Alyssa Bolsey graduated Cum Laude from San Diego State University with a degree in Television, Film and New Media, with an emphasis on directing. She spent the next two years working at Creative Artists Agency, starting in the mailroom. Alyssa left CAA to direct a feature documentary about her great-grandfather, Jacques Bolsey, the inventor of the iconic Bolex motion picture camera. "Beyond the Bolex" made its World Premiere at DOC NYC in 2018 to strong reviews, and has gone on to screen around the world. In 2019, Alyssa was awarded the Emerging Filmmaker Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival, and Best Feature Documentary at the Dallas Videofest. In 2020, she garnered the prestigious Jim Ewing Young Director's Award at the Port Townsend Film Festival. And in January 2021, the highly esteemed American Library Association named "Beyond the Bolex" as one of the top 12 recommended films in 2021 for libraries to add to their collections.

Nicolas Wadimoff was born in 1964 in Geneva and is a Swiss director, documentary filmmaker and producer. In 1988 he graduated from UQAM (Université du Québec a Montreal) in communications with a specialization in cinema. Nicolas made his first documentary in 1990. He worked as a film director at Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) and in 2003 founded Akka Films, which is devoted to the development of fiction films and production of documentaries. He has directed more than 20 films, both fiction and documentaries, among them the multi awarded CLANDESTINS (1997), AISHEEN, STILL ALIVE IN GAZA (2010), OPERATION LIBERTAD (2012), SPARTIATES (2014), JEAN ZIEGLER, THE OPTIMISM OF WILLPOWER (2016) and THE APOLLO OF GAZA (2018) which have been shown at major international film festivals such as Berlinale, Festival del film Locarno, Canne’s Director’s Fortnight, etc. Since June 2019, he has been the director of the film department at the Haute École d'Art et de Design de Genève.

Sarah George started her filmmaking career as an intern on the Warner Bros. feature DISCLOSURE the summer after she graduated from Georgetown with a degree in International Relations. She made her directorial debut with the feature doc CATCHING OUT which had a limited theatrical release, aired on the Sundance Channel and is currently streaming on Amazon. She has since made two short docs: PAULINE AND IRJA, a portrait of two octogenarian activists who take to the streets to promote peace in the wake of 9/11, and DWAYNE'S PHOTO, a love story about film and family. Sarah has over two decades of experience working in various capacities on feature films, television series, commercials and music videos. Her recent producing credits include the docuseries HEIST and WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS for Netflix, DEAR… for Apple TV and SHUT UP & DRIBBLE for Showtime.

Tchavdar Georgiev is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and a member of ACE, American Cinema Editors. He co-directed and edited the twice Emmy-nominated “The Desert of Forbidden Art,” (PBS Independent Lens). He edited the twice Emmy-nominated “Valentine Road,” (Sundance / HBO). He wrote, co-produced and edited the award-winning “Off The Rails,” (DocNYC, Hot Docs / Sundance TV). He wrote and produced the award-winning “Mr. Toilet: The World’s #2 Man” (Hot Docs, DocNYC), edited the award-winning “Finders Keepers,” (Sundance / Netflix), One Lucky Elephant,” (OWN Network) “Skid Row Marathon,” “The American Meme,” (Tribeca, Hot Docs, Netflix Original) and “Belly Of The Beast,” (PBS Independent Lens). He wrote and edited on “Larry Flynt For President,” (Tribeca, Hot Docs) and “Served Like A Girl,” (SXSW / PBS Independent Lens).

Joseph Areddy studied film at NYU/TISH and has recently served as Director of Photography on the narrative features The Fam by Fred Baillif (Winner 2021 Berlin 14+), Ivan Gallatin by Pablo Toledo Matin (in post) as well as the documentaries Spartans by Nicolas Wadimoff (Winner Amdocs, Palm Springs 2015 - John Drew Verite Award), I Didn’t See You by Francois Kohler (2021 Release), and Ladies by Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond (Locarno 2018)