Ryan S. Camarda is a seasoned producer and director with over 15 years of experience in the film and media industry. He is the founder of West Of Worldly Productions LLC, where he has successfully directed, produced, and edited a wide array of projects, including Royalty Free: The Music of Kevin MacLeod, a documentary distributed by First Run Features that earned critical acclaim. Ryan's work spans documentaries, live-streamed sports content for Pace University Athletics, and innovative short films, including The Craigslist Files: Ep 1 Donnie and Charlotte, a comedy recognized at the 48 Hour Film Festival with a Best Actress award. His expertise also includes managing high-profile projects like the PBS *Renegades* series, which premiered at the Kennedy Center and ranked among the top videos on the American Masters YouTube channel. With a robust background in creative storytelling and logistical management, Ryan excels in guiding complex projects from concept to completion.

Maureen A. Ryan Bio

Maureen A. Ryan is a producer based in New York concentrating on narrative and documentary feature films. She is the co-producer of James Marsh's Man on Wire, a documentary that won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Documentary and the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best British Film. Her other co-producer credits include Dick Johnson Is Dead, which won the 2020 Sundance Special Jury Prize for Innovation in Non-Fiction Storytelling, garnered the top two 2020 Critics’ Choice Documentary awards for Best Picture and Best Director, a 2021 Emmy Award for Best Director (Documentary).

This year, Wisconsin Death Trip will be re-released for its 25th anniversary. Ryan is also a producer on Kirsten Johnson’s video art piece that will be installed on several video walls at the new Los Angeles Airport terminal due to open in 2026.

She also co-produced Becoming, which was nominated for four Emmy Awards, and Project Nim, which won the Sundance Best Director of World Cinema Documentary and was shortlisted for the 2011 Academy Award for Best Documentary. Ryan was co-executive producer of the USA Network’s television pilot Stanistan and the re-creations producer for Johanna Hamilton's feature 1971 and Alex Gibney's award-winning feature Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God. She was the production advisor on the first season of the Netflix series Making a Murderer. Her producer credits include Wisconsin Death Trip. The Gates, Red Flag, and Bomber.

She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and BAFTA. Ryan is a Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University's MFA Film program. She holds an MFA (Film) from Columbia University’s School of the Arts and a BA (Economics) from Boston College. She is the author of four books including the latest (third) edition of Producer to Producer: A Step-by-Step Guide to Low Budget Independent Film Producing and Film & Video Budgets, 6th Edition. The companion website for this book is at www.ProducerToProducer.com.

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.

Tony Peck is a Emmy Nominated Director of Photography, Camera Operator and Producer. He works on television, documentary and corporate projects. Contact: tony@peckmedia.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.

Alexandra Blaney is the Co-CEO, Creative Director of Shine Global, the non-profit production company that improves children's lives by telling powerful stories that raise awareness, promote action, and inspire change.