Sara Khaki is a director, producer, and editor. Her co-directed film Our Iranian Lockdown received an International Documentary Association nomination. Her co-directed Netflix original, Convergence: Courage in a Crisis, received a 2022 Emmy nomination. Khaki is a 2020 Sundance Institute Documentary Fund grantee and Chicken & Egg alum. more...

Mohammadreza Eyni is a director, producer, and cinematographer. A co-founder of Gandom Films Production L.L.C., Eyni’s works received an International Documentary Association nomination. A 2021 Firelight Media fellow, 2020 Sundance Institute Documentary Fund grantee, and Tribeca Film Institute alum, his career bridges boundaries and elevates underrepresented voices. more...

Christopher King is an award-winning filmmaker originally from Melbourne, Australia, who has lived and worked in Nairobi, Kenya, since 2007. Co-directing with wife Maia Lekow, their first feature, The Letter, was Kenya‘s official submission to the 93rd Academy Awards in 2021. more...

Maia Lekow is a renowned Kenyan musician and filmmaker. Currently performing internationally with her band Maia & the Big Sky, Lekow fuses her music with a fascination of people and culture to make films as a documentary director, producer, composer, and sound recordist. more...

Soheil Rezayazdi is a Digital Course & Event Producer at the Sundance Institute, where he produces multi-session courses, master classes, filmmaker Q&As, and other digital programs for Sundance Collab. Prior to Sundance, Soheil served as the Nonfiction Programs Manager at the Gotham Film & Media Institute. He oversaw the Gotham’s core documentary programs: the Documentary Feature Lab, the Spotlight on Documentaries project market, and the Documentary Development Initiative in partnership with HBO Documentary Films. Soheil has worked with emerging filmmakers since 2015, when he began a seven-year tenure at the Columbia University MFA Film Program. At Columbia he managed the Columbia University Film Festival (CUFF), the Dr. Saul and Dorothy Kit Film Noir Festival, and the Carla Kuhn Memorial Speaker Series. Soheil is also a freelance writer on film and pop culture with articles in Indiewire, McSweeney’s, Vice, Filmmaker Magazine, Documentary Magazine, Paper, Paste, and elsewhere. He has also served as an external reviewer for artist programs operated by Creative Capital, Kartemquin Pictures, Chicken & Egg Pictures, and the International Documentary Association. A native of Iran, he holds an MA in journalism and a BA in film studies from the University of Iowa. more...