Join leading nonfiction filmmakers Chai Vasarhelyi, Steve James, and Steve Maing as they talk about what drives them to use the documentary form to make meaning of the world.
Panelist
Award-winning filmmaker Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi is the director and producer of 'FREE SOLO', from National Geographic Documentary Films. more...
Panelist
Steve James previous work includes HOOP DREAMS; Sundance and IDFA awards winner, STEVIE. more...
Moderator
Tabitha Jackson assumed the role of Sundance Film Festival Director in February of 2020. Serving as the Director of the Documentary Film Program at Sundance Institute from 2013 - 2022, she and her team encouraged the diverse exchange of ideas by artists with a mission to champion the power of artful cinema in the culture and to support a more expansive set of makers and forms. more...
Panelist
Stephen Maing is a filmmaker based in New York City. His feature documentary Crime + Punishment, which he directed, filmed and edited over four years, won a Special Jury Award at Sundance, an Emmy Award and was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary. His previous films, High Tech, Low Life, directed, filmed and edited over five years, and The Surrender, were released on POV and Field of Vision, respectively. His upcoming film The Great Experiment is an ambitious cinematic time capsule of one of the most volatile and perplexing eras of American history & identity. He is a 2021 United States Artists Fellow and recipient of the International Documentary Association's Courage Under Fire Award. He is a member of the Academy, a frequent visiting artist and lives in Ridgewood, Queens with his partner and young daughter. more...