Stanley Nelson is among the premier documentary filmmakers working today. His body of work has garnered every major award in the industry. He is a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, was awarded an individual Peabody Award, the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts Sciences, and received the National Medal in the Humanities from President Barack Obama. His film, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019, marking Nelson’s tenth premiere at that prestigious festival, the most of any documentary filmmaker. Two of Nelson’s recent films, Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities (2018) and The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2016), broke audience records for African American viewership on the PBS series Independent Lens. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution won the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary Film. Freedom Riders (2010, winner of three Primetime Emmy Awards) and Freedom Summer (2014, Peabody Award), both took a fresh look at critical events in the civil rights struggles of the 1960’s. Nelson’s 2003 film The Murder of Emmett Till (Sundance Special Jury Prize), about the brutal killing of a fourteen-year-old African American boy in Mississippi in 1955, helped prompt the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen the case. In 2000, Nelson co-founded Firelight Media, a non-profit company dedicated to mentoring, inspiring and training a new generation of diverse young filmmakers. Greta Schiller (Producer/Director) Greta Schiller is an internationally acclaimed documentary filmmaker and co-founder of Jezebel Productions. Since 1984 she has produced over a dozen films, unearthing lost histories of marginalized groups and writing them into the cultural narrative. Her work includes international favorites such as: Before Stonewall (1984 Emmy Award, 2019 National Film Registry), International Sweethearts of Rhythm (PBS, 1986 Best Doc, Philadelphia Film Festival), Paris Was a Woman (1995 Audience Award Winner, Berlinale), and The Man Who Drove with Mandela (PBS, 1998 Best Documentary at Berlinale). Her films have screened at the most prestigious international film festivals over the last 35 years, making her one of the most respected, longest-producing independent filmmakers of her generation. After earning her M.Ed in Science Education, Schiller’s investigations shifted to science, society, and the environment. Her last film, The Land of Azaba (2020) tells a tale of epic proportions set in an ecological reserve on the Spanish-Portuguese border. An awardee of two Fulbright Fellowships: the first ever US/UK Fulbright Arts Fellowship in Film in 1989-90, and a Global Fulbright Award in 2016, Schiller is also the recipient of a Rachel Carson Fellowship, the Townsend Harris Medal: Distinguished Alumni Award, and in 2018 she was inducted into the CCNY Alumni Hall of Fame. Greta’s films have been funded by PBS, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Suffolk County Film Commission, Eurimage, VPRO, ARTE, Channel Four UK, South African Arts Council, London Production Fund, European Media Fund and The Arts Council of England. Andrea Weiss (Producer/Director/Editor) is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and founder, with Greta Schiller, of Jezebel Productions. Her last film Bones of Contention, was a feature documentary delving into the historical memory movement in Spain and the unknown story of LGBT repression under the Franco dictatorship. Bones of Contention premiered in the 2017 Berlin Film Festival, screened on the film festival circuit around the world, and had an art-house cinema release in Spain. It won several jury and audience awards, including in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Valladolid, Spain. Her other film credits include Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story, Seed of Sarah, Paris Was a Woman, Before Stonewall, A Bit of Scarlet and International Sweethearts of Rhythm, among others. A nonfiction author as well, her books include Paris Was a Woman (Harper Collins, 1995; Counterpoint Press, 2013) which won a Lambda Literary Award, Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film (Penguin, 1992) and In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story (University of Chicago Press, 2008) which won a Publishing Triangle Award for Best Nonfiction. Her books have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Korean, Swedish, Chinese, Japanese, and Slovenian. Weiss has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, the U.S./Spain Fulbright Commission, and the D.A.A.D. Artist Program in Berlin. She holds a Ph.D. in U.S. History and is Professor of Film at the City College of New York, where she co-directs the MFA Program in Film.. Department of Justice to reopen the case. In 2000, Nelson co-founded Firelight Media, a non-profit company dedicated to mentoring, inspiring and training a new generation of diverse young filmmakers.