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The Longer You Bleed

Ewan Waddell is a Berlin-based director whose debut feature, The Longer You Bleed, premiered at Hot Docs 2025. His style blends mixed media and experimental approaches to examine the modernity crisis. Waddell now develops his second film, exploring the therapeutic use of psychedelics in war-torn Ukraine.

Under the Flags, the Sun

Juanjo Pereira is a filmmaker, researcher and producer whose work highlights interdisciplinary research through the creation of essay films and video installations. He is dedicated to researching the Paraguayan film archive, and his projects also use the dérive to examine modern infrastructures and everyday built landscapes. He serves as the artistic director and co-founder of the Asunción International Contemporary Film Festival. He has participated and won awards at festivals and markets such as: Hot Docs Forum, IDFA Bertha Fund, ARCHÉ, among others.

The Long Road to the Director's Chair

Vibeke Løkkeberg (b. 1945) is one of Norway’s most profiled filmmakers, authors and cultural icons. Married to producer Terje Kristiansen and mother to Tonje and Marie, Løkkeberg created a unique concept of blending her personal life with her filmmaking, often working with her family. Known for groundbreaking and often controversial films, such as Løperjenten (The Story of Camila) and Hud (Skin), the director brings her uncompromising vision and storytelling prowess to this project. Løkkeberg is also a prolific novelist, with works including Leoparden (1989), Jordens skygge (1994), Purpur (2002), Brev til himmelen (2004),. Allierte (2008) and Frokost på stupet (2018). In 2005, Løkkeberg was appointed Cavalieri by the Italian President, and in 2015, Løkkeberg was the recipient of the Honorary Amanda Award for her contribution to Norwegian Cinema.

Sally!

Deborah Craig is an award-winning documentary director and producer whose films use compelling personal stories to raise awareness about the challenges and strengths of underrepresented communities. Her work has played at LGBTQ+, women’s and documentary film festivals in the U.S. and internationally. Deborah’s most recent short, “A Great Ride,” a 33-minute documentary about lesbians and aging, premiered at the Frameline LGBTQ+ Film Festival in San Francisco in 2018, was picked up for distribution by Frameline, has screened at over 50 film festivals around the globe, and has won multiple awards. “Sally” will be her first feature-length documentary. Deborah has a BA in history from Columbia University, did undergraduate work in photography at California College of the Arts, and has a Master of Public Health from San Francisco State University, where she currently teaches in the Public Health Department.

Ondine Rarey is a filmmaker, editor, and writer. Her documentary “Fools and Heroes” was a Grimme-Preis nominee (the German equivalent of an Emmy), airing on ARTE in France as well as stateside on PBS. She has edited well over a dozen documentary features and shorts, including “Now en Español” (for PBS), “A Great Ride,” “Who Will Write Our History” and, “Rebel Hearts,” an official selection at Sundance 2021. She has edited on multiple TV series, including “Keeping up with the Kardashians” and “Alien Encounters.” Ondine received a BA from UC Berkeley in History and a BFA in Documentary and Journalism from the Munich University for Television and Film in Germany. She currently resides in Southern California, where she teaches Documentary Editing at Chapman University.

Jörg Fockele is an award-winning filmmaker with a career spanning over 25 years. He has written and directed over 10 short films, four feature documentaries, and numerous music videos and PSAs. Of the awards and distinctions Jörg has received, the most important ones are retrospectives at the Goethe Institutes New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, and Mexico City, two Emmys and a special prize from the International Film Festival in Berlin. In addition, Jörg is a critically acclaimed television producer of award-winning shows such as Bravo’s “Queer Eye,” ABC ’s “Wife Swap,” the Sundance Channel’s “Big Ideas for a Small Planet” and AMC’s “Small Town Security.” He has also directed and produced shows for MTV, CBS, Oxygen, Discovery Network, PBS, Fine Living Network, and the SciFi Channel.

The Helsinki Effect

Arthur Franck is a documentary filmmaker from Helsinki. He has been making documentaries for over 15 years. He runs the production company Polygraf with producer Sandra Enkvist. His films have been selected for CPH:DOX, HotDocs, True/False, DokLeipzig, the Chicago International Film Festival, and DocsBarcelona. The Hypnotist was nominated for Best Documentary and Best Editing at the 2020 Jussi Awards in Finland and won Best Feature Film at the 2019 Tampere Film Festival. Franck was a member of the board of trustees of the 2019-2021 Docpoint Film Festival and is currently chairman of the Finnish Documentary Guild. 

Union

Stephen Maing is an Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker based in New York. His feature documentary Crime + Punishment, which he directed, filmed and edited, won a Special Jury Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary. Stephen has directed films for the New York Times, Time Magazine, The Nation, The Intercept and Field of Vision.

Brett Story is an award-winning filmmaker, geographer and writer. Her films have screened in festivals around the world, including CPH-DOX, the Viennale, SXSW, True/False, and Sheffield DocFest. Her interests across the fields of documentary and critical theory are expansive, and include experimental cinema and essay films, prisons and abolition, political geography, critical theory, racial capitalism and Marxist political economy.

Holding Liat

Brandon Kramer is a Washington, D.C.-based filmmaker and co-founder of Meridian Hill Pictures with his brother Lance. Brandon directed The First Step (Tribeca, AFI DOCS); City of Trees (Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, PBS, Netflix); and the Webby Award-winning independent documentary series The Messy Truth (CNN). Brandon is a Film Independent Fellow, a D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities Fellow, a regular collaborator with Kartemquin Films, and a teacher for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Brandon holds a BA in film and cultural anthropology from Boston University.

Flophouse America

Monica Strømdahl is an international award-winning documentary stills photographer graduated from Falmouth College of Arts. In 2019, she won the 1st prize at the Norwegian Picture of The Year, and was nominated for the Leica Oscar Barnack Award (LOBA). Monica is known for her intimate way of portraying people and their lives. She has made short films, and Flophouse America is her debut feature film.

9-Month Contract

Ketevan Vashagashvili is a documentary filmmaker based in Tbilisi. She is a Chevening alumna with an MA in Digital Documentary from the University of Sussex (UK). Her main interest lies in social and human rights issues. Ketevan has 14 years of experience working at various Georgian TV channels and online platforms, directing and producing TV documentaries and programmes.

Coexistence, My Ass!

Award-winning filmmaker Amber Fares directed Speed Sisters, Reckoning With Laughter, and We Are Ayenda, which won the 2024 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity Grand Prix for Entertainment. She co-directed Convergence: Courage Under Crisis. Fares is a Canadian of Lebanese origin based in New York.

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