ALAN DOMÍNGUEZ
Filmmaker, Firelight Media + American Masters S2
Alan Domínguez (Alejandro Jimenez: The Ground I Stand On) is a Mexican-American filmmaker based in Denver Colorado. He recently wrapped production on a documentary short for the Beyond Graduation series in conjunction with NALIP, World Channel, and Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He also directed the short doc, CLEVER (2016) - about the journey of a former MS13 member out of the gang life to his current life of working with youth. The film has been shown throughout the US as well as the Morelia International Film Festival in Mexico. Alan will participate in DocShop as a panelist for Art and Artist: Firelight Media x PBS American Masters.
ALICIA G. EDWARDS
Filmmaker, Firelight Media + American Masters S2
Alicia G. Edwards (Walshy Fire: Pull Up) is a director based in Miami, Florida. Her love of visual storytelling developed in her early career as a network news producer with work featured on CNN, NBC, MSNBC, and BBC. She has earned fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Florida Humanities Council, and a Special Jury Award from Oolite Arts. Her most recent short documentary was a commissioned collaboration between Oolite Arts and Community Justice Project called The Village (Free)dge. She earned her MA in Transnational Communication and the Global Media at the Goldsmiths College of University of London, UK. Alicia will participate in DocShop as a panelist for Art and Artist: Firelight Media x PBS American Masters.
ANGELA CARABALI 
Filmmaker, American Film Showcase
Audiovisual producer, lecturer, master in documentary film (honor student) UPB Colombia. She is driven by social, ethnic and cultural heritage issues. Director and co-scriptwriter of the documentary in late production “Will they ever come back?” which has been granted the William Greaves Fund by Firelight Media (USA ), the “Brouillon d’un rêve documentaire” by SCAM (France), among others. Director and co-writer of the transmedia documentary “Criers of Medellín'', which has received 12 selections at festivals and 8 awards. Angela will participate in DocShop as a panelist for Global Documentary Filmmaking: Challenges and Opportunities.
ASMAHAN BKERAT
Filmmaker, American Film Showcase
Asmahan Bkerat is a Palestinian-Jordanian documentary filmmaker. Bkerat’s first short documentary “Badrya'' won the Jury Prize for Best MiniDoc at the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival. She is currently working on her first feature- length documentary “CONCRETE LAND” and producing the feature doc “HARVEST MOON”. She is an alumna of Sundance, IDFA, DFI, SDI, The Whickers, The American Film Showcase, Cannes Docs in progress, Dhaka doc lab, Doc Edge, AIDC and the RFC. Asmahan will participate in DocShop as a panelist for Global Documentary Filmmaking: Challenges and Opportunities.
BROOKE PEPION SWANEY
Filmmaker, Firelight Media + American Masters S2
Brooke Pepion Swaney (Lily Gladstone: Far Out There) is a member of the Blackfeet Nation and works to tell Indigenous stories. Presently, Daughter Of A Lost Bird, her first feature documentary, funded by Vision Maker Media and recipient of a 2021 Wyncote PBS Fellowship, is available on America ReFramed. In 2020, her script with co-writer Angela Tucker, Tinder on the Rez, was selected for the BlackList’s inaugural Indigenous List. Ok Breathe Auralee, her NYU graduate thesis film, screened at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and has TV distribution with FNX (First Nations Experience, a PBS affiliate). Brooke’s experience also includes producing BELLA VISTA (Rotterdam 2014), Vision Maker Media funded short film and new media project Sixty Four Flood (PBS & PBS digital), and the first season of the podcast All My Relations (Matika Wilbur & Dr. Adrienne Keene). She has been a fellow with Sundance/Time Warner, Woodstock/White Feather Arts, and the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Brooke will participate in DocShop as a panelist for Art and Artist: Firelight Media x PBS American Masters.
CHRISTINE TURNER
Filmmaker, Firelight Media + American Masters S2
Christine Turner (J’Nai Bridges Unamplified) is a filmmaker who spotlights tender, intimate portraits of people in socially charged landscapes. Her most recent film, Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day, (Paramount Plus) was nominated for a Peabody, shortlisted for an Oscar and won an NAACP Image Award. Other work includes Betye Saar: Taking Care Of Business (New York Times Op-Docs), Paint & Pitchfork (The New Yorker) and the critically-acclaimed, Homegoings, (PBS/POV). In addition, Christine has directed episodes of The 1619 Project (Hulu) and Art in the Twenty-First Century (PBS). Christine will participate in DocShop as a panelist for Art and Artist: Firelight Media x PBS American Masters.
DESMOND LOVE 
Filmmaker, Firelight Media + American Masters S2
Desmond Love (Senghor Reid: Make Way For Tomorrow), director and cinematographer, is an award-winning filmmaker born and raised in Detroit. He was the cinematographer for Sidelots (2018), which won awards in prestigious film festivals. He has directed and produced work for the Detroit Narrative Agency, Kresge Arts in Detroit, Mural Arts Philadelphia, and various non-profit and corporate organizations both local and abroad. Desmond will participate in DocShop as a panelist for Art and Artist: Firelight Media x PBS American Masters.
