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.

Jaydn Ray Gosselin is a New York-based, French-Australian documentary director, producer, and editor. Jaydn’s films have been supported by Field of Vision, Doc Society, Amnesty International, Forensic Architecture, the Ads-Up Refugee Network, and over 1,300 donors. His productions have been pitched at Big Sky, AIDC, Camp 4Science, and Ji.hlava, covered in Forbes, New York Magazine, and Scientific American, among others, and have premiered at major festivals, including SXSW, HotDocs, and AFI. He is a Co-Creation Lab Fellow at Doc Society; an Art & Impact Fellow at Doc Society and AIDC; a Doc.Lab.Interact Fellow with Anagram, VicScreen, and AIDC; and a Development Studio Fellow at the NYU Production Lab.