Maria Fortiz-Morse is documentary filmmaker whose work has screened at festivals internationally and on the PBS documentary series "P.O.V.". From behind the camera, Maria quietly focuses on capturing the beauty, power and courage of her subjects who range in scope from presidential candidates and celebrities, to human rights activists and children living with disability. Her experience growing-up in a multiracial family inspires her to seek-out stories that can bridge cultural differences, and she believes passionately that documentary filmmaking can be a force for positive, social change.

Paris born, now New York based, Julie is an award-winning producer who started her career in France working for the Walt Disney Company before moving to New York to pursue a MFA in Creative Producing at Columbia University. Since then, Julie has established herself as an independent documentary film producer and has worked on a variety of documentary features and docu-series for Amazon (I Am: Celine Dion), Apple (Best Documentary Emmy nominee The Line), CNN (Death Row Stories), HBO (Academy Award winning short Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press One), and Showtime (Enemies: The President, Justice and the FBI) among others.