Shaunak Sen is a filmmaker and film scholar based in New Delhi, India. Cities of Sleep (2016), his first feature-length documentary, was shown at various major international film festivals (including DOK Leipzig, DMZ Docs and the Taiwan International Documentary Festival, among others) and won 6 international awards. Shaunak received the IDFA Bertha Fund (2019), the Sundance Documentary Grant (2019), the Catapult Film Fund (2020), the Charles Wallace Grant, the Sarai CSDS Digital Media fellowship (2014), and the Films Division of India fellowship (2013). He was also a visiting scholar at Cambridge University (2018) and has published academic articles in Bioscope, Widescreen and other journals.

Aman Mann is a filmmaker and media researcher based in New Delhi, India. Aman was the associate director of Cities of Sleep (2016), which was screened in various international festivals and won 6 international documentary awards. Aman has produced various ad films, short documentaries and video installations. He is currently enrolled as a PhD candidate in Cinema Studies in Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Teddy Leifer founded Rise Films in 2006. A five-time Emmy® winner, his credits include The Invisible War (Oscar® nominee and Emmy® winner), The Interrupters (Emmy® winner), Icarus (Oscar® winner), Knuckle (Sundance world premiere), Dreamcatcher (Sundance winner), We Are Together (Tribeca winner), Rough Aunties (Sundance winner), The Human Factor (Telluride world premiere), Mayor (Emmy® winner) and The Art of Political Murder (executive produced by George Clooney).

Teddy’s latest feature, All That Breathes directed by Shaunak Sen is the only film ever to have won both the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and Best Documentary at the Cannes Film Festival – where the film premiered in 2022.

His other recent productions include George Carlin’s American Dream, a two-parter for HBO directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio which won the 2022 Emmy® for Outstanding Documentary and Once Upon A Time In Londongrad, a timely political thriller about 14 mysterious UK deaths with alleged Russia links for Sky Documentaries, Peacock and NBC Universal.

He just wrapped production on a feature length finale of the multi award-winning Plebs, following a five season run as the most-watched comedy in ITV2’s history.

Teddy was recently listed in the "100 most innovative and influential people in British creative and media industries" by the Guardian newspaper. He is a member of the Producers Guild of America and BAFTA.

Florrie joined Rise Films in 2018 after graduating with a degree in History from Cambridge University. Since then she has worked on productions including: The Art of Political Murder (HBO); The Human Factor (Sony Pictures Classics); David Osit’s multi-award winning Mayor; and Shaunak Sen's All That Breathes – the only film ever to have won both the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and Best Documentary at the Cannes Film Festival – where the film premiered in 2022.

Other recent productions include George Carlin’s American Dream, a two-part documentary for HBO directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio, which won the 2022 Emmy® for Outstanding Documentary and Once Upon A Time In Londongrad, a timely political thriller about 14 mysterious UK deaths with alleged Russia links for Sky Documentaries, Peacock and NBC Universal.

She is now working in development and production on a number of documentary and scripted projects, including Thank You & Goodbye, a drama series on the News International phone hacking scandal, written by Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn and directed by Saul Dibb.

David Elisco manages the development and production of a portfolio of films for HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, focusing on feature-length documentaries. In his work, he is drawn to dramatic stories that touch the heart, inspire wonder, and provide insight into life on Earth. Most recently, Elisco served as executive producer on the Peabody Award-winning film Inventing Tomorrow, the Emmy Award-winning film The Serengeti Rules, and the critically acclaimed film Oliver Sacks: His Own Life. His current slate includes Super Bugs with Amos Pictures for HBO and the BBC and Wilding with Passion Pictures.

As Head of Studio, Sean B. Carroll directs HHMI Tangled Bank Studios’ mission, strategy, and editorial focus, and oversees both the documentary and dramatic film slates. An internationally recognized scientist, award-winning author, and Emmy Award-winning executive producer, Sean is the architect of HHMI’s filmmaking initiative to bring great stories about science and scientists to broad audiences. He has served as executive producer on a wide variety of feature documentary, IMAX, and short films. As leader of HHMI’s Department of Science Education, he also oversees the largest portfolio of privately supported science education activities in the United States.

Ben Bernhard graduated as a Bachelor of Arts (Camera) at the BHT Berlin before he started to study cinematography at the Deutsche Film-und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb). Since then he has worked on various short and feature-length fiction and documentary films as Director of Photography. In 2014 he received a scholarship at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles.

Since 2009, Ben has been working with well-known director Victor Kossakovsky. Their film Aquarela had its world premiere as an official selection of the 2018 Venice Film Festival, the U.S. premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, won the Golden Star at the El Gouna International Film Festival, and was shortlisted for the 2020 Oscars.

Ben was nominated for Germany’s main cinematography award, Deutscher Kamerapreis, in 2019 for his work on Lost Reactor. The project also won Best Cinematography at the Achtung Berlin Film Festival. He also received an award for his work on the film Homework (director: Annika Pinske) which won the German Short Film LOLA Award in 2016.

Charlotte Munch Bengtsen was a dancer and photographer before studying for a masters in film editing at NFTS, UK. She has edited several award-winning feature documentaries, including Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing, Christy Garland’s The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song, Ada Søby’s American Losers, Boris Bertram’s War Photographer Lasse Lau’s The Raven & The Seagull and Dweck & Kershaw’s 2021 Oscar shortlisted The Truffle Hunters, for which she received a Critics Choice Award nomination for best editing. Charlotte’s latest credits in 2021 are Robin Petre’s From the Wild Sea and Ai Weiwei’s Rohingya. Charlotte served as a juror for the IDA Documentary Awards 2021.

Roger Goula is a London-based composer and multi-instrumentalist whose range of original works spans across albums, film scores, music for dance, TV, theatre, and art installation.

Roger has scored numerous award-winning films which have been presented at international festivals such as Venice Film Festival, Toronto, Sundance, Tribeca and BFI, amongst many others, and was featured in the prestigious ASCAP Composers Spotlight at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

His scores for renowned feature documentaries include the BIFA-nominated Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach; the BAFTA-nominated feature The Hard Stop from director George Amponsah; and the BIFA Winner Next Goal Wins. Roger’s original scores for television include the BAFTA-winning BBC drama Killed by My Debt; the BAFTA-nominated BBC drama Against the Law, starring Daniel Mays; BAFTA-winning BBC docudrama The Left Behind, and the ITV/Netflix flagship series The Ripper.