Kendall is a NJ/NY-based biologist and documentary film producer. Her films focus on multispecies encounters and underrepresented stakeholders in field science. She is producing her first feature film “With Their Backs to the Sky” a sensory ethnographic non-fiction feature that immerses into the tightly entangled lives of field biologists, local bat catchers and Old World fruit bats in Madagascar.

Josh Penn is a producer with the Department of Motion Pictures. He has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture and Outstanding Producer at the Producers Guild Awards. He also won a Peabody Award and the Sundance Producers Award. Since 2012, he has premiered a dozen films at Sundance, earning six awards from the festival. His productions include BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (Sundance Grand Jury Prize, Cannes Caméra d’Or, and four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture), 32 SOUNDS (Oscar Shortlist), MONSTERS AND MEN (Sundance Special Jury Prize), the series PHILLY D.A. (Gotham and Peabody Award winner), among others. Josh has mentored at institutions such as The Sundance Institute, Film Independent, NYU, and AFI. Josh is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Outside of film, Josh has worked in politics including leading roles on the digital teams for both Obama presidential campaigns.

An award-winning filmmaker based in Berkeley, CA, Elivia is driven by filmmaking that uses intimacy and personal narrative to question our larger social systems and identities. Her work has been featured on the Atlantic and PBS, and screened at festivals including AFI DOCS, DOC NYC, and Big Sky. Her short film, The Clinic, won awards at seven festivals including the Grand Jury Prize at AFI Fest. She previously worked on award-winning television series and documentaries for Al Jazeera, HBO and PBS including Al Jazeera's Empire, Life According to Sam and Sky & Ground. Elivia Co-Produced Natalia Almada’s Users, winner of the 2021 Directing Award at Sundance, and Co-Produced and Co-Edited Leslie Tai’s How to Have an American Baby (True False 2023, PBS POV 2023). She is currently directing her first feature documentary which received support from ITVS, SFFILM, the Redford Center and the Berkeley Film Foundation. She is a graduate of Stanford University’s Documentary MFA where she has taught film production courses since 2018.