Daniel Wright (he/him) is an Emmy-nominated documentary producer known for The Social Dilemma (2020), The Human Element (2018), Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back (2016), and Racing Extinction (2015). With a decade of production experience, Daniel strives to build teams upon strong foundations of trust and collaboration, ones that are collectively invested in telling stories that shift viewers’ perspective through creative and empathetic leaps.

DPA Coordinator

Producer, Writer, Story Consultant working across documentary, narrative, education, literature. Known for Sons of Detroit (DOC NYC 2025), The Bones (CPH:DOX 2024), Death Metal Angola (IFFR, CPH:DOX, 90+ film festivals on 7 continents), Films BYKids series (PBS). Former programmer at Tribeca FF, consultant at Nantucket Screenwriters Colony. Founding Editor-in-Chief and Senior Producer, Nomadic Learning. MFA in fiction/screenwriting.

Tamara Dawit, an Ethiopian-Canadian filmmaker, has produced films such as Girls of Latitude (2008), Grandma Knows
Best (2014), Finding Sally(2020, Gothenburg/Hot Docs), Alazar (2024, Cannes/TIFF), and Made in Ethiopia (2024, Tribeca/Sheffield) through her company, Gobez Media. She is currently producing a variety of dramatic and documentary projects. In 2021, Tamara was a TIFF Producer Fellow and won the Doc Institute Vanguard and Gordon Parks Awards for Black Excellence in Filmmaking. She is also a Chalmers Arts Fellow (2023) and a MacDowell Fellow (2024).

Tamara serves as Head of Studies for EAVE’s programs with the National Screen Institute and the International Sami Film Institute. She also mentors filmmakers through Hot Docs, the Doc Institute, the Toronto Arts Foundation, and Documentary Africa.