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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.

Matt Wolf is a filmmaker in New York. His award-winning documentaries have played widely in festivals and have been distributed worldwide in theaters and on television. Matt’s acclaimed two-part HBO film PEE-WEE AS HIMSELF about the artist and performer Paul Reubens premiered opening night of Sundance 2025, won a Gotham Award, and is nominated for 5 Primetime Emmy Awards, including Best Documentary and Best Director. Matt’s feature documentaries include WILD COMBINATION about the cult cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell, TEENAGE about early youth culture and the birth of teenagers, RECORDER about the activist Marion Stokes, who secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years, and SPACESHIP EARTH about Biosphere 2, a controversial experiment where 8 people lived quarantined inside a replica of the planet. Matt produced the Emmy-nominated film THE STROLL about the history of New York’s Meatpacking District from the perspective of transgender sex workers. The film won numerous awards including a Special Jury Prize at Sundance and a Peabody. Matt has made a number of short films about artists and queer history including Bayard & Me on the civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, HBO’s It’s Me, Hilary about the Eloise illustrator Hilary Knight, I Remember about the artist Joe Brainard, The Face of AIDS about a notorious 1992 Benetton advertisement, and Another Hayride about the self-help guru Louise Hay, which was released by the New York Times’ Op-Docs and PBS’ POV series. The Criterion Channel recently presented a survey of Matt’s films. In addition to filmmaking, Matt is a writer. His artist book Input compiles hundreds of images from an enormous television archive and he publishes on Substack. Matt also organizes film screenings and public events, including the forthcoming series Paul Reubens Selects at BAM, and as a Curator of Film for the 2019 Whitney Biennial. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

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