Bre Kelly found film through her visual impairment, ocular-albinism, where she used cameras to physically see the world around her. Despite the irony of a visually impaired visual artist, Bre has continued to attempt to mirror the advocacy she received for her eyes amidst her work as a producer. Deadset on a film career, she started her first film company in the fourth grade, by high school she made her first feature, and after graduating from NYU Tisch, she dove headfirst into the industry.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, she founded her own company, BrickHead, with a vision to foster growth among rising young filmmakers. BrickHead quickly became a thriving grass-roots production house in New York creating music videos, documentaries, and partnering with Complex for a multitude of commercial projects. Now Bre has produced over a hundred projects, bringing an authentic, crew-first approach to storytelling. Since BrickHead’s founding, she has continued to expand, working as Supervising Producer, LP,  and EP at several production companies,while also growing Brickhead. She recently wrapped production on her second feature film, Isle Child, and produced alongside Antigravity and Dolby through their New Visions/New Voices grant program. Bre remains dedicated to her producing films that leave a lasting impact, championing unique, untold stories from the next generation of creative talent.

Nosarieme Garrick is an Emmy-nominated producer and director, proudly represents Nigeria while drawing inspiration from her global upbringing. As an activist, she founded Vote or Quench, a pioneering youth voter engagement platform in Nigeria that led to the country’s first youth-focused presidential debate, broadcast internationally.

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She is the creator of the acclaimed documentary series My Africa Is, which received the Black Public Media BPM 360 grant and an engagement grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The series was also featured in the Vitra Design Museum’s Making Africa exhibition, which has toured globally.

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Nosarieme has produced and directed television for major networks, including Hulu, FX, Showtime, and HBO. Her credits include Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi, United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell, and The New York Times Presents.

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In 2019, she was selected as a fellow of the IFP (Gotham) Episodic Lab for her narrative series in development, Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women.

Doug Shultz is a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker who has been creating provocative film and television for over 20 years.  His work has screened at over 60 film festivals around the world and can be seen on outlets such as Netflix, Apple TV+, ABC, CNN, PBS and National Geographic and Discovery, among others. Doug has a reputation for bringing a cinematic eye and an unconventional edge to a wide range of subjects, from social and environmental issues, science and natural history to large-scale docudrama. He most recently directed and produced THE LINE, a four-hour investigative series exploring SEAL Team 7’s deployment to Iraq and the war crimes trial of Chief Edward Gallagher for Apple TV+. The series was nominated for two Documentary EMMY Awards: Best Documentary and Outstanding Investigative Documentary. Doug was also Director and Director of Photography for the international Netflix series PANDEMIC: HOW TO PREVENT AN OUTBREAK, nominated for an EMMY for Outstanding Science & Technology Documentary, and was a Producer, Cinematographer and Writer on THE HUMMINGBIRD EFFECT, recently nominated for a Documentary EMMY for Outstanding Nature Documentary and winner of the Prix de l’image at the Nature Namur Film Festival. He is currently wrapping as Executive Producer, Writer and Director on a four-hour series about insects and the ongoing "insect apocalypse" for PBS, Love Nature and ARTE, slated to premiere in May 2025.

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Doug also recently directed the CNN series CHASING LIFE with Dr. Sanjay Gupta  - also nominated for an EMMY for Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary - and an investigation into water scarcity and conflict, PARCHED: GLOBAL WATER WARS, for National Geographic. Other recent films include the feature documentary DEFIANT REQUIEM, which won widespread acclaim on the international festival circuit and for which Doug was nominated for two News & Doc EMMY Awards for Outstanding Writing and Best Historical Documentary.  Other notable work includes the Emmy-winning docudrama series CIA CONFIDENTIAL, Emmy-nominated SHADOW OPS and the PBS Nature special SILENCE OF THE BEES which won a George Foster Peabody Award and was nominated for four News & Documentary Emmy Awards. Through his company, Black Licorice Pictures, he develops both narrative and documentary projects aimed at all platforms, from theatrical release to streamers to whatever new outlets the future brings.

Giles Perkins is a writer and director based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from Baltimore, MD, Giles is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a B.F.A. in Film & Television Production. His two most recent films, Expiration Date (documentary) and Apollo (narrative), explore niche interpersonal conflict emanating from misguided American ideals.

Expiration Date screened at St. Louis International Film Festival, Norwich Film Festival, New Hampshire Film Festival, and Lunenburg Doc Fest this fall. The film will have its west coast premiere at The American Documentary and Animation Film Festival this spring. Apollo had its world premiere at the Woodstock Film Festival where it was nominated for best short film. The project also earned Giles a finalist position for the 2024 Sundance Ignite Fellowship and a shortlist nomination for the Young Director Awards.

Giles has directed music videos for artists such as Gryffin, Elley Duhé, and Isabel LaRosa, among many others across various labels including Interscope, RCA, Gamma, and The Darkroom. In 2023, Giles directed short documentaries on Brooklyn-based fashion designer KidSuper and each of his Paris Fashion Week shows, including the AW23 season he designed for Louis Vuitton. Giles is in pre-production for his next short. He is also in the development stage for his debut feature film.

