Stacy Robinson has 20 years of experience writing and producing documentaries for television networks such as CNBC, National Geographic, Discovery and Disney+. She wrote and directed the Emmy Award winning documentary on “Ida B. Wells and the Birth of Gospel Music” for PBS and received a National Emmy nomination for her work as Co-Director of “We Are Witnesses: Chicago”.

She is currently Artistic Director of Kartemquin Films. With its legacy of award-winning documentaries (“Hoop Dreams”, “The Interrupters”, “Life Itself”) Kartemquin champions filmmakers who understand that documentaries are powerful vehicles for truth that can transform the world around us.

John Yaworsky is an award-winning creative producer director with 20 years of
traditional and new media production experience on feature films, commercials,
online education, corporate communications and documentaries.

Meg began her career as a photo and video journalist at the Houston Chronicle and then held a leadership role at Teach For America where she built the nonprofit’s first video studio. After overseeing content development and digital strategy at an LA-based agency, Meg co-founded Universe Creative, a documentary production company. Meg’s work has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and supported by the International Documentary Association and Redford Center. She holds a MA in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.

Jen Rainin founded Frankly Speaking Films with Rivkah Beth Medow to tell mesmerizing stories about strong queer women. Together, they created the feature documentary AHEAD OF THE CURVE (Netflix), the Oscar® shortlisted short documentary HOLDING MOSES (The New Yorker), Berlinale Grand Prix winner HUMMINGBIRDS (2023, POV), QUEER FUTURES (2024, The Criterion Collection), and OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage (2024, festivals). Jen is a Film Independent fellow whose other credits include HOMEROOM (EP: Hulu), TWO SPIRITS (EP: Independent Lens), SHIT & CHAMPAGNE (EP: Hulu). With her wife, Jen co-founded The Curve Foundation to champion LGBTQ+ women’s stories and culture through intergenerational programming and community building.

Loi Ameera Almeron is a versatile documentary producer and post supervisor who is the 2024 Elevate Award winner from the Berkeley Film Foundation and Jonathan Logan Family Foundation. She currently produced “Fractured” (PBS Frontline), "For Our Children" (Netflix/Array), "Baseball Behind Barbed Wire" (PBS), and Diamond Diplomacy (NEH; premiering Fall 2025). She helped produce “Stephen Curry: Underrated” (AppleTV; FOCAL Nominee) and “And So It Begins” (PBS Independent Lens) that both world premiered at Sundance Film Festival. She also edited "Hale" which won the Student Academy Award for Documentary 2017, and "Making The Five Heartbeats," a 2019 NAACP Image Awards nominee for Outstanding Documentary.

With her deep roots in Philippine investigative journalism combined with her deeper love of organization, Loi is a natural all-around expert in research, story development, FOI and public records, production and media management, archival, editing, and post supervising. Her work focuses on investigative, historical, and personal documentaries on civil and disability rights, immigration and race, and science and society.

Loi holds her Master of Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a member of the Documentary Producers Alliance, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, A-Doc, and Investigative Reporters and Editors. She is a panelist for the National Freedom of Information Coalition and Immigration Film Fest.

Her films are available on PBS Frontline, Netflix, AppleTV, Prime Video, HBO, The Criterion Channel, iTunes, National Endowment for the Arts, and Good Docs. Her films are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Firelight Media, Berkeley Film Foundation, Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, Ohio Humanities, and more.

She is currently based in New York City.