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.

Marialuisa Ernst (she/they) is a queer, transcultural artist from Chile, Bolivia, and the U.S. Working across performance art and filmmaking, she delves into themes of memory, loss, and ritual. A Tribeca Film Institute alumna, her work has been showcased at international film festivals. A Place of Absence marks her feature-length directorial debut, supported by funding from Tribeca Gucci, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the NYC Women's Fund. The film has been featured in industry platforms such as the DOC NYC Forum, Gotham Lab, and Tribeca Film Network, among others. She is a member of the DPA (Documentary Producers Alliance) and BGDM (Brown Girls Doc Mafia).

Sarah Keo is a Cambodian-American filmmaker from Seattle. Chasing Time is Sarah’s directorial debut, which she co-directed alongside Emmy-winning filmmaker, Jeff Orlowski-Yang. Sarah currently resides in Denver and is a 2024 Cine Fe Fellow.

Nathaniel Hansen is an Emmy-nominated, Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker and educator. His work has screened at Tribeca, SXSW, and Hot Docs, and has been featured by The New York Times, PBS, and National Geographic. He resides in Boston with his family.