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Nancy Abraham

Nancy Abraham, Vice President of Documentary Programming for Home Box Office, oversees development and production of HBO Documentary Films and Cinemax Reel Life programs. Programming she has supervised has received many awards including Primetime Emmy Awards, News and Documentary Emmy ... More...

Andy Abrahams Wilson

Andy Abrahams Wilson was born on November 20, 1963 and grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. He received an MA from USC in film and cultural anthropology, and is an Emmy-nominated producer/director of creative non-fiction films. Credits include the HBO ... More...

Rick Allen

Rick Allen has run successful companies in nearly every form of media, and helped to grow some of the country’s most prestigious brands. Allen is the CEO of SnagFilms, a new digital distribution company formed with AOL Vice-Chairman Ted Leonsis ... More...

Aggie Alvez

Aggie Alvez is Director of Communications for the Montgomery County, Maryland public schools, the largest and most diverse school system in Maryland and the 16th largest district in the nation. Serving in this position since 1999, Ms. Alvez has been ... More...

Phie Ambo

Born 1973, Denmark. Graduated in documentary film directing at the National Film School of Denmark, 1999. Co-directed with Sami Saif the documentary "Family" (2001), winner of the Joris Ivens Award, IDFA Amsterdam. More...

Daniel Anker

Daniel Anker is a documentary producer whose credits include Scottsboro: An American Tragedy, which received an Oscar nomination and an Emmy Award. Anker also produced Music From The Inside Out, which premiered at SILVERDOCS, and Imaginary Witness: Hollywood And The ... More...

Nathalie Applewhite

Nathalie Applewhite is the associate director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit journalism organization that seeks to increase international reporting in the American media. Before joining the Pulitzer Center, Applewhite worked on documentary, educational, political and commercial ... More...

Gonzalo Arijon

Gonzalo Arijon was born in Montevideo, Uruguay and lives in France since 1979. He's both, uruguayan and French. He studied anthropology and film-making and for the past 15 years has directed numerous documentaries. More...

Jody Arlington

PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER
Jody Arlington is a communications strategist specializing in festival, entertainment and public education PR. She has managed publicity for SILVERDOCS for the last four years and for Sundance for the last two, focusing on their 25th anniversary ... More...

Aitor Arregui

Aitor Arregi was born in 1977. In addition to getting a degree in Business Administration and Management, he also studied film at the Center for Performing Arts of Sarobe. He has worked as the co-screenwriter and co-director on the documentary ... More...

David Assmann

David Assmann was born in 1978 as the second of five children and went to school in Berlin, Heidelberg, Jerusalem, Santa Monica and Konstanz. Since 2001, he has studied film studies at the University of Mainz, a course of studies, ... More...

Mike Attie

Mike Attie graduated from Vassar College in 1999 with a B.A. in history and is currently an MFA candidate in Stanford’s Documentary Film and Video Program. For several years he worked as a production assistant and assistant editor for Academy ... More...

May Lin Au Yong

May Lin Au Yong is the director of Steadfast Films and a graduate documentary film student at Stanford University. Prior to this she was a reporter & current affairs producer for Channel News Asia, headquartered in Singapore. Her work has ... More...

Patricia Aufderheide

Patricia Aufderheide is a professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C., and the director of its Center for Social Media. She is the author of Documentary: A Very Short Introduction, The Daily Planet, and Communications ... More...

Mila Aung-Thiwn

Mila Aung-Thiwn is a Montreal-based director/producer. After completing his studies at McGill University, he learned filmmaking on the streets by working with maverick filmmaker Daniel Cross on S.P.I.T: SQUEEGEE PUNKS IN TRAFFIC. Together, they co-founded the production company EyeSteelFilm, which ... More...