Grace Lay is one of the two Asian-American women co-founders of LinLay Productions, along with actress Sumalee Montano. Together, they support multicultural, intergenerational stories that generate conversations to lead us toward collective healing. The slate encompasses narratives and documentaries including VOICE OF HIND RAJAB by Kaouther Ben Hania (2025 Venice Film Festival Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize), SUGARCANE by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie (2025 Oscar nominated for Best Documentary; Nat Geo), BLACK BARBIE: A DOCUMENTARY by Lagueria Davis (2025 NAACP award for Best Documentary, two-time 2025 Emmy awarded; Netflix); and NANNY by Nikyatu Jusu (2022 Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner; Amazon).

Ina Fichman is a Canadian film producer and president of Intuitive Pictures, based in Montreal. She is best known as a producer of the Oscar-nominated and Peabody award-winning 2022 film Fire of Love. She won the Gemini Award for Best History Documentary Program for Undying Love in 2003. She has been nominated for the 34th Producers Guild of America Awards, British Academy Film Awards, Emmy, Critics Choice Awards and Canadian Screen Awards. Credits include: the Sundance award-winning documentary Coexistence, My Ass, Adrianne & The Castle, The Wanted 18 and The Oslo Diaries, amongst others. Fichman was the recipient of the Don Haig Award at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in 2018. She is the co-president of the board International Documentary Association and a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Carrie Lozano joined Sundance as the Director of the Documentary Film Program in 2020 where she works to elevate and support nonfiction filmmakers worldwide at all stages of creating and distributing new cinematic work. Lozano is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, and a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. She joins the Institute from the International Documentary Association's Enterprise Documentary Fund; where she co-founded and oversaw the program, which supported dozens of filmmakers over the last four years, with an emphasis on journalistic rigor, diversity and inclusion. Prior to the IDA, Lozano led the Bay Area Video Coalition's National MediaMaker Fellowship and was an executive and senior producer at Al Jazeera America. Films that she has directed or produced have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival; her most recent film is 2016's The Ballad of Fred Hersch. Lozano serves on the boards of the nonprofit production companies Kartemquin Films, Swell Cinema and The Free History Project.

Sandie Viquez Pedlow is the Executive Director of Latino Public Broadcasting, public media’s largest Latino content developer and funder which provides programming to PBS and its multi-media platforms. She brings to this position over 30 years of experience in program development, production, and the development of international public media initiatives. Most recently she was Director, Station Relations for PBS Education where she led the implementation and marketing of PBS online and digital media products and services. Prior to PBS, Pedlow was Director of Programming Strategies, Associate Director of Cultural, Drama and Arts Programming, and Senior Program Officer with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for 10 years. She managed the development and funding of national public broadcasting programs which addressed social issues, history, the arts and many aspects of American culture. Prior to this work, Pedlow developed and produced documentaries, cultural/arts television programs for SCETV and was the U.S. National Coordinator for INPUT, an international public television conference with more than 35 participating countries. She has served on the boards of CINE, The American Documentary, American Playhouse Artistic Committee, INPUT and LPB.

Megan Gelstein is an Emmy® Award-winning producer and the Senior Program Director of Catapult Film Fund. In that role, she supports and cultivates independent, cinematic non-fiction filmmakers globally and provides creative, strategic, and editorial advice to supported films and filmmakers through Catapult’s artist development programs. Recent films supported by Catapult Film Fun include CRIP CAMP, MAYOR, STORM LAKE and PRAY AWAY. Prior to joining Catapult, she worked as an independent producer where her work was supported by Sundance Documentary Fund and Chicken & Egg Pictures. Megan worked at PBS/WGBH-TV for over 15 years, where she produced and directed films for the flagship series American Experience and NOVA. She won a National Emmy® Award in the category of Research for her work on the PBS series “Africans in America:America’s Journey through Slavery”.