Julie Goldman

PRODUCER

Julie Goldman founded Motto Pictures in 2009. She is an Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning producer and executive producer of documentary feature films and series. She produced Steve James’ Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated Abacus: Small Enough To Jail, and The Final Year, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, was released by Magnolia Pictures and broadcast on HBO. Julie is producer of Life, Animated and executive producer of Weiner, both of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Life, Animated won the US Documentary Directing Award, was nominated for the 2017 Best Documentary Feature Academy Award, and won three Emmys, including the award for Best Documentary in 2018. Weiner won the US Documentary Grand Jury Prize and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. Julie executive produced the Emmy-nominated Facebook series Humans of New York, Emmy Award-winning, Oscar-shortlisted Best of Enemies, and several Emmy-nominated films: 3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets, The Kill Team, Art and Craft and 1971. Julie also produced and executive produced Emmy Award-winning The Music of Strangers, Emmy Award-winning Solitary, Enlighten Us, Southwest of Salem, Gideon’s Army, Manhunt, God Loves Uganda, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry and Buck. Julie received the Amazon Studios Sundance Institute Producer's Award and the Cinereach Producer’s Award.

Chris Clements

PRODUCER

Christopher Clements is an Emmy Award-winning  and Peabody Award-winning producer and partner at Motto Pictures. He executive produced Steve James’ Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated Abacus: Small Enough to Jail; Weiner, which won the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and was shortlisted for the 2017 Academy Award; and two Sundance 2018 premieres, Inventing Tomorrow and The Cleaners.  Chris co-produced Life, Animated, which won the US Documentary Directing Award at Sundance, was nominated for the 2017 Best Documentary Feature Academy Award, and won three Emmys, including the award for Best Documentary in 2018.  He executive produced Shadowman, When God Sleeps, The Family I Had, Kristi Jacobson’s Emmy Award-winning Solitary, Deborah Esquenazi’s Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning Southwest Of Salem and the CNN Films feature, Enlighten Us. Christopher produced Chicken People, released by Samuel Goldwyn Films, co-produced Ivy Meeropol’s Indian Point, and co-executive produced Alison Klayman’s film The 100 Years Show and The Yes Men Are Revolting. He also executive produced Art and Craft, shortlisted for the 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Recent films include Alison Klayman’s Take Your Pills which premiered at SXSW 2018 and Love, Gilda, the opening night film of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.  Christopher is a member of the Producers Guild of America (PGA), British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS)

Carolyn Hepburn

PRODUCER

Carolyn Hepburn is an Emmy Award-winning producer who joined Motto Pictures in 2010. She executive produced recent Sundance Film Festival premiere Inventing Tomorrow and Tribeca Film Festival premieres Shadowman and The Family I Had. Carolyn co-produced Life, Animated, which won the US Documentary Directing Award at Sundance, was nominated for the 2017 Best Documentary Feature Academy Award, and won three Emmys, including the award for Best Documentary in 2018.  She executive produced Weiner, winner of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize and shortlisted for the 2017 Academy Award. Carolyn co-produced Chicken People and Indian Point and produced 3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets, winner of the 2015 Sundance Special Jury Prize for Social Impact, nominated for an Emmy Award, and shortlisted for the 2016 Academy Award for Best Documentary. Carolyn also co-executive produced the short film The 100 Years Show. Carolyn executive produced Art and Craft, shortlisted for the 2015 Academy Award and Emmy nominated. She was the line producer for God Loves Uganda, shortlisted for the 2014 Academy Award, and Gideon’s Army, winner of Sundance’s Best Editing Award. Recent films include Alison Klayman’s Take Your Pills which premiered at SXSW and Love, Gilda, the opening night film of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Carolyn is a member of the Producers Guild of America (PGA), British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS).

Sheila S. Coronel

CONSULTANT

Sheila S. Coronel is director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and the Stabile Professor of Professional Practice in Investigative Journalism at Columbia University. She is currently also Dean of Academic Affairs of the Columbia Journalism School. Sheila worked for many years as a journalist in the Philippines and was a co-founder and director of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. She is the author and editor of more than a dozen books. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize.

Gabriel Goodenough

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Gabriel Goodenough began his career learning the craft of storytelling and photography while working on productions such as A Beautiful Mind, The Sopranos and Homicide: Life On The Streets. Yet his true love is non-narrative vérité filmmaking, a journey that he began while working with Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney on their hybrid fiction/documentary project K Street for HBO. Since then he has photographed and produced hundreds of hours of documentary content following subjects in the United States and abroad. Most recently Gabriel has been on assignment in Russia, Ukraine and the Middle East, producing and shooting a project about war correspondents. Gabriel graduated with a degree in film production from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. 

Jeffrey Johnson

CINEMATOGRAPHY

From the remote bat caves of Lebanon to the deserts across the Mexico/US border, Jeffrey's vérité camera work has taken him around the world to show engaging perspectives on some of the most challenging stories. His work has appeared on HBO, PBS, A&E, Netflix, the New York Times, Field of Vision, and the Atlantic. He was the Director of Photography for the two-time Academy Award winning Director, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Trish Dalton on their feature documentary, Student Athlete, following the stories of amateur athletes in the United States. And most recently lensed Tania Cypriano's, Born To Be, "a moving and fascinatingly forward-looking documentary about the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York City" (Owen Gleiberman for Variety). When he's not on assignment Jeffrey can usually be found with his surfboard in tow checking the local wave report or at home with his wife and daughter in Brooklyn.

Sam Lipman

COMPOSER

Sam Lipman is an award-winning multi-media composer in the Austin Area, where he teaches Screen Scoring at the University of Texas. Most recently Sam worked score for Richard Linklater/Cate Blanchett’s Where’d You Go Bernadette. His work on documentary Southwest Of Salem shortlisted for a 2017 Oscar© for Best Original Song In A Movie, and his Score/Design to theatrical play Matawan won the 2019 Austin Critics Table Award. He has composed works for the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, recorded with Justin Timberlake, and composed several theater scores for UT Theater & Dance Department, where he held the Composer-In-Residence position for two years. Sam’s classical works are performed internationally, his most recent premier in NYC’s Carnegie Hall. Sam is thrilled to have worked on this film, and is excited to be a featured ASCAP Spotlight Composer at this 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

Jim Choi

LOCATION SOUND

As an alumnus of the Rhode Island School of Design, Jung Choi has always brought a fine artist’s perspective to story telling. While a part of the Public Television Department at the Center for Asian American Media he produced web sites hosted on pbs.org that promoted national broadcasts of films for, by and about the Asian American Community. At The Center for Asian American Media he served as the Associate Producer for the Nationally broadcast series SEARCHING FOR ASIAN AMERICA. Other credits include, location sound department for Wayne Wang’s, THE PRINCESS OF NEBRASKA, as well as the critically acclaimed, RUSSELL SIMMONS PRESENTS BRAVE NEW VOICES. LOST AND FOUND: LEGACY OF USS LAGARTO earned him an Emmy nomination in the camera department. As one half of the partnership of K Pacific Productions he’s directed and produced intimate portraits of Artists like Beili Liu in RED THREAD and Stella Zhang in 0 VIEWPOINT for the Chinese Cultural Center. As a freelancer his clients include HBO, PBS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, NOVA, FRONTLINE, DISCOVERY CHANNEL, BLOOMBERG & TRAVEL CHANNEL.

Allana de Guzman

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

K. Allana de Guzman was born in Manila, Philippines. Currently, she lives in New York City. She attended Penn State University to initially prepare for a career in international development with a B.S. in Earth Science & Policy. She has worked on different international development projects from land rights for the indigenous populations in the uplands of the Philippines to environmental and wildlife conservation in Central Africa region with USAID in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But she found her passion in production with a focus in documentary filmmaking after working with the American Film Institute coordinating Silver Docs and as a Director for TEDxPSU. She sees compelling storytelling as a powerful tool in bringing to light the most profound issues of our time. Allana has worked on V.R. productions in partnership with POV, MIT, and Sundance; and projects for HBO and the Food Network.

Katrina de Vera

ASSISTANT EDITOR

Katrina De Vera is a documentary editor based in Austin, TX. Her recent work includes assistant editing on the feature film, Pahokee, which premiered at Sundance 2019 and assisting on the PBS Mini-series Now Hear This.

Susan Lamarca

ASSISTANT EDITOR

Susan LaMarca is an editor in Austin, TX. She has worked on films by David Gordon Green, Terrence Malick, and Wendy McColm. She edits commercials, and most recently edited Bob Byington’s 2018 feature FRANCIS FERGUSON. This is her first feature documentary project.

Davis Guggenheim

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Davis Guggenheim is a critically acclaimed, Academy AwardⓇ-winning director and producer. His work includes WAITING FOR SUPERMAN, IT MIGHT GET LOUD, and HE NAMED ME MALALA. His film, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, featuring former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, won the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2007. Davis directed multiple films for President Obama, including convention films in 2008, 2012 and 2016. Davis previously worked in television as a director and producer of the Emmy Award-winning HBO series DEADWOOD. His television directing credits also include episodes of THE SHIELD, ALIAS, 24, NYPD BLUE, and ER. In 2017, Davis founded Concordia Studio based in Venice, CA.

He currently serves as Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Nonfiction.

Jonathan Silberberg

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Jonathan Silberberg is a creative producer, showrunner, and executive producer with over twenty years of experience producing nonfiction films and series. He has worked on documentaries, feature films and series for companies including RadicalMedia, HBO, Netflix, Showtime, Imagine Entertainment, Participant Media, Sundance Channel, A&E, and Discovery. His credits include Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s Oscar and Emmy nominated feature film PARADISE LOST 3: PURGATORY for HBO, National Geographic’s hybrid series MARS, in collaboration with Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment and RadicalMedia, Nat Geo's BREAKTHROUGH, and Sundance Channel’s ICONOCLASTS. He began his career at the storied documentary company Maysles Films and worked for many years with RadicalMedia.

Jonathan currently serves as President of Nonfiction at Concordia Studio.

Nicole Stott

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Prior to joining Concordia Studio, Nicole was Head of Documentary at multiple BAFTA, Emmy and triple Academy Award winning Passion Pictures, one of the most prolific independent producers of theatrical feature documentaries in the international marketplace, with a reputation for critical and commercial success. Working alongside M.D. and veteran producer John Battsek for over thirteen years, Nicole creatively helmed the company’s slate and produced some of the most acclaimed nonfiction titles of recent years. Credits include: Academy Award and BAFTA winner SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN, Prime Time Emmy winning MANHUNT, Academy Award nominated RESTREPO, BAFTA Outstanding Debut Winner THE IMPOSTER, Netflix Original three-part series FIVE CAME BACK, HBO’s critically acclaimed THE FINAL YEAR, and Peabody Award winning LISTEN TO ME MARLON.

More recently Nicole served as Executive Producer on Netflix three-part series INSIDE BILL'S BRAIN; an anthology of five documentary films for the NYTimes OpDocs, titled FROM HERE TO HOME (including Laura Nix's 2020 Academy nominated WALK RUN CHA CHA). Nicole also Executive Produced four new feature documentary films premiered in US Competition at Sundance 2020: TIME (directed by Sundance 2020 US Documentary Best Director Garrett Bradley); Ramona Diaz's A THOUSAND CUTS; BLOODY NOSE DIRTY POCKETS directed by Bill Ross & Turner Ross, and Sundance 2020 Grand Jury Prize winning BOYS STATE (Amanda McBaine/Jesse Moss).

Nicole currently serves as Executive Vice President of Nonfiction at Concordia Studio.

Laurene Powell Jobs

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Laurene Powell Jobs is founder and president of Emerson Collective, which deploys a wide range of tools – from impact investing to philanthropy to advocacy—in pursuit of a more equal and just America. Emerson Collective focuses on creating systemic change in education, immigration, climate, and cancer research and treatment. 

Powell Jobs believes in supporting media and journalism as a civic institution. Emerson Collective’s work includes nonprofit publications such as ProPublica, The Marshall Project and The Texas Tribune; media companies such as Axios, Hello Sunshine and OZY Media. Emerson Collective was a founding partner of the American Journalism Project, an initiative to provide resources for local journalism outlets. 

She is co-owner of The Atlantic, Anonymous Content and Concordia Studio.

David & Linda Cornfield

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

David and Linda Cornfield are philanthropists with backgrounds in the tech industry who believe in the power of images and storytelling to spark curiosity and foster understanding.  They are executive producers of the Emmy® award winning nature documentaries Chasing Ice and Chasing Coral as well as other documentaries such as The Social Dilemma, Won’t You Be My Neighbor, Inventing Tomorrow (2019 Peabody award), The Human Element, and Dark Money (2020 duPont-Columbia University award).

Raney Aronson-Rath

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Raney Aronson-Rath is the executive producer of FRONTLINE, PBS’ flagship investigative journalism series, and is a leading voice on the future of journalism. From the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic to the true toll of Flint’s water crisis to the consequences of Amazon’s global dominance, Aronson-Rath oversees FRONTLINE’s acclaimed investigative reporting on air and online and directs the series’ editorial vision — executive producing more than 20 in-depth documentaries each year on critical issues facing the country and the world. FRONTLINE has won every major award in broadcast journalism under Aronson-Rath’s leadership, including Emmy Awards, the first Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Gold Baton to be awarded in a decade, and the series’ first-ever Peabody Institutional Award. Aronson-Rath has also expanded FRONTLINE’s theatrical documentary footprint, with the series earning its first-ever Academy Award nomination for Abacus: Small Enough to Jail in 2018 and its second in 2020 for FOR SAMA.

The 2019 Hearst Digital Media Lecturer at Columbia Journalism School, Aronson-Rath has spoken on journalism and filmmaking at the Skoll World Forum, the TV Next Summit, the Power of Narrative Journalism Conference, and at universities including Stanford, UC Berkeley, NYU and MIT. She is a member of the Board of Visitors for Columbia University’s journalism school, and serves on the Advisory Board of Columbia Global Reports.

Aronson-Rath joined FRONTLINE’s staff as a senior producer in 2007 after producing notable FRONTLINE documentaries including NEWS WAR, THE LAST ABORTION CLINIC, THE JESUS FACTOR, LAW & DISORDER, and POST MORTEM. She was named deputy executive producer by the series’ founder, David Fanning, in 2012, and then became executive producer in 2015.

Before FRONTLINE, Aronson-Rath worked at ABC News and The Wall Street Journal. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and her master’s from Columbia Journalism School.