Amei Wallach is an award-winning art critic,filmmaker, and television commentator. Her critically acclaimed films,Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine and Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here, remain in international demand. In her articles, books, media appearances – and more recently in her films – Wallach has chronicled, and known, artists from Willem de Kooning and Lee Krasner to Jasper Johns and Shirin Neshat. As an art writer, she watched Robert Rauschenberg make prints in New York and paintings in Captiva, Florida. She is uniquely able to tell this story. Wallach has written or contributed to more than a dozen books and was an on-air arts commentator for the PBSMacNeil/Lehrer Newshour. Her articles have appeared in such publications as The NewYork Times Magazine, The Nation, Smithsonian, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Art in America, and ARTnews.

Andrea Miller is a producer known for feature documentaries such as Particle Fever (2013), which screened at the Telluride and Sheffield film festivals and received the National Academy of Science Prize and a Columbia Dupont award; Take My Nose . . .Please! (2017); and Joseph Pulitzer Voice of the People (2018), which aired on the PBS series American Masters. Other documentary projects include Thank You for YourService, Letters from Baghdad, Four Winters, The New Public, and Colliding Dreams. Andrea also produces fictional features. She was Executive Producer of the feature film Savage Youth, which premiered at Slamdance in 2018, and was the primary producer of Dark Matter, starring Meryl Streep, Aiden Quinn and Liu Yeh, which won the Sloan Prize at Sundance in 2007. She recently produced the film Three Birthdays with Josh Radnor, Annie Parisse and Nuala Cleary and directed by Jane Weinstock. Formerly, Andrea worked in television, producing such shows as Pee Wee’s Playhouse, Shining Time Station and Indecision ’92 (hosted by Al Franken and Roger Ailes) after many years as a television executive and in the trenches on documentary and news features.

Tal Mandil is an independent filmmaker/producer based in New York City who got her start in film while living in Chile. There she produced Más Allá de las Olas/Beyond theWaves, a four-part documentary series about blue whales in Patagonia that aired on national Chilean television in 2022. While there, she co-wrote and produced a narrative short film, Sumergido (2019), starring Daniel Antivilo and Lux Pascal. She is currently working on an NEH-funded documentary, Everything Seemed Possible, about an era change in Puerto Rico in the 1950s and ‘60s, and on the feature documentary Elie Wiesel: Soul On Fire, directed by Oren Rudavsky and co-produced by PBS AmericanMasters.

Vanessa Bergonzoli is an award-winning producer and dynamic team leader with a strong focus on achieving common goals. Proficient in multiple languages, she excels in international field production and actively promotes cross-cultural awareness in her daily practice. Drawing inspiration from her background in theater as a puppeteer and thespian, Vanessa brings a creative and collaborative perspective to her filmmaking work. She holds two Bachelor's degrees from Emerson College and a Master’s degree in Media Studies from the New School.

Rob Tinworth is a filmmaker with broad experience in independent and broadcast documentaries. He is a five-time Emmy nominee, winning in 2014 for NOVA: Manhunt Boston Bombers. Other awards include two Best Documentary honors at the Asian Television Awards, and two Cine Golden Eagles. His last feature documentary, the award-winning Broadway Idiot, followed punk band Green Day’s foray into the world of musical theater and premiered at the SXSW Film Festival. He has edited documentaries for Discovery, National Geographic and PBS.