As a child, Amy was a fanatic for all things ancient and Egyptian.  The suburbs of New Jersey crushed her ten-year old soul.  IBM rescued her from stultifying mall culture with a job that brought the family to Iran. That pivotal and extraordinary year in the Middle East set the course for her future and led to a ten year stint at National Geographic where she started her documentary career. Her addiction to archaeology inspired multiple films about ancient cultures in her beloved Egypt, Peru, Russia and Sudan. She pursued man-eating Tigers in India, filmed cosmonaut training in Russia, climbed volcanoes, and stuck her hand in the mouth of a Great White Shark.  After a few decades she settled down and began making films about living human beings who it turned out were equally fascinating. 

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Amy is now an award winning producer, director, writer and showrunner. For 13 years, she oversaw the production of more than 100 hour-long episodes of the documentary series Our America (OWN) and This is Life with Lisa Ling (CNN), exploring thought-provoking topics like polygamy, psychedelic healing, addiction, incarceration, and the universal pursuit of love and connection in a polarized world. She is known for her compassionate approach to storytelling and commitment to the highest standards of journalistic integrity. Awards acknowledging her work include an Emmy for directing (A Walk to Beautiful), an Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Documentary (Child Brides, Stolen Lives), and an IDA award for Best Documentary Series (Our America with Lisa Ling) For her most recent film After Uvalde: Guns, Greed and Texas Politics (PBS FRONTLINE) she was nominated for a Peabody Award and two Emmys for writing and directing. She splits her time between the bricks of Brooklyn and the loamy soil of the Delaware River Valley.

Harris Gurny is a New York-based producer and writer/director. As a producer, his latest feature On The End, starring Tim Blake Nelson, Mirielle Enos and Anna Chlumsky, is currently in post-production. His previous film Coup!,starring Peter Sarsgaard and Billy Magnussen, premiered at the 2023 Venice Film Festival and is currently on Hulu. He co-produced The God Committee, starring Kelsey Grammer, Julia Stiles and Colman Domingo, which premiered at Tribeca in 2021, as well as the upcoming documentary ASCO: Without Permission, executive produced by Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, which will premiere at SXSW in 2025.

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As a writer-director, his short film Day at the Zoo premiered at the 2022 Maryland Film Festival and has garnered 60,000+ views online. His short film Mustache had its online premiere on NoBudge in 2021 after a festival run. His comedy screenplay Sibling Games was a 2023 Big Apple Competition Finalist, and his romantic comedy scriptAdulting was selected for the 2024 Stowe Story Labs. Harris has written nine feature scripts and assisted on films directed by Steven Soderbergh and the Safdie Brothers.

Caroline Sommers is an award-winning producer of long and short-form non-fiction content. Over the course of [REDACTED] years in the TV business, she has covered breaking news, crime, politics, medicine, entertainment, comedy, and pop culture.

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Caroline honed her skills as a persuasive booker and natural interviewer in the chaotic world of tabloid television. Since then, she has been employed at virtually every major television network, where she has built a reputation as an excellent (and fast) writer, a mentor of up-and-coming talent, and a creative and collaborative team player.

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To date, she has produced so many hours of programming, she has lost count. She is currently a staff writer on the syndicated TV series True Crime News and is thrilled to be working with the Wise Child Collective to develop thrilling and groundbreaking content.

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Her passions outside the business include the creation and consumption of food, craft coffee, and crossword puzzles. Her puzzle collaborations have been published in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

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The mother of two (grown) humans and one canine, Caroline currently lives in NYC with her Polish Lowland Sheepdog, Bebe Rebozo.

Paul is an Emmy award winning producer and director whose 25 year career has spanned everything from feature films, commercials, feature documentaries and documentary series. Most recently he produced Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller for National Geographic. Paul’s work has taken him all over the world, most recently Lebanon, Jordan, The Congo, Morocco, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, Nepal, South Africa, Mali, Kenya and Uganda.

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He’s currently in post-production on his latest documentary feature about the daring rescue of 3 chimpanzees from war torn Central African Republic, and in development on a scripted feature, as well as multiple unscripted projects with a wide range of world class collaborators.

Lisa Bryant is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with more than 25 years of experience as a Director, Showrunner, and Executive Producer for Netflix, MAX, Hulu, Peacock, Oxygen NBC, Investigation Discovery, History Channel, Spike, Travel Channel, Law & Crime and Court TV.   She’s a proficient interviewer with a wide range of experience including sexual assault survivors, crime victims’ and victims’ family members, death row inmates, U.S. Presidents, celebrities, and pro athletes.  

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Bryant has won critical acclaim for the Netflix documentaries Jeffrey Epstein:  Filthy Rich and Ghislaine Maxwell:  Filthy Rich, drawing attention to survivors of sexual assault and the systemic abuse of power in the United States and around the world.  

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Prior to investigating the Epstein saga, other noteworthy docuseries include Unspeakable Crime: The Killing of Jessica Chambers, The Black Widower: The Six Wives of Thomas Randolph, The Mind of a Murderer, andGONE: The Forgotten Women of Ohio. Awards include: 2 Critic’s Choice Awards: (Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich and Unspeakable Crime: The Killing of Jessica Chambers), Cynopsis Award: Best True Crime Series (Unspeakable Crime:The Killing of Jessica Chambers), Emmy Award (NBC Sports Special), 6 Tellys, 2 Gracie Awards and an Associated Press award.