DILSEY DAVIS 
Filmmaker, Firelight Media + American Masters S2
Dilsey Davis (Rissi Palmer: Still Here) is a multicultural filmmaker based in Durham, NC. Her life’s mission is to use the Arts, and particularly film, to advance society by building social bridges and fostering a greater understanding of the oneness of humanity. Prior to expanding into documentaries, she wrote and directed commercials, narrative films, and television programs. Most notably, she was the creator, producer and director of Nuestro Barrio, the first Spanish-language series to air on English-language television in the United States. Davis is the founder of Café con Leche Media and the co-founder of One Human Family Workshops, Inc., a non-profit organization that promotes racial and religious unity. One Human Family is featured in a recent documentary short, Now Let Us Sing which was produced as part of the Hindsight Project, a collaboration between ReelSouth, Firelight Media, and the Center for Asian American Media. She produced and directed four documentary shorts for ITVS/Independent Lens's Stories for Social Justice on rural jails in North Carolina and Tennessee which included the films Zoo Crew and Sheriff Paula Dance: Bringing Change to Pitt County and the East Tennessee based short, Daughters of Addiction which was broadcast on PBS. She currently leads The Narrative Lab at RTI, International which focuses on using research and storytelling to change harmful narratives into helpful narratives to uplift and improve the human condition. Dilsey will participate in DocShop as a panelist for Art and Artist: Firelight Media x PBS American Masters.
DUSTIN NAKAO-HAIDER
Filmmaker, Firelight Media + American Masters S2
Dustin Nakao-Haider (Ethan Lim: Cambodian Futures) is a Japanese-Desi American filmmaker from Chicago. A two time Emmy nominee, his feature length debut, Shot in the Dark, was supported by the Sundance Institute, Film Independent, ESPN Films, EFILM/Company 3, premiered on FOX, and was a New York Times Critics’ Pick. He has produced multiple seasons of docuseries on Netflix, ESPN+, and TNT. He directed the commercial doc series Dear Chicago (Bleacher Report/NBA on TNT) to promote the 2020 NBA All-Star Game; the series won Best Marketing Initiative at the 2021 Cynopsis Sports Media Awards. His short documentaries on Jay Z, Robinson Cano, Kendrick Lamar and others have garnered millions of views online. Most recently he co-wrote Pali, a play produced on the Stanford University main stage adapted from Indian writer Bhisham Sahni’s short story. Dustin is a co-founder of the production collective Bogie. Dustin will participate in DocShop as a panelist for Art and Artist: Firelight Media x PBS American Masters.
EDEN SABOLBORO
Filmmaker, Firelight Media + American Masters S2
Eden Sabolboro (Senghor Reid: Make Way For Tomorrow) is an Emmy®-Award winning Filipino-American producer, director and video journalist based in Detroit, Michigan. In 2015, she co-founded Reel Clever Films LLC, a video and film production company specializing in non-fiction storytelling and branded content. Eden has produced and directed an immersive body of short-form documentaries, creative films, and commercial campaigns, and received a Regional Emmy® for her producing and directing work on the Kresge Arts in Detroit film series, 10 mini-documentaries highlighting the work and artistic practices of celebrated artists across metro Detroit. She is a graduate of the New York Foundation for the Arts’ Immigrant Artist Program, and was invited to participate in both the Sundance Institute’s Creative Producing Lab and Firelight Media’s Groundwork Lab in Detroit. She recently served as Supervising Producer for Shifting Urban Narratives, a multimedia fellowship for young people in Detroit to tell their stories about change, resilience, joy, and community development. Eden will participate in DocShop as a panelist for Art and Artist: Firelight Media x PBS American Masters.
ERIC MWANGI
Filmmaker, American Film Showcase
Eric Mwangi is a cinematographer and director with filmmaking experience in the Eastern and Southern African region and an alumnus of the American Film Showcase documentary residency at the University of Southern California. His goal is to bring an African perspective to the global pool of life-changing stories, thereby contributing to the expansion of the African Cinema language. Passionate about filmmaking, he has worked with different producers to execute projects across multiple locations, meeting different needs with the overall goal of storytelling achieved through efficiency and creative professionalism. Mwangi's projects range from Documentaries, TV commercials and brand films to short films, working through production houses such as Zero Point Zero Productions [New York], Zeleman Productions [Ethiopia], YCF Productions [Zambia], Docubox [Kenya], One Fine Day Films, Some Fine Day Pix [Kenya], among others. Some of his career highlights include cinematography for the National Geographic Explorer Series on the ongoing Rhino Resurrection episode with Ami Vitale and Documentary filmmaker Taylor Rees Freesolo, Cinematography for the acclaimed Zambian TV drama UBUNTU, which is a first from that country on Showmax; working on a Netflix sizzle reel by Academy Award-Winning Director Rodger Ross William; Emmy Award-Winning Documentary TV Show Anthony Bourdain - Parts Unknown; among others. Eric will participate in DocShop as a panelist for Global Documentary Filmmaking: Challenges and Opportunities.
