Johnny Harris is a multimedia journalist at Vox. His show, Borders, is an international documentary series that explores people and culture at various border areas. Johnny also makes videos for his personal YouTube page, where he posts career advice and other musings.

Johnny called in from his home in Washington DC to discuss how he was able to successfully pitch and execute Borders, his run-and-gun shooting style, and the benefits of working under pressure.

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Ed Ou is a visual journalist at NBC Left Field. He started his career as a teenager, shooting in the Middle East for Reuters and the Associated Press. He then worked for the New York Times covering East Africa and the Middle East during the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. Ed now makes videos and short documentaries for NBC. He lives in NYC but is originally from Canada.

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Glen Zipper is a documentary producer based in Los Angeles. One of his first films, Undefeated, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2012. His more recent work includes the Netflix docu-series, Dogs, and the 2-part HBO documentary, What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali.

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Pamela B. Green directed and produced Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché, a documentary about the first female filmmaker. For her day job, Green produces movie trailers and other marketing materials for films.

Be Natural appeared at festivals including Cannes, BFI, NYFF, and made its U.S. theatrical debut in April 2019.

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Meghan Oretsky is a curator at Vimeo, selecting videos for its Staff Picks page. She also founded Ladies with Lenses, a Vimeo channel and NYC-based screening series featuring women filmmakers. Meghan lives and works in NYC.

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Rachel Lears is a documentary producer and director based in New York. Her latest film, Knock Down the House, follows four female grassroots candidates, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as they take on establishment candidates in the 2018 primaries. Knock Down the House won the Festival Favorite Award at Sundance and debuted on Netflix on May 1. Rachel’s last film, The Hand That Feeds was nominated for an Emmy in 2017, broadcast on PBS, and won awards and recognition at Full Frame, DOC NYC, AFI Docs, and numerous other festivals on the 2014-15 circuit. In both films, Rachel collaborated with her husband Robin Blotnick.

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What exactly does a film distributor do? And do filmmakers even need a distributor? Dan Berger, the president of Oscilloscope films answers all our burning questions about documentary film distribution—from what to do with a short doc, to what distribution companies are looking for in a film, to why certain films do better on Amazon than iTunes.

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Mickey Duzyj is a sports illustrator and director living in upstate New York. His award-winning ESPN 30 for 30 short "The Shining Star of Losers Everywhere" was adapted in to the Netflix Docu-series, “Losers”, which premiered in March 2019. Mickey was the Director, Illustrator and an Executive Producer on "Losers".

Mona Panchal is the Vice President of Digital at First Look Media, primarily focusing on producing non-fiction programming for Topic Studios. She produced “The Shining Star of Losers Everywhere" and was an Executive Producer on “Losers”.

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Nausheen Dadabhoy is a Pakistani-American cinematographer from Southern California. She has been a Director of Photography on a handful of documentary features and spent 9 years making her own film, The Ground Beneath Their Feet.

Nausheen was, at one time, the only female cinematographer in Pakistan, and she opens up about the challenges she faced working in a patriarchal environment. Nausheen also discusses why choosing the right collaborators and building a strong team is crucial to filmmaking.

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Alexandria Bombach is a cinematographer, editor and director from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her feature-length documentary ON HER SHOULDERS follows Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi woman who survived genocide and sexual slavery by ISIS. Now free, Nadia must navigate the bureaucracy and fame of being a human rights figure.

Bombach gives insight on how filmmakers and the media should portray stories of trauma. She also explains her decision to produce, shoot and edit all her own films.

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