JULIE WYMAN (DIRECTOR)’s creative documentary work engages issues of embodiment, body image, and the possibilities and problematics of media spectatorship - all informed by her experience of living with hypochondroplasia dwarfism.  Her 2012 documentary STRONG! premiered at AFI Silverdocs and was broadcast nationally on PBS’s Emmy award winning series, Independent Lens, where it won the series’ Audience Award. Wyman’s work has been awarded support from Sundance, Sandbox, IDA, SF Film Society, Points North, ITVS, the Creative Capital Foundation, The Princess Grace Foundation, California Humanities and NEH. She has been a fellow at the UC Davis Feminist Research Institute and a resident SF Film Society’s Filmhouse, Siena Art Institute, Logan Nonfiction and Points North. Her films, including FATMOB (2016), BUOYANT (2005), and A BOY NAMED SUE (2000), have aired on Showtime, MTV’s LOGO-TV, and have been exhibited on five continents. She serves as Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Media at UC Davis.

LINDSEY DRYDEN (PRODUCER) is an Emmy® award-winning film producer and director based in Austin TX and the UK. She produced Sundance Special Jury Award-winning UNREST (2017, PBS/Netflix), produced Emmy®-winning TRANS IN AMERICA (2018, ACLU/CondeNast them) and executive produced AHEAD OF THE CURVE (2020, Starz) and BIFA-nominated narrative short THE FORGOTTEN C (2020). She directed LOST AND SOUND (2012, SXSW), JACKIE KAY: ONE PERSON, TWO NAMES (2017, Tate Queer British Art), and CLOSE YOUR EYES AND LOOK AT ME (2009, True/False). She is a co-founder of FWD-Doc: Filmmakers with Disabilities, a proud member of QueerDoc, a 2022 Sundance Institute Documentary Producers Lab Fellow, a BFI Vision Awardee 2020, a former Filmmaker-In-Residence at Jacob Burns Film Center and a full voting member of the film and TV chapter of BAFTA. She founded Little By Little Films, which specializes in brilliant storytelling by LGBTQ+, women’s and D/deaf and disabled voices.

JONNA MCKONE (PRODUCER) is a filmmaker, producer and artist based in Baltimore, MD. She works with documentary, narrative, archives and abstraction to explore connections between landscapes, the body, and memory. She produced ALL LIGHT, EVERYWHERE, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival where it won a Special Jury Award for Nonfiction Experimentation and MARGIE SOUDEK’S SALT AND PEPPER SHAKERS (Sundance 2023). ALL LIGHT, EVERYWHERE is distributed by Super, LTD and broadcast on Hulu. The film was named a best film of 2021 by Artforum, Esquire and The New Yorker. Alongside filmmaking, Jonna is an artist who has shown her work in galleries and museums and has received support from the Rubys Artist Grant, Skidmore’s Storytellers’ Institute, The Andy Warhol Foundation’s Grit Fund, the Baker Artist Awards, the Puffin Foundation, Maryland State Arts Council, and the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has been a Points North American Stories Fellow, a Center for Documentary Studies Lewis Hine Fellow, a VisArts Studio Fellow, and Photography Resident Artist at Monson Arts.    

SHALEECE HAAS (PRODUCER) is an Emmy Award-winning documentary producer and director based in Los Angeles. Producing credits include DELIKADO (2022; Hot Docs, POV); ASIAN AMERICANS: BREAKING THROUGH (2020; PBS, Peabody Award); and TEXAS STRONG (2018; SXSW, Emmy Award). Directing credits include REAL BOY (2017; PBS/Independent Lens), which won 20 festival awards; and the animated short TO THE FUTURE, WITH LOVE (2021; POV Shorts). Shaleece is also a certified somatic practitioner and a film supervisor at Film in Mind, which provides therapeutic support for the film industry.

LOI ALMERON (ASSOCIATE PRODUCER) is an investigative producer and video editor of award-winning documentaries and features in the United States and abroad. One of the first documentaries she worked on, JOHNNY: A JUAN PONCE ENRILE STORY, an in-depth profile of the administrator of Martial Law in the Philippines, won a Silver World Medal at the New York Film Festivals 2013. For more than a decade, Loi has worked extensively in the end-to-end production processes for documentaries. Most recently, she co-produced BLACK MOTHERS LOVE & RESIST, and research produced “The 50” and STEPHEN CURRY: UNDERRATED. She also associate produced the PBS Frontline film TRAFFICKED IN AMERICA, a 2019 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting finalist, and edited HALE which won the Student Academy Award for Documentary 2017 and MAKING THE FIVE HEARTBEATS, a 2019 NAACP Image Awards nominee for Outstanding Documentary. Currently, Loi is producing the mental health documentary CRISIS OF YOUTH and historical and sports documentaries, DIAMOND DIPLOMACY and BASEBALL BEHIND BARBED WIRE. She has played multiple roles on the producing team for THE TALLEST DWARF and HOW WE LOOK.