JULIA REICHERT Julia Reichert & Steven Bognar are the Ohio-based, Oscar®-award-winning documentary filmmakers’ work has received numerous accolades and screened at top film festivals and on HBO, PBS, and Netflix. Their most recent film, American Factory 美国工厂, debuted at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, where they earned Best Director for
SALLY ROSENTHAL Sally Rosenthal is an award-winning documentary television producer and director, focusing primarily on performing arts history. She produced the six-part PBS series Broadway: The American Musical (2004), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Series, as well as the Emmy-nominated six-part PBS series Make
PATRICK SAMMON Patrick Sammon is the Founder and President of Story Center Films, LLC. He is the Co-Director and Co-Producer, with Bennett Singer, of a documentary about the remarkable and little-known story of the LGBT activists who successfully battled the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from its list of
BENNETT SINGER Bennett Singer is an award-winning New York-based filmmaker/writer with 20 years of experience. His feature-length film Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin premiered at Sundance, was broadcast nationally on PBS. The film illuminates the life and work of Bayard Rustin, a visionary activist and mentor to Martin
TASHA VAN ZANDT Tasha Van Zandt is a documentary director, cinematographer and Emmy-nominated producer who has traveled on assignment around the globe across all seven continents. Her most recent film, After Antarctica, is a feature-length documentary that follows the life of one of National Geographic's most celebrated polar explorers. The project has
JOE WINSTON Joe Winston grew up in Chicago, and earned a B.A. in Psychology from Yale University in 1988. He was a producer on "Citizen Koch," which was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Joe co-produced, directed and co-edited the documentary feature film, "What's
KEVIN BAKER Kevin Baker is a novelist, historian, and journalist. He is the author of five novels, including Dreamland, Strivers Row, The Big Crowd, and Paradise Alley, winner of the American Book Award—and, with Danijel Zezelj, the graphic novel, Luna Park. In history, he is the author of America the Ingenious,
DAVID BLISTEIN Writer David Blistein spent 25 years as the Owner and Creative Director of a regional ad agency, after which he began writing non-fiction books and documentaries. He was a writer on the PBS documentary Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (2015) and The Gene (est. 2019), based on books
SARAH BOTSTEIN Sarah Botstein has for more than two decades produced some of the most widely-watched and acclaimed documentaries on PBS. Her work, in collaboration with directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, includes the award-winning epic ten-part series, The Vietnam War (2017), Prohibition (2011), The War (2007) and Jazz (2001).
KEN BURNS Ken Burns has been making documentary films for over forty years. Since the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including The Civil War; Baseball; Jazz; The War; The National Parks:
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