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.

Richard O'Connor has been contributing animation to non-fiction projects since the Year 2000. In the ensuing decades he has collaborated with dozens of documentarians and has produced and directed dozens more short subjects, primarily oral histories.

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.

PJ Raval is a queer, first generation Filipinx American filmmaker whose work examines social justice issues through the voices of queer and marginalized subjects.