JUANITA ANDERSON
Filmmaker, Firelight Media + American Masters S2
Juanita Anderson (Sydney G. James: How We See Us) is a producer, director, still photographer and media educator who was born and raised in Detroit. Her creative work lies at the intersection of cultural history, artistic expression and the responses to social injustice that amplify the voices of communities too seldom represented on screen. Her community-centric approach to documentary storytelling was nurtured during a 17-year public television station career where she headed two groundbreaking African American series – Detroit Black Journal and Say Brother, before embarking on a career in independent media in 1993. She is best known for her work as executive producer of the 1988 Academy Award-nominated feature film Who Killed Vincent Chin? (a film by Christine Choy and Renee Tajima), the ITVS-commissioned series Positive: Life with HIV (1995), the PBS public affairs special, Black America: Facing the Millennium, a co-production with NBPC (1997), and the Favorite Poem Project Video Anthology (2000, 2006, 2014), Her most recent credits include “Detroit field producer” for Thomas Allen Harris’ 2019 series Family Pictures USA. Anderson was named the 2019-2020 Wayne State University Murray Jackson Creative Scholar in the Arts, where she currently heads the Department of Communication’s Media Arts & Studies programs and has served as a faculty member since 2003. A long-standing advocate for diversity in public media and the arts, Anderson was a co-founder of the National Black Programming Consortium (now Black Public Media) and is a past president of the National Conference of Artists, the nation’s longest-standing African American visual arts organization. She currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of American Documentary, Inc. Juanita will participate in DocShop as a panelist for Art and Artist: Firelight Media x PBS American Masters.
QUANG NÔNG NHẬT 
Filmmaker, American Film Showcase
Nông Nhật Quang is a filmmaker based in Hanoi. He started as a videographer in a content agency, creating documentaries for British Council, before taking part in the Queer Asia project, where he directed two documentaries about queer culture in Vietnam. The series is streaming on Apple TV. Prior to the pandemic, he worked as a content manager for Rogue Creative in Singapore, producing documentaries and advertisements. Quang is currently working on his first feature film. Titled “Baby Jackfruit Baby Guava”, the documentary was presented at Cannes Docs, received support from the IDFA Bertha Fund (Netherland), won Best project - Young director at DMZ Docs Pitch (Korea) and Most Promising project at the Southeast Asian Film Lab (Singapore) Quang is an alumni of American Film Showcase, IDFAcademy, SGIFF Southeast Asian Film Lab and Asia Doc. He’s also a founding member of doc cicada - a Vietnam documentary development initiative. Nông will participate in DocShop as a panelist for Global Documentary Filmmaking: Challenges and Opportunities.
RAÚL O. PAZ-PASTRANA
Filmmaker, Firelight Media + American Masters S2
Raúl O. Paz-Pastrana (Alejandro Jimenez: The Ground I Stand On) is a Mexican immigrant filmmaker and cinematographer based in Denver, Colorado. His work intersects experimental non-fiction, participatory filmmaking, and visual ethnography to explore themes of belonging, alienation, and the concept of “home.” Raul’s first feature film, Border South (2019), followed the migrant routes from southern Mexico to the U.S.-Mexico border. The film screened at festivals worldwide including the Sheffield Doc/Fest, The New Orleans Film Festival, and the Guadalajara International Film Festival. Raúl’s work has received support from the Spark Fund, the Princess Grace Foundation, the Ford Foundation-JustFilms, The LEF Foundation, ITVS, Catapult, The Jerome Foundation, and the Sundance Institute among others. He is a BAVC MediaMaker fellow, a Firelight Media Documentary Lab Fellow, a Lincoln Center/New York Film Festival Artist Academy alumni, a New America National Fellow, and a Creative Capital Awards Artist Fellow. Raúl will participate in DocShop as a panelist for Art and Artist: Firelight Media x PBS American Masters.
SERGIO RAPU
Filmmaker, Firelight Media + American Masters S2
Native Rapanui (Easter Island) filmmaker Sergio Mata’u Rapu (Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology) has produced documentary specials and series that have aired on History Channel, Travel Channel, Discovery, National Geographic, and PBS. Eating Up Easter, his award-winning directorial debut, was broadcast on Independent Lens in 2020. He recently co-produced and edited Leya Hale’s Emmy winning Bring Her Home, a character-driven story about the missing and murdered Indigenous women epidemic. As one of the only native Rapanui working in documentary film, he seeks to foster BIPOC producers and their stories while creating thought-provoking media that shows the complexity of life in order to inspire resolutions to social, economic, and environmental conflicts. Sergio will participate in DocShop as a panelist for Art and Artist: Firelight Media x PBS American Masters.