Fenell Doremus is an Emmy Award winning producer with deep connections in the Chicago documentary community. Credits include: the Academy Award nominated and Emmy Award winning, ABACUS: Small Enough to Jail, (2017); producer and director Mr. Doremus Does What He Can (2024); COOKED: Survival by Zip Code (2020); Field Producer Ringside (2019); City So Real (2019); producer, director and editor on A YEAR ON TEEN STREET (2005); and segment producer and co-editor of THE NEW AMERICANS (2004). Fenell served on the Kartemquin Films board of directors from 2018-2024 and has been a member of the Documentary Producers Alliance since 2017 - current Chair, Regional Committee and Co-rep for the Midwest. She is also an adjunct professor at DePaul University's School of Cinematic Arts.

Katy Scoggin is a documentary filmmaker Producer/Director. FLOOD, her directorial debut, will be released in 2025 on Independent Lens. Previously, Katy worked for Laura Poitras on three features and two shorts. She co-produced and DP'd on Oscar winner CITIZENFOUR and on Cannes Directors Fortnight premiere RISK. She produced NY Times OpDocs The Program and Death of a Prisoner and associate-produced Sundance award winner THE OATH. More recently, Katy worked as a cameraperson on in-progress docs ADAM'S APPLE by Amy Jenkins and Wonder Collaborative doc TREE PEOPLE by Regina Sobel.

Jacob Fertig is a New York-based nonfiction filmmaker, archival producer, and Co-Founder of Denizen Studios. His films have played at festivals including SXSW, AFI, Hot Docs, and NOFF, and published by Scientific American, New York Magazine, and New York Daily News. His archival producing work spans museums to magazines, including permanent exhibits at Ellis Island and The Holocaust Center and frontpage articles in Tablet. His projects have received support from Field of Vision, Tribeca Institute, If/Then, Docs by the Sea, Amnesty International, Forensic Architecture, Doc Society, and thousands of donors.