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.

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.

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.

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.