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Robert Greene’s most recent film PROCESSION (Telluride 2021), is distributed by Netflix, was nominated for an Emmy, an Independent Spirit Award, a Peabody and was shortlisted for the Academy Award® for Best Documentary. Most recently, he produced and edited both PAVEMENTS (Venice 2024, NYFF 2024) and THE FEATHERWEIGHT (Venice 2023). Robert’s film BISBEE ’17 (2018) premiered at Sundance, had its U.S. theatrical premiere at Film Forum, aired on PBS’s P.O.V., and was nominated for Best Documentary at the Gotham Awards. Other films include the Sundance award winning KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE (2016), the Gotham Awards nominated ACTRESS (2014), and the Gotham Awards nominated KATI WITH AN I (2010). Robert was an inaugural Sundance Art of Nonfiction fellow in 2015. He has edited nearly twenty feature films, including HER SMELL (2018), GOLDEN EXITS (2017), QUEEN OF EARTH (2015), and LISTEN UP PHILIP (2014) by Alex Ross Perry, Nick Berardini’s KILLING THEM SAFELY (2015), Amanda Rose Wilder’s award winning APPROACHING THE ELEPHANT (2014), Charles Poekel’s Spirit Awards-nominated CHRISTMAS, AGAIN (2015), and Douglas Tirola’s HEY BARTENDER (2013). Robert has served as a Sundance Edit Lab Advisor and was on the U.S. Documentary Jury for Sundance 2017. He co-created the Murray Center for Documentary Journalism, where he currently serves as Filmmaker-In-Chief, and he also teaches in the School of Visual Studies at Mizzou. Robert writes about documentary for outlets such as Sight & Sound and Hyperallergic and he co-programs the Based on a True Story Conference, which runs annually in conjunction with True/False.

Ian Richard Devaney is a musician and songwriter most known for fronting the New York-based band Nation of Language. Since the release of their debut LP in 2020 the project has been met with widespread critical acclaim, notably leading to a television appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and their most recent album Strange Disciple being named 2023’s #1 album of the year by Rough Trade.

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