Violet Du Feng is an Emmy® Award-winning documentary filmmaker known for creating nuanced, intimate, and thought-provoking films that explore larger social issues. Over the past decade, she has directed, produced, and executive produced more than fifteen films. Her directing credits include THE DATING GAME, which premiered at Sundance 2025 in World Cinema Documentary Competition, and HIDDEN LETTERS, an Oscar®-shortlisted, Emmy® and Peabody nominated film that debuted at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival in documentary competition. HIDDEN LETTERS went on to win eleven festival awards and was broadcast in 15 countries. Violet is a member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and serves as an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Journalism School.

Catherine Rafferty is a multimedia journalist and documentary filmmaker from upstate New York

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.