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Suzannah Herbert is a documentary director and editor from Memphis whose directing work focuses on the American South. Herbert directed and produced the twice Emmy-nominated film WRESTLE. Named one of the top 5 documentaries of 2019 by the National Board of Review, lauded as “superb” by the Los Angeles Times, and hailed as a New York Times Critic’s Pick, WRESTLE was released theatrically by Oscilloscope and broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens. As an editor, she has collaborated on various Bob Dylan, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga projects, music videos and award-winning films like 2022’s A WOMAN ON THE OUTSIDE (SXSW 2022, PBS’s America Reframed). Her second feature film, NATCHEZ, premiering at the 2025 Tribeca Festival, was supported by ITVS, Catapult Film Fund, the Ford Foundation, Rooftop Films Fund, CIFF Points North Fellowship, Logan Nonfiction Fellowship, Yaddo, True False Catapult Rough Cut Retreat, and Film Independent.

Jacqueline Glover is currently executive director of the Black Film Project at Harvard. The newly created initiative by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. designed to support filmmakers focusing on the Black experience. She is also Executive Producer of the new award-winning documentary, NATCHEZ. Glover was formerly the Head of Documentaries for Disney’s Onyx Collective, where she produced, developed and acquired non-fiction projects, including the Oscar® winning documentary SUMMER OF SOUL. Other projects included Peabody Award winner, and Emmy® Award nominated AFTERSHOCK, and Emmy® Award winner The 1619 Project. In addition to Onyx collective, Glover was also Head of ABC News Documentary Films and Executive Produced the duPont Award winner LEAVE NO TRACE, Emmy® Award nominated SOUND OF THE POLICE, THE LADY BIRD DIARIES, and Emmy® Award nominated PRETTY BABY: BROOKE SHIELDS. Previously, Glover was senior vice president, HBO Documentaries, and oversaw all aspects of the department’s programming. Projects included Emmy® Award winner and Peabody Award winner TRUE JUSTICE, Emmy® Award winner KING IN THE WILDERNESS, Oscar® winner CRISIS HOTLINE: VETERANS PRESS 1, and Spike Lee’s Oscar® nominated documentary 4 LITTLE GIRLS, and his Emmy® Award winning documentary WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A REQUIEM IN FOUR ACTS. Glover also produced UNCHAINED MEMORIES: READINGS FROM THE SLAVE NARRATIVES, which premiered at Sundance and received 4 Emmy® nominations. Glover’s projects have received numerous awards, including 10 Emmys® and 5 Academy Awards®. Glover holds a bachelor’s in fine arts from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and is a member of the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild of America.

Noah Collier is a cinematographer and director whose directorial debut, CARPET COWBOYS, released by Memory, premiered theatrically in the U.S. in August 2023. Collier’s cinematography credits include the Sundance Special Jury award winner, JAWLINE (Hulu), THE COME UP (Hulu) and SANTA CAMP (HBO).




Darcy McKinnon is a documentary filmmaker based in New Orleans whose work focuses on the American South and the Caribbean. Recently released projects include A KING LIKE ME and ROLEPLAY (SXSW, 2024), COMMUTED (PBS, 2024), ALGIERS, AMERICA (Hulu, 2023), UNDER G-D (Sundance 2023), LOOK AT ME! XXXTENTACION (SXSW, Hulu, 2022) and THE NEUTRAL GROUND (Tribeca, POV, 2021). Current projects in production include Jason Fitzroy Jeffers’s THE FIRST PLANTATION, Abe Felix’s TURNAROUND, CJ Hunt’s UNLEARNED, Nicole Craine’s KINFOLK and Zac Manuel’s THE INSTRUMENT. McKinnon’s work has been seen on World Channel, AfroPop, POV, Reel South, LPB, and Hulu and has screened at Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, CPH:DOX, and more. She is an alum of the Impact Partners Producing Fellowship and the Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellowship and is a recipient of American Documentary’s Creative Visionary Award.

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