is an award-winning filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist. Raised in Southwest Florida and based in New York City, Wortzel specifically attends to sites and stories systematically erased or ignored from these regions’ histories. Her films have screened at MoMA DocFortnight, CPH:DOX, True/False, DOC NYC, BAMcinemaFest, San Francisco International, New Orleans Film Festival, Wexner Center for the Arts, and Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her expanded cinematic work has recently been exhibited at the New Museum, The International Center for Photography, and The Kitchen. Wortzel is a recipient of a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2023 MacDowell Fellowship, 2020 Oolite Arts Ellies Award, and 2017 NYFA Fellowship. RIVER OF GRASS is her first feature documentary. The film has received institutional support from Sundance, Ford Foundation, Field of Vision, Doc Society, Chicken & Egg Pictures, and Sandbox Films. Her short films include HOW TO CARRY WATER (2023), an IDA Awards nominee for best short documentary and currently streaming on Criterion Channel; THIS IS AN ADDRESS (2020) distributed by Field of Vision; and HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARSHA! (2018; co-director Tourmaline) which won special mention at Outfest. Her artwork is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Studio Museum of Harlem, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, and Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places. She has been featured in The New York Times, Artforum, and Art in America.

is a nonfiction producer who has been working in documentary film for the past decade. She most recently produced SEEDS (Sundance 2025), A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY (True/False 2024), and LIGHT OF THE SETTING SUN (Full Frame 2024), which is a co-production of ITVS and Independent Lens. Varga co-produced THE STROLL (Sundance 2023, HBO), winner of the Sundance jury award and a Peabody. She produced Bulletproof (SXSW 2020) and the critically acclaimed documentary THE HOTTEST AUGUST (True/False 2019) both of which are distributed by PBS Independent Lens and Grasshopper Film. She co-produced the award-winning and Oscar shortlisted film CAMERAPERSON (Sundance 2016). She has also produced a number of programs for television such as PBS Art21 series. Varga was a 2016-2017 Sundance Creative Producing Fellow and was selected in DOC NYC’s inaugural “40 under 40” class. She’s been an advisor for Sundance, a mentor for emerging filmmakers, and a consultant.

is a Director of Photography from Miami, Florida whose cinematography includes YOU WERE MY FIRST BOYFRIEND (SXSW 2023), IT’S ONLY LIFE AFTER ALL (Sundance 2023), and HOW TO CARRY WATER (CPH:DOX 2023). Their work has been showcased at Sundance, Tribeca, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Frameline, and the Whitney Biennial. Bennett has worked with directors Spike Lee, Arthur Jafa, Deb Shoval, and Andrew Dosunmu. Bennett has also worked alongside master cinematographers such as Lisa Rinzler, Bradford Young ASC, and Michael McDonough ASC as a camera operator, gaffer and key grip. Bennett is a recipient of the ASC Vision Mentorship Award and Artists in Residence in the Everglades (AIRIE) Fellowship.

is an award-winning video editor born and raised in Puerto Rico, focusing on vérité and archival heavy, character-driven stories. She was an editor on the nine part HBO documentary series THE VOW and worked on three seasons of the Emmy-award winning series VICE on HBO. Among others, she edited feature length documentaries RESIDENTE (SXSW, 2017) and verite driven HOMEROOM (Sundance, 2021), for which she received Sundance’s 2021 Inaugural Jonathan Oppenheim Documentary Editing Award. She is a 2022 nominee for Cinema Eye Honors’ Outstanding Achievement in Editing award and for IDA’s Best Editing Award. She was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Picture Editing in 2016.

is an Emmy-nominated producer who specializes in nonfiction, archive-based films. Working between Miami, FL and New York, NY, her work has been featured on HBO, PBS, WORLD Channel, Field of Vision, NYT Op-Docs, YouTube Originals, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. She produced John Maggio’s feature documentary, PAUL ANKA: HIS WAY (Toronto 2024) and the News & Doc Emmy-nominated A CHOICE OF WEAPONS: INSPIRED BY GORDON PARKS (Tribeca 2021, HBO). She has contributed archival research to productions LONG TIME SUN (SXSW, 2024) and KISS THE FUTURE (Berlinale, 2023). She has an MFA in Documentary Film from Wake Forest University and was a 2023-2024 Impact Partners Producing Fellow.

is a Miami-based LatinX documentary filmmaker. Her directing and producing debut, MONICA & DAVID, broadcast on HBO, won Tribeca’s Jury Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award. Her latest documentary, PAPER CHILDREN, premiered worldwide with YouTube Originals, with support from Sundance Institute, Perspective Fund, Knight Foundation and Chicken & Egg Pictures. Ali has pitched at Hot Docs:Forum, Good Pitch, CPH:Forum, and Tribeca All Access. Her work has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, Newsweek, Univision’s Primer Impacto, The Huffington Post, CNN en Español, LATimes, Latina Magazine, etc. She is currently developing a film about the human brain.  

is a Two-Spirit Poet, filmmaker, and environmentalist from the Otter Clan of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida. Cypress serves as the head of Love The Everglades Movement, an organization devoted to the development of platforms and initiatives for environmental protection, and cultural preservation.

was editor on Oscar and double Sundance Audience Award-winning, NAVALNY (2022), and SUGARCANE (2024), which won the Sundance Directing Award. She co-edited CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (dir. Werner Herzog) with partner Joe Bini. Supervising and Consulting Editor credits include JOONAM (Sundance 2023), BLACK BOX DIARIES (Sundance 2024), and A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY (True/False 2024). She has been an advisor at seven Sundance labs since 2017, a 2018 fellow at the Sundance Nonfiction Directors Residency, and a 2020 Sundance Interdisciplinary Fellow. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

edited the Academy Award nominated documentary short IN THE ABSENCE, directed by Seung-jun Yi, and Reid Davenport’s feature documentary I DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE, which won the U.S. Documentary Directing Award at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and the Truer than Fiction Independent Spirit Award. He frequently works as a consulting editor, most recently on the films SUGARCANE and MILISUTHANDO.