Laura Reich is a narrative, documentary, and commercial producer. She’s a frequent collaborator with emerging filmmakers with unique perspectives. Her documentary work includes the PBS American Masters film RITA MORENO: JUST A GIRL WHO DECIDED TO GO FOR IT and the award-winning short STATUS PENDING. She’s produced two independent narrative features, KEPT BOY and ALL SORTS, as well as many shorts. Her projects have notably screened at Sundance, Raindance, AFI, Tribeca, Big Sky, and the Smithsonian African American Film Festival. Commercially she’s produced projects for Riot Games, Silent Hill, Twitch, LEGO, Red Bull, Facebook, G2 Esports, USC, and many more. In 2023 and 2024, she spoke at SXSW on panels about micro-budget filmmaking and micro-scale virtual production respectively.

PJ Raval is a queer, first generation Filipinx American filmmaker whose work examines social justice issues through the voices of queer and marginalized subjects.

Shmuel Hoffman, a film director and founder of the creative firm Hoffman Productions, has garnered recognition for his award-winning work at numerous Oscar®️-qualifying film festivals. His documentaries and campaigns delve into the human condition, social impact, and interfaith understanding. Hoffman collaborates with global brands like Lexus, MTV, Netflix, the Museum of Tolerance, and Harvard University. Additionally, he serves as a council member of the Israel’s President “Voice of the People” initiative, which aims to foster global dialogue.

Max Asaf is a Chicago-based, award-winning freelance documentary filmmaker. From 2016-2019, Max worked at Kartemquin Films, helping raise over $5 million for the organization and its documentaries. Max produced the 2024 IDA shortlisted documentary short Bad Hostage which reveals the pernicious origins of Stockholm Syndrome. Bad Hostage premiered at the 2024 Sheffield DocFest and won a special jury award at the BendFilm Festival. Max is the co-producer of The Last Strike, an upcoming feature documentary from Kindling Group on the 1981 PATCO strike, and was the producer of The Last Drop, a short sci-fi fiction film exploring the overlooked signs of relationship abuse. Max is also in early post-production on his feature directorial debut, Within the Box, a personal documentary about the memories, stories, and familial identity contained and lost in a box of photos smuggled out of Poland eight decades ago.

In her 30-plus years in the industry, Kerry has moved across the country twice: first west from Chicago where she began her career in commercial production with Ebel Productions; to the front range of Colorado where she discovered her love for documentary filmmaking and gained valuable non-profit, agency and comms experience with world class organizations such as The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, BAE Systems, The National MS Society, T-Mobile, and Texas Instruments before forming Exhibit A Pictures and moving east to Philadelphia where she is currently based. As a founding partner, Kerry has produced nine feature-length pop-culture deep dives with Exhibit A Pictures and developed an expert understanding of best practices in Fair Use. For AMC Shudder and director, Stephen Scarlata (Jodorowsky's Dune) Kerry produced Sharksploitation (‘23) and is currently executive producing the upcoming Trailblazer: The Debra Hill Story with Causeway Pictures. For longtime partner, Milkhaus, she produced Artificial Gamer (‘22) and is currently producing a new documentary about midlife sexuality, HOT. Kerry has been a working mother of two for the past two decades and recently served on the Board of the Documentary Producers Alliance and Executive Committee as Treasurer.