Dempsey Rice - Director/Producer

Dempsey Rice explores themes of connection, personal story, relationship, and identity in her filmmaking. She believes that exploring pivotal moments in an individual’s life can speak to our universal human experience. Her current film, The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks, is one of 24 films selected for the Nonfiction Hotlist. Her film Daughter of Suicide (HBO) received a Cine Golden Eagle, a National Council on Family Relations Media Award and a National Mental Health Association Media Award. She is the recipient of a NY Emmy for Outstanding Teen Programming and an Aurora Gold Award for Youth Documentary as the Series Producer of IMNY (I Am New York). She was a Fellow at the Made in New York Media Center by IFP (2015-2016) where she launched The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks. Her hyper-local project, The Listening Project: Brooklyn (133 short films) aired on Brooklyn Independent Television.

To see more of Dempsey's work please visit www.dempseyrice.com

Lori Cheatle - Producer

Lori Cheatle is the founder of Hard Working Movies and the Producer or Executive Producer of over 25 award-winning feature length documentaries. Her films have screened at all the top international film festivals, in theaters and on Broadcast and Streaming platforms worldwide. Titles include the 2024 Peabody award winner NIGHT IS NOT ETERNAL (HBO, dir. Nanfu Wang); MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A. which won a Special Jury Award at Sundance, the IDA Award for Best Music Documentary and a Grierson commendation (BBC2, Netflix, Cinereach); DREAMING WALLS: Inside the Chelsea Hotel, Executive Produced by Martin Scorsese (Berlinale, Magnolia Pictures/Hulu); CAPTIVATED: The Trials of Pamela Smart, directed by Jeremiah Zagar (Sundance, HBO/Sky Atlantic); 51 BIRCH STREET (HBO, TIFF), which won numerous awards and was named one of the 10 Best Films of the Year by The New York Times; the BAFTA nominated SEVEN SONGS FOR A LONG LIFE (POV, BBC); and many others. She’s a member of AMPAS, BAFTA and the PGA.

Maeve O’Boyle - Editor

Maeve O’Boyle is an Emmy-award winning filmmaker. She edited The Education of Mohammad Hussein, (HBO) which was shortlisted for an Academy Award. She co-produced and edited the Emmy-award-winning and 2014 IRE award-winning, Firestone and the Warlord (PBS). She also edited and co-produced Growing Up Trans (PBS), which won a duPont Columbia award and was a Nominee for Best Documentary Emmy & Peabody Longform Doc award. She co-wrote and edited 112 Weddings which aired on HBO and BBC Storyville, and Do I Sound Gay? which had its world premiere at TIFF and was awarded the runner up for People’s Choice Award.  She directed, produced and edited The 8th which was nominated for an IFTA and won the 2020 Hollywood Gold Award for best documentary. More recently, she co-directed and edited Joan Baez I Am a Noise which had its World Premiere at Berlinale 2023.

Jonathon Corbiere - Director of Animation - Thought Café

Jonathon is the creative director and co-founder of Thought Café and FutureTalk. Specializing in graphic design, film and VFX, Jon and his team have worked on numerous award-winning documentary film projects including The Life and Mind of Mark Defriest, Narrowsburg, and There’s No Place Like This Place. He is an MIT Art Scholar and his recent work with Thought Café + FutureTalk branches into educational game-based experiences and immersive stereoscopic VR, including the Canadian Screen Award-winning A Curious Mind, produced for Hulu, as well as The Polar Lab for PBS’s NOVA and full PCVR 6DOF with Dark Threads.

Al Morrow - Producer, MetFilm Production

Al is a BAFTA nominated producer and Head of Documentary at MetFilm Production.  Her latest film is the fiction feature Last Breath (Focus Features) based on the documentary of the same name starring Woody Harrelson and directed by Alex Parkinson.  Other projects include the series The Enfield Poltergeist for AppleTV+ directed by Jerry Rothwell; Sam Hobkinson’s Misha and The Wolves(Netflix/BBC) which premiered at Sundance Film Festival and Jerry Rothwell’s The Reason I Jump (BFI/Vulcan) which won Best International Documentary at the Griersons, a BIFA award for Best Cinema Documentary and the Audience Award at Sundance. Previous films include Sour Grapes, How to Change the World, The Great Hip Hop Hoax, Village at the End of The World, Town of Runners, Pantomime, Donor Unknown, Men Who Swim, Heavy Load and Deep Water.