César Martínez Barba is a San Antonio, TX born filmmaker and editor living in NYC. He is a graduate of Occidental College. César has been selected as a Sundance Institute 2020 Art of Editing Fellow, a 2022 North Star Fellow at the Points North Institute, the Fall 2018 Social Justice Filmmaker Fellow at the Jacob Burns Film Center, a 2018 NeXt Doc Fellow, and is a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective. His editorial work has appeared on the Criterion Collection, BET, ABC, and at festivals such as HotDocs, SFFILM, and Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. His films have been featured on POV and The New Yorker.

Emma Warner is the Coordinator for the Artist Accelerator program at Sundance Institute, where she works on artist fellowships and industry innovation initiatives. Prior to joining Sundance, she worked for a number of film organizations, including the Atlanta Film Society, UTA, and Film at Lincoln Center. She attended Barnard College of Columbia University and is currently based in Atlanta, GA, where she lives with her cat, Harry.

Charles Frank is a director and founding partner of Voyager, a production company that tells stories ranging from 30 seconds to 90 minutes for agencies, brands, and audiences everywhere. His directing work has reached millions of people online, been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Short of the Week, and received numerous Vimeo Staff Picks. His debut feature doc, “Somewhere With No Bridges,” heralded as “a celebration of life like you’ve never seen,” won the Audience Award at Salem Film Festival 2020 and is available to stream everywhere. In the age of Instagram, influencers, and content creators, Charles’ empathetic and heart-filled portraits of real people feel more prescient than ever. Through all of his work, he strives to connect audiences to the subjects on screen, but also to one another.

Emilie Beck (1991) is both a fiction- and a documentary director, graduated from film school in Norway with a bachelor in documentary directing and a masters in fiction in 2020. Her work focuses on strong female characters and the causes she is most passionate about, women’s rights and other grey zone issues.

Last year she premiered on Netflix, co-directing the film "Royalteen", writing and directing episodes of the young adult series "VGS" (short for high school) for the Norwegian broadcaster NRK and the feature documentary "No place like home". She is currently developing her own series “Escaping Bolivia” with TV2 Norway, and other fiction-projects, and works as a commercial director for the company behind "Troll", Motion Blur.

Emilie has had several of her shortfilms at NFFTY throughout the years, and won the audience award in 2015 with her film "The routine".

Amy Lapides graduated from Vassar College with a BA in Psychology and Philosophy of the Arts. As a fine artist and art director with a background in education and youth mentorship, she's passionate about helping young people navigate early adulthood and establish their creative careers. After joining GFS in 2020, she now works with alumni and emerging professionals in LA and NYC by matching them with ongoing creative opportunities. Amy's proud to serve the next generation of great storytellers and watch dreams come to life!

Julián David Loaiza Pineda is a visual anthropology filmmaker from Colombia. He currently teaches in the Master of Visual Anthropology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He experiments with the video camera as a means of research and representation. Through an intimate approach, he tries to discover the simple, but at the same time, the spectacular in people.