Filmmakers
David Osit
Director
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
Producer
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
Producer
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
Composer
TIM HECKER (Composer) is a Canadian electronic musician, composer, and sound artist. Beyond his solo work, Hecker has composed soundtracks for Brandon Cronenberg's Infinity Pool and collaborated with artists such as Ben Frost and Daniel Lopatin, and Oneohtrix Point Never. Hecker holds a PhD in urban noise and has lectured on sound culture at McGill University.
