Judith Mizrachy is a New York City-based producer whose films include the Academy Award-nominated documentary THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT (2022), THE BOOKSELLERS (2020), and most recently UNCROPPED (2024). Her films have screened at festivals including Sundance, New York Film Festival, DOC NYC, Hot Docs and SXSW. Her work has been shown on big screens around the world including Lincoln Center, BAM, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Bertha DocHouse London, and on small screens via Netflix, The Criterion Channel, The New Yorker and more.

.Martine Phelan-Roberts is a documentary producer with a passion for telling powerful and impactful stories. She has produced over a dozen documentary features, series, and shorts.

Véronique Bernard’s experience as a documentary film and television producer, director and development executive includes WNET Culture & Arts Documentaries, Sundance Channel Original Programming, New York Times Television, National Geographic Television, ABC News Productions and SBS Television Australia where she was Head of Production. Her award-winning documentary films include The People vs. Agent Orange for ITVS/Independent Lens and ARTE, winner of the 2021 Erik Barnouw Award. Her work has screened at festivals including Tribeca, DOC NYC, Margaret Mead, Movies That Matter, Sheffield DocFest, FIFA and Sydney, and on PBS, ARTE, Al Jazeera, NHK, SBS, CBC, Sundance, Discovery and National Geographic.

DPA Coordinator

Lisa Leeman has made award-winning feature documentaries for thirty-five years. Her films illuminate social issues through intimate character-driven stories that follow protagonists over years at turning points in their lives.

Roger Ebert cited Leeman’s One Lucky Elephant as one of the best documentaries of 2011. She is currently producono and directing Walk by Me, a follow-up to her groundbreaking first film, Metamorphosis (Sundance Filmmakers Trophy; POV/PBS, 1990).

Lisa is a MacDowell Fellow, a member of the Motion Picture Academy, a former president of the International Documentary Association, and chairs the Ethics subcommittee for the Documentary Producers Alliance. A professor and endowed chair at the University of Southern California, she teaches Documentary Production and Cinematic Ethics.
www.Lisaleeman.com

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.