DIRECTOR, CINEMATOGRAPHER

Reid Davenport makes documentaries about disability from an overtly political perspective. Reid’s first feature film, I Didn’t See You There, won the Directing Award for U.S. Documentary at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2023 Independent Spirit Awards. The film also won the Grand Jury Prize at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and the McBaine Bay Area Documentary Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival. It broadcasted nationally on POV in January 2023. The film has been hailed by critics: Nick Allen of Roger Ebert described it as “first-person poetry in captivating motion, expressed with a singular, assured artistic voice.” Vox called it a “must-see.”

His film currently in production, Life After, is being produced by Multitude Films and has been supported by the Ford Foundation, Field of Vision and the Sundance Institute. In 2020, Reid was named to DOC NYC’s “40 Filmmakers Under 40.” His short film, A Cerebral Game, won the Artistic Vision Award at the 2016 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival for “creating a visual landscape that is at once disorienting and nostalgic - and the result is so raw and compelling it’s impossible to turn away.” Along with A Cerebral Game, his short documentaries Wheelchair Diaries and RAMPED UP are distributed by New Day Films. Davenport received a Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Film & Video from Stanford University in 2016.

PRODUCER

Keith Wilson is a producer, director and artist based in Athens, Georgia whose films have screened at Sundance, the Berlinale, Hot Docs, the U.S. National Gallery of Art, documenta14, and the Museum of Modern Art. He is the producer of the feature documentaries I Didn’t See You There (2022) and Joonam (2023), both of which premiered in the US Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival. His live cinema performance, Selling Frank Moore (2023), premiered at the Camden International Film Festival and will tour in 2024 including the Museum of Moving Image and the International Documentary Association's Getting Real conference. His short film The Tree screened at MoMA's 2019 Doc Fortnight program, DOC NYC, and was exhibited as a storefront installation at Artist Television Access in San Francisco. He was the producer, director of photography and editor of Water Makes Us Wet, a documentary feature directed by Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens that premiered at documenta14 in Kassel, Germany. He was Director of Photography and Producer for INTERIOR. LEATHER BAR., which premiered at Sundance and was released theatrically by Strand Releasing. He is a Board Member of the Documentary Producer's Alliance and a member-owner of New Day Films, a 40 year-old documentary distribution cooperative. Keith is an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia, has an MFA in film production from the Radio-TV-Film Department at UT-Austin, and grew up on a cul-de-sac in suburban Atlanta

EDITOR

Todd Chandler is a filmmaker and artist whose work has been featured at True/False, IDFA, Doclisboa, the Hammer Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and Mass MoCA. His documentary, Bulletproof, screened at over two dozen festivals worldwide, and was called “dreamlike and startling,” by the New York Times and “a quiet gut punch of a film,” by the Guardian. His work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, Field of Vision, International Documentary Association, Doc Society, and ITVS, among others. He was one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, a fellow at the Sundance Non-Fiction Director’s Residency, and a Points North Fellow. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Creative Capital award, and the Hot Docs International Emerging Filmmaker award.

He was the lead editor and a human rights video advocacy trainer at WITNESS, edited the Academy Award nominated documentary short film In the Absence, directed by Seung-jun Yi, and Reid Davenport’s feature documentary I Didn’t See You There, which won Davenport 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. He teaches in the Department of Film and Media Arts at Temple University.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Alysa Nahmias is a filmmaker and founder of AJNA Films. Her work has been exhibited at film festivals and museums including the Venice Biennale, Sundance, LACMA, and the ICA London, and it is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Alysa's directing credits include the Emmy-winning Art & Krimes by Krimes (2022, MTV Documentary Films and Paramount+), The New Bauhaus (2019), and the Spirit Award-winning Unfinished Spaces (co-directed with Benjamin Murray, 2011, Netflix and PBS). As a producer, her work includes the 2023 Emmy-winning documentary Wildcat directed by Melissa Lesh and Trevor Frost for Amazon Studios, the Oscars-shortlisted and Sundance Jury Award-winning Unrest (2017, Netflix, PBS), and Nancy Buirski's acclaimed Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq (2013, PBS). She also produced the scripted feature No Light and No Land Anywhere directed by Amber Sealey, executive produced Reid Davenport's acclaimed I Didn’t See You There (2022) and Mariam Ghani's What We Left Unfinished (2019), and was a consulting producer on Alison O'Daniel's The Tuba Thieves (2023). Alysa is a co-founder of FWD-Doc as an ally who is committed to advocating for disability rights and inclusion, and she is a member of the Documentary Producers Alliance (DPA) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Alysa lives in Los Angeles, California with her family and an elderly cat who’s still frisky.

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

Sasha Leitmann is a documentary filmmaker based in the Bay Area. Sasha was the Co-Producer for The Big Scary “S” Word, a documentary directed by Yael Bridge about the history and resurgence of socialism in American politics. She has edited union campaign videos for Time of Day Media and previously worked as Production Coordinator at Robert Reich’s Inequality Media, where she coordinated video shoots, conducted research, and managed the production line for videos about the American public policy and the economy. She graduated with a BA in Art History from Reed College.