Alexandria Bombach

Award-Winning Director, Cinematographer & Editor

DocLands 2023 Opening Night film with director Alexandria Bombach

Ben Proudfoot

Oscar-Winning Filmmaker, Entrepreneur & Founder of Breakwater Studios

Brian Koppelman

Co-Creator & Executive Producer of Showtime's "Billions;" Known for "The Moment with Brian Koppelman" Podcast

Jeffrey Brown

Independent Filmmaker at Big Day Pictures

Christopher Cassel

Primetime Emmy Award-Winning Director & Writer

Sam Lipman-Stern

Documentary Filmmaker, Producer & Cinematographer; Creator of HBO's "Telemarketers"

Docuseries ‘Telemarketers’ dives deep into world of call centers

Chuck Rose

Founder, Director & Programmer of Arthouse Film Festival

Jamila Wignot

Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker & Director

Haile Gerima

Ethiopian Filmmaker & Film Professor at Howard University

Chike Ozah

Film Director

Coodie Simmons

Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Cinematographer & Comedian

Alex Holder

Award-Winning Producer, Founder & Managing Director of AJH Films

James LeBrecht

Filmmaker, Sound Designer & Disability Rights Activist; Director of the Award-Winning Documentary 'Crip Camp'

Feras Fayyad

Syrian Film Director, Producer, Writer, Editor and Cinematographer, Best Known for "Last Men in Aleppo"

Leslie Iwerks

CEO and Creative Director of Iwerks & Co.

Asher Goldstein

Producer, Critic & Award-Winning Filmmaker; Best Known for "Just Mercy"

Nina Krstic

Award Winning Director & Producer

Jason Hehir

Director, Producer & Writer

Kevin Armstrong

Journalist & Executive Producer of "Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez"

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Japanese Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter & Editor Known for "Like Father, Like Son" and "Shoplifters"

Alma Har'el

Award-Winning Director & Founder of Free the Bid Free the Work

Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Award-Winning Director & Documentary Filmmaker Best Known for "Free Solo"

Alison Chernick

Grammy Nominated Film Director

Nick Vallelonga

Academy Award-Winning Writer & Producer; Known for "Green Book"

Brian Hayes Currie

Award-Winning Writer, Producer & Actor; Known for "Green Book"

Charles B. Wessler

Academy Award-Winning Producer; Known for "Green Book"

Jim Burke

Academy Award-Winning Producer; Known for "Green Book" and "The Descendants"

Bing Liu

Chicago Based Documentarian Best Known for "Minding the Gap"

dream hampton

Cultural Critic, Award-Winning Filmmaker & Executive Producer of "Surviving R.Kelly"

Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Academy Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker & World-Renowned Photographer; Directors of "Meru" & "Free Solo"