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Emma Francis-Snyder (Director) is a New York based activist and award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her directorial debut, Takeover, was part of the 2021 New York Times OpDoc series, and was shortlisted for an Academy Award as well as nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy. Takeover was also featured as Vimeo's Best New Creator in 2021 and shortlisted for the IDA and Cinema Eye awards. She is a 2020 Ford Foundation: Just Films and Open Society Foundation grantee. In 2012 Emma, and co-director, Sara Beth Curtis, received the Rosen Fellowship through CUNY Brooklyn College and traveled to Santiago, Chile and Montreal, Quebec to film the simultaneous student movements. She was the co-producer of the film, Straight/Curve, and the associate producer of Yoruba Richen’s series, I Rise.
Yael Melamede (Producer) founded the independent production company SALTY Features over two decades ago. Its most recent films include: Death & Taxes, a personal look at our publicly flawed tax system; Ada–My Mother the Architect, a documentary on architecture, motherhood, and home; Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely, a documentary on free speech through the story of First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams; and Pay or Die, a documentary examining the insulin crisis in America through the lens of Type 1 diabetes. Other credits include (Dis)Honesty, The Truth about Lies, the Academy Award-winning Inocente, Emmy-winning When I Walk, and Academy Award-nominated My Architect, as well as the six-part television series Why We Hate. Yael was trained as an architect and serves on the Board of UnionDocs and the Living City Project; she is also a member of the DPA and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences.
Tiffany Fisher-Love (Producer) straddles the line between narrative and documentary projects. She is currently working on the feature documentaries Storming and The Experiencer Project and the feature-narrative Hawaiian Vacation. Previous work includes Co-Producer on Boycott and the Emmy-nominated United Skates. Tiffany produced the award-winning shorts Barista, Daniel, Booked, and Out to Dry. With a background in digital media, she has worked with Upworthy, Brut, Peoria, and Fellow Americans to distribute educational and impactful content at scale for over a decade. Tiffany was a 2021 Film Independent Documentary Fellow, a 2022 Sundance Producer Intensive Fellow, and a 2023 SF Film Creative Advising Mentor. She serves on the board of the Documentary Producers Alliance and the Steering Committee of New Day Films. She also holds a world record as outdoor theatre's youngest female technical director.
Debbie Goodstein (Executive Producer) is an award-winning filmmaker working in the industry for over 25 years. Her areas of concentration are independent Jewish-themed, Holocaust-oriented and social justice films. Her works include the Academy Award shortlisted personal holocaust documentary, Voices From the Attic, which won 26 awards. Voices was recently named by the Berlin Film Festival as “one of the twenty best Holocaust films of the 20th century”. In 2016, Goodstein produced a sequel short to Voices called Echoes From The Attic, as a companion piece to the original film. Among her other works, Goodstein wrote, produced and directed the narrative film, Mighty Fine, which was awarded first prize at Toronto’s Female Eye Film Festival.