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Elijah Stevens (he/him) is a documentary producer based in New York City. He has produced TIME AND WATER (Sundance 2026), BARBARA FOREVER (Sundance 2026) which won the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award at Sundance and Teddy Award at Berlinale, LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY (True/False 2026), and HUMBOLDT USA (Visions du Réel 2026). He associate produced HOLLYWOODGATE (Venice 2023; BBC Storyville), KING COAL (Sundance 2023, POV), and the Oscar®-nominated FIRE OF LOVE (Sundance 2022, National Geographic Documentary Films), amongst other credits. Elijah’s work has been supported by Sundance, IDA, the Inmaat Foundation, IDFA, DOK Leipzig, The Gotham, DocsBarcelona, DOC NYC, DOK.Forum, and Ji.hlava, among others. Elijah was a 2019-2020 fellow in the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio, and is a 2025-26 Sundance Producers Lab fellow.

Taul Katz is a New York–based composer and sound artist working across film, installation, and performance. Their recent film work includes the score for BARBARA FOREVER, directed by Brydie O’Connor and produced by Killer Films, which premiered in U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win the Teddy Award at Berlinale. Other credits include BOUCHRA by Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki, JUST KIDS by Gianna Toboni, and Vuk Lungulov-Klotz’s MUTT. Katz was selected for the 2026 Marché du Film Spot the Composer program at Cannes, received support from New Music USA’s Reel Change Film Fund for BARBARA FOREVER, and was featured in the ASCAP Composer Spotlight at Sundance. Their practice moves between acoustic instrumentation, electronic sound, and experimental approaches to composition, with an interest in building musical languages that emerge closely from the emotional and material worlds of each film.

JD Samson is a musician, composer, performance artist, DJ, writer, and educator best known as a member of the feminist/electronic/punk band/performance project, Le Tigre. For over two decades, her work has moved between music, performance, queer culture, and pedagogy, including her band MEN and her most current music project, CRICKETS. Samson composed and performs the live score for Sam Green’s 32 SOUNDS, which received the 2024 Cinema Eye Award for Best Original Score and was shortlisted for an Academy Award®. She is currently an Associate Arts Professor and Area Head of Performance at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute.

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