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David Osit (Director, Producer, Editor, Cinematographer) is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning director, editor and composer. His most recent film MAYOR (also a Film Forum premiere) won a Peabody and Emmy Award, was a New York Times Critics’ Pick, and holds a 100% Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. David directed, produced, edited, filmed and composed the feature documentary THANK YOU FOR PLAYING, which broadcast on POV in 2016, and was nominated for three Emmy awards, winning for Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary. He also edited and produced OFF FRAME, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and Berlinale in 2016, and he edited, produced and composed NO MAN’S LAND, which premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and broadcast on PBS Independent Lens in 2018. David’s feature directorial debut, BUILDING BABEL, premiered at True/False in 2012 and broadcast as the series premiere of PBS’s America Reframed in 2013. His work as an editor and consulting editor includes PROCESSION (Netflix), CRIME + PUNISHMENT (Hulu) and The Vow (HBO). He holds a BA in Middle Eastern and North African Studies from the University of Michigan as a Wallenberg Fellow and studied Refugee Law at the American University in Cairo.

Kellen Quinn is an Oscar®-nominated producer whose credits include Garrett Bradley's TIME (Oscar® nominated; Sundance 2020 winner of the Directing Award, US Documentary Competition), Luke Lorentzen's A STILL SMALL VOICE (shortlisted for Documentary Feature Oscar®; Sundance 2023 winner of the Directing Award, US Documentary Competition), Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie's SUGARCANE (Sundance 2024 winner of the Directing Award, US Documentary Competition – and a Film Forum premiere), Robie Flores's THE IN BETWEEN (SXSW 2024), Lorentzen's MIDNIGHT FAMILY (shortlisted for Documentary Feature Oscar®; Sundance 2019 winner of Special Jury Award for Cinematography, US Documentary Competition), Asher Levinthal’s SHAKEN (DOC NYC 2023), Noah Hutton’s IN SILICO (DOC NYC 2020), Daniel Hymanson’s SO LATE SO SOON (True/False 2020) and Viktor Jakovleski's BRIMSTONE & GLORY (True/False 2017; aired on POV). Kellen was selected for the Dear Producer Award in 2023 and DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 class in 2020. In 2017 and 2018, he participated in the Sundance Documentary Creative Producing Lab and Fellowship. In 2016, he was among six producers selected for Impact Partners’ Documentary Producers Fellowship. With Luke Lorentzen, Kellen co-founded the independent production company Hedgehog Films.

Yance Ford is a singular voice in documentary filmmaking. With an Oscar® nomination, a Primetime Emmy, and global acclaim, Ford’s work is known for its formal rigor and emotional resonance. His films explore history, memory, and American life through a personal and political lens. Ford’s debut, STRONG ISLAND (Netflix), premiered at Sundance in 2017 and Ford made history when he became the first openly transgender director nominated for an Academy Award. The film also won a Gotham Award, a Primetime Emmy, and a Sundance Special Jury Prize. In 2024, Ford returned with POWER (Netflix), a bold, unflinching portrait of American policing. The L.A. Times called it “urgent, astute, capacious… a tale of sound and fury, signifying everything.” Ford teaches and mentors widely, serves on festival juries around the world, is a Guggenheim and the Visiting Artistic Director of the 2026 True/False film festival.

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