave accordingly.

Stephanie Jenkins has been making historical documentaries for fifteen years, primarily as an archival producer and producer with Ken Burns. She is a Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Archival Producers Alliance, and is working to put a framework in place around generative AI use in documentaries.

Kady Le is a queer daughter of refugees and a freelance documentary producer, primarily serving as a line producer or associate producer on feature-length independent documentaries. She loves to collaborate and contribute to spaces with kindness and empathy. She is also a mom to two rescue bunnies, a mindfulness practitioner, and a tarot reader.