Pamela Cohn is a New York-based independent media producer, freelance writer, programmer and documentary consultant, and writes a well-regarded blog on nonfiction cinema called Still in Motion. Film credits include producing and shooting Lisandro Perez-Rey's La Fabri_K: The Cuban Hip Hop Factory (2003), and producing, directing and shooting The Kingdom Just West of Midnight (2005) and Riding Code 3: EMS in Nigeria (2007). In 2008, she programmed the first ever documentary symposium in Dubai, UAE called Documentary Voices: Pulling Focus, a small gathering of American, Iranian and Gulf Region filmmakers. Current projects include curating a program of American nonfiction shorts and features for the 2010 DocPoint Film Festival in Helsinki, Finland; Outreach Producer for Kimberly Reed's film Prodigal Sons; writing pithy stories for the Nat Nast men's fashion line; and completing a book on international female experimental and nonfiction film and video makers. She writes on film for Hammer to Nail, FILMMAKER, the International Documentary Association and DOX. She could spend the rest of her life attending film festivals.

Ingrid Kopp is director of Shooting People in the US – an international networking community for independent filmmakers. She began her career in the Documentaries department at Channel 4 Television in the UK. While there she worked across original commissions and documentary acquisitions and ran a series of workshops for emerging filmmakers. She moved to New York in 2004 to work as an associate producer for a number of independent production companies before taking her current post at Shooting People. She writes about film and technology for various publications and teaches digital boot-camp workshops for filmmakers. She has also worked as an events producer for the BRITDOC festival in the UK and as a documentary programming consultant. Ingrid is endlessly fascinated by old technology and wrote her Masters thesis on late nineteenth century electricity.

Jody Lee Lipes, Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces 2009, lensed the narrative feature Afterschool, directed by Antonio Campos (Cannes '08), the documentary feature Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, directed by Matt Wolf (Berlinale '08), and the forthcoming narrative Untitled Banks Griffin Project. His first feature length documentary Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same (2009), premiered at SXSW, won a Special Jury Prize at Sarasota, played the prestigious Hot Docs film festival in Toronto, and screened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's BAMcinemaFEST. Jody just completed directing and shooting his first featurette, a narrative adaptation of the Jerome Robbins ballet NY Export: Opus Jazz, danced by the New York City Ballet, and airing nationally on PBS in Spring 2010.

Jesse Scolaro graduated from SUNY Purchase film conservatory in 1997 and spent the next few years working his way up the production ranks, while learning all facets of filmmaking. In 2000, he co-founded The 7th Floor with longtime friend and colleague, Allen Bain. Since then, Scolaro has produced 20 feature films and has received numerous accolades including a Producer to Watch nomination at the 2003 Independent Spirit Awards for his Sundance award-winning Manito and a nomination for the John Cassavetes Award at the 2006 Independent Spirit Awards for ROOM, which premiered at the Sundance and Cannes film festivals. Jesse resides in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife whom he met on a film set, and their newborn son, Cassavetes Scolaro.

Bill Woods ran Staten Island’s first weekly independent film series, under its two incarnations (known as Independent Film Night at the Muddy Cup and FilmFest Reloaded respectively) ran for seven years. Bill was named as a part of the 2008 NY Culturazzi by New York Magazine and recently work as the film curator at the 21st Century Happenings: SUPERNOVAS! Warhol Superstars event at the Chelsea Hotel. Currently, he serves as the Internet host, MC and curator for the New Filmmakers series at Anthology Film Archives. Bill resides in wilds of St.George in Staten Island.