Jeremiah M. Bogert Jr.
Director / Producer

is currently a photo editor at The New York Times and has more than 25 years of experience producing award-winning visual stories. He was the photo assignments editor at The New York Times during the 9/11 terrorist attacks for which the paper won two Pulitzer Prizes in photography. While at the Los Angeles Times, he edited a story on victims of gang violence which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2011 and was part of the team awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2016 for coverage of the terrorist attacks in San Bernardino. Additionally, at the Los Angeles Times, he produced several short documentaries, including CHASING THE SWELL, a 2012 film about big wave surfing. He received his BA in philosophy from Yale University and his MA in journalism from the University of Missouri.

Diane Quon
Producer

is an Academy Award-nominated producer who worked as a marketing executive for 17 years at NBC and at Paramount Pictures. Diane produced the Kartemquin Films documentaries: Oscar and Emmy-nominated, Peabody award-winning, MINDING THE GAP directed by Bing Liu (Hulu, POV); THE DILEMMA OF DESIRE directed by Maria Finitzo (Showtime); Emmy-nominated FINDING YINGYING directed by Jiayan “Jenny” Shi (MTVDocs) and FOR THE LEFT HAND (PBS). Other feature documentaries include BAD AXE (IFC FILMS) and WUHAN WUHAN (GRAVITAS, POV); and upcoming documentaries include UNTITLED SAM AND OMAR PROJECT and THE UNTITLED 19TH* NEWS FILM.. In addition, Diane is developing a fiction film based on a New York Times bestselling book, and Bing Liu’s first original screenplay. Diane is an AMPAS and PGA member.

Nevo Shinaar
Producer

is a creative producer based in Chicago. His award-winning films have played at film festivals including Sundance, SXSW, AFI Docs and Palm Springs, acquired by Disney+, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel, POV/PBS, and The New York Times, and supported by Tribeca Film Institute, Sundance Institute and Kartemquin Films. Nevo produced STAY CLOSE, a short documentary which was a Cinema Eye Honors 2020 Nominee and shortlisted for the 92nd Academy Awards and co-produced WHITE EYE, a short live-action film which was nominated at the 93rd Academy Awards. He is a founding member of SITE collective, and of Wolf + Me Films.

Harrison Schaaf
Director of Photography

is a Los Angeles born-and-based Director/DOP, specializing in telling immersive visual stories around the globe. To date, Harrison has shot for clients in Shanghai, Beijing, Chile, Argentina, Taiwan, Mexico, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau, Los Angeles, and New York. Harrison is fluent in Mandarin and maintains a presence across Asia, particularly in Shanghai and Beijing, where he lived for three years working as a director/cinematographer. Harrison’s passions include surfing, skiing, aviation, and traveling to the far corners of the globe to find unique images. Harrison has found that living these pursuits on a personal level greatly impacts the choices Harrison makes behind the lens.

Chad Cannon
Composer

is a composer & multi-instrumentalist whose recent credits include the Oscar-winning Netflix documentary AMERICAN FACTORY, the D.I.C.E Award-winning Sony PlayStation videogame GHOST OF TSUSHIMA (Iki Island Expansion), and the WGA Award-winning EXPOSING MUYBRIDGE (with Gary Oldman). Fluent in Japanese and proficient in Mandarin, Chad works frequently in Asia, most notably as an arranger for Joe Hisaishi. He is an alumnus of Harvard, Juilliard, and the Sundance Composer Labs.

Caryn Capotosto
Executive Producer

is a 3-time Emmy-winning documentary producer known for WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?, which also received a 2019 Independent Spirit Award, a Producers Guild Award and Critics’ Choice Award for Best Documentary. She received a 2016 News and Documentary Emmy Award for her role as co-producer on BEST OF ENEMIES and she was associate producer on the Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning documentary, 20 FEET FROM STARDOM (2013). Other projects include FEELS GOOD MAN, which won a Special Jury Award at Sundance 2020 (Producer), SHANGRI-LA, a music doc series for Showtime (Co-Executive Producer 2019) and the Emmy-nominated Netflix series UGLY DELICIOUS and BREAKFAST, LUNCH, DINNER (Executive Producer 2019-2020).

Bonni Cohen
Executive Producer

has produced and directed an array of award-winning films since co-founding Actual Films over 20 years ago with her film partner, Jon Shenk. Most recently, she produced LEAD ME HOME, which premiered at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival and is a Netflix Original. She also recently co-directed ATHLETE A, which won an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Documentary and received four nominations from the Critics’ Choice Awards. Bonni directed AUDRIE & DAISY in 2016, premiering at Sundance and becoming a Netflix Original. Her film, AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL was the opening night film at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, earning her a BAFTA nomination. In 2010, Bonni co-founded the Catapult Film Fund, which gives development grants to documentary films.

Mark Mitten
Executive Producer

is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy award winning producer who has created a variety of media and entertainment projects including originating and producing the Steve James directed documentary ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL as well as a feature film adaptation with Participant Media. He was a producer on the Roger Ebert documentary, LIFE ITSELF, which was named best documentary by The National Board of Review and The Producers Guild of America. Other documentaries Mark has produced include RINGSIDE, FINDING YINGYING and the recently released THE LOST LEONARDO and the upcoming JOAN AND TED. Mark is making his directorial debut this year with MIRACLE ON 19TH STREET.

Justine Nagan
Executive Producer

is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary producer and creative media executive. She recently relocated to California and joined Actual Films as their Head of Production. Prior to this role, Justine was the Executive Director of American Documentary, Inc., and an Executive Producer on its two signature series, POV (PBS) and America Reframed (World Channel.) During her tenure, she launched POV Shorts, and oversaw AmDocs programming that included several Oscar nominations, and Emmy, Peabody and DuPont wins. Films showcased during her time at AmDoc include THROUGH THE NIGHT , THE MOLE AGENT, SOFTIE, MINDING THE GAP, LAST MEN IN ALEPPO, DARK MONEY, HOOLIGAN SPARROW and 93 QUEEN. Before AmDoc, Justine led Kartemquin Films as Executive Director for seven years. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the PGA and the Television Academy.