Elizabeth Lo 罗宝 – Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Co-Editor
Elizabeth is a filmmaker whose documentary films have been showcased at Sundance, IDFA, SXSW, Tribeca, MoMA, AFI Fest, True/False, New York Times Op-Docs, Field of Vision and PBS’ POV. Elizabeth has been featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” DOC NYC’s “40 Under 40,” and Cannes Lions’ “New Directors Showcase.” She is a recipient of artist fellowships from Locarno, New York Film Festival, Yaddo and MacDowell, and was selected for the Concordia Studio Fellowship and Gotham/HBO Documentary Development Initiative. Her debut feature, Stray, won Best International Feature at Hot Docs and received nominations from the Independent Spirit Awards, Critics Choice Documentary Awards and Cinema Eye Honors after premiering at Tribeca in 2020. A New York Times “Critic’s Pick,” Stray was released theatrically by Magnolia Pictures and is now streaming on Hulu. Her short films — including Hotel 22, Bisonhead, and Mother’s Day — have been acquired by colleges and libraries worldwide. Elizabeth holds a BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from Stanford University. She was born