DAVID OSIT (Director, Producer, Editor, Cinematographer) is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning director, editor and composer. His most recent film MAYOR won a Peabody and Emmy Award, was a New York Times Critics’ Pick, and holds a 100% Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. David directed, produced, edited, filmed and composed the feature documentary THANK YOU FOR PLAYING, which broadcast on POV in 2016, and was nominated for three Emmy awards, winning for Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary. He also edited and produced OFF FRAME, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and Berlinale in 2016, and he edited, produced and composed NO MAN’S LAND, which premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and broadcast on PBS Independent Lens in 2018. David’s feature directorial debut, BUILDING BABEL, premiered at True/False in 2012 and broadcast as the series premiere of PBS’s America Reframed in 2013. His work as an editor and consulting editor includes PROCESSION (Netflix), CRIME + PUNISHMENT (Hulu) and THE VOW (HBO). He holds a BA in Middle Eastern and North African Studies from the University of Michigan as a Wallenberg Fellow and studied Refugee Law at the American University in Cairo.
Kellen Quinn is a twice Oscar-nominated producer whose credits include Garrett Bradley's TIME (Oscar nominated; Sundance 2020 winner of the Directing Award, US Documentary Competition), Luke Lorentzen's A STILL SMALL VOICE (shortlisted for Documentary Feature Oscar; Sundance 2023 winner of the Directing Award, US Documentary Competition), Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie's SUGARCANE (Oscar nominated; Sundance 2024 winner of the Directing Award, US Documentary Competition), Robie Flores's THE IN BETWEEN (SXSW 2024), Lorentzen's MIDNIGHT FAMILY (shortlisted for Documentary Feature Oscar; Sundance 2019 winner of Special Jury Award for Cinematography, US Documentary Competition), Daniel Hymanson’s SO LATE SO SOON (True/False 2020) and Viktor Jakovleski's BRIMSTONE & GLORY (True/False 2017; aired on POV). Kellen received Doc10's Vanguard Award in 2025, was selected for the Dear Producer Award in 2023 and DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 class in 2020. In 2017 and 2018, he participated in the Sundance Documentary Creative Producing Lab and Fellowship. In 2016, he was among six producers selected for Impact Partners’ Documentary Producers Fellowship. He runs the production company Hedgehog Films with Luke Lorentzen.
Jamie Gonçalves is a producer of fiction and nonfiction, his work includes Nathan Silver’s CAROL & JOY (Telluride & NYFF 2025), Juan Pablo González’s Gotham and Cinema Eye nominated DOS ESTACIONES (Sundance 2022 Special Jury Award, Criterion), CABALLERANGO (IDFA 2018, Grasshopper) and LAS NUBES (IFFR 2017). Jamie produced Nathan Truesdell’s shorts BALLOONFEST (preserved at the National Library of Congress) and THE WATER SLIDE—the most watched films on The Atlantic; and Nick Berardini’s KILLING THEM SAFELY (Tribeca 2015, IFC). He has been a Sundance Institute Producing Fellow and Advisor, Dear Producer Fellow, Impact Partners Producing Fellow, and a Creative Capital Fellow. In 2023, he was one of Variety’s “10 Producers to Watch.”
Tim Hecker is a Canadian electronic musician and sound artist known for his immersive, atmospheric compositions that blend ambient, noise, and experimental music. He began releasing music in the early 2000s and gained critical acclaim with albums like Harmony in Ultraviolet (2006), Ravedeath, 1972 (2011), and Virgins (2013). His work often explores the emotional potential of distortion, dissonance, and sonic decay. In addition to studio albums, Hecker has composed for film and TV and collaborated with artists like Arca and Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never). He currently lives and works in Montreal.
MTV Documentary Films
In just under seven years, MTV Documentary Films has partnered with high-profile filmmakers to produce impactful and timely stories, earning critical acclaim and prestigious accolades. The company has received seven Oscar® nominations, 15 Oscar® shortlists, two Peabody® Awards, 12 Emmy® nominations, and four Emmy® wins. Most recently, MTV Documentary Films earned two Academy Award nominations for the chilling documentary feature BLACK BOX DIARIES, which also secured the company’s first BAFTA nomination and second Peabody Award, and the compelling short I AM READY, WARDEN. Additionally, MTV Documentary Films has released powerful works including Maite Alberdi’s profoundly moving love story THE ETERNAL MEMORY, which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature and won numerous accolades, including a Goya Award; THE ABCs OF BOOK BANNING, which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Short; Ondi Timoner’s LAST FLIGHT HOME, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and a Writers Guild Award; ANASTASIA, ANGOLA, DO YOU HEAR US? VOICES FROM A PLANTATION PRISON, and AS FAR AS THEY CAN RUN, all shortlisted for Best Documentary Short; ASCENSION, which received a Best Documentary Feature nomination and a Directors Guild of America nomination, an Independent Spirit Award nomination, and five Cinema Eye Honors. MTV Documentary Films debuted with the Oscar® nominated short ST. LOUIS SUPERMAN, followed by 76 DAYS, a harrowing look at the pandemic’s frontlines in Wuhan, which won a Peabody Award, an Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, and was Oscar-shortlisted. Other notable releases include the Oscar-nominated HUNGER WARD, Emmy-nominated FINDING YINGYING, and critically acclaimed films such as MOURNING IN LOD, DEATH WITHOUT MERCY, BEAUTIFUL SOMETHING LEFT BEHIND, AMERICAN SELFIE: ONE NATION SHOOTS ITSELF, 17 BLOCKS, A LIFE TOO SHORT, THE FIRE THAT TOOK HER and MY FATHER THE MOVER.
Sweet Relief Productions
Sweet Relief Productions was founded in 2013 by Arthur Bradford and Jennifer Ollman. Their documentary projects include the Primetime Emmy®-nominated 6 DAYS TO AIR: THE MAKING OF SOUTH PARK (Comedy Central), HOW'S YOUR NEWS? (HBO/PBS/MTV), TO BE DESTROYED (MSNBC), and ¡CASA BONITA MI AMOR! (Paramount+) which premiered at the Tribeca (Audience Award winner) and Telluride film festivals.
