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Jamila Wignot is a documentary filmmaker based in New York. Her directing work includes the Peabody, Emmy and NAACP award-winning series The African-Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (PBS), hosted by Henry Louis Gates and chronicling the five hundred year history of African Americans; Town Hall (co-directed with Sierra Pettingill), a feature-length co-production with ITVS following Tea Party activists determined to unseat Barack Obama; and, for PBS’s American Experience series, the Peabody Award-winning Triangle Fire and Emmy-nominated Walt Whitman. Jamila’s producing credits include W. Kamau Bell’s Bring The Pain (A&E); Sundance award-winning director Musa Syeed's narrative feature A Stray (SXSW); Street Fighting Men, following the Black Detroiters fighting for the city they love; and The Rehnquist Revolution, the fourth episode of WNET’s series The Supreme Court, which was an IDA Best Limited Series winner.

Lauren DeFilippo is a documentary director and producer based in New York. Her short films—most notably Clean Hands, The Here After and Detroit Party Marching Band —have screened at numerous festivals, including Slamdance, Hot Docs and CPH:DOX, and have been featured on The New York Times Op-Docs and Eyeslicer II . Her work has been supported by institutions such as the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms, Sundance Institute and IFP Documentary Lab. Lauren co-produced the Emmy-nominated Into the Canyon for National Geographic. Her recent directorial feature debut, Red Heaven (co-directed with Katherine Gorringe), follows six people as they live for a year inside a NASA psychological experiment to simulate humanity’s first outpost on Mars. In addition to producing Ailey , Lauren is currently directing Free Money, a feature-documentary about the world’s largest universal basic income experiment now underway in rural Kenya. She holds an MFA in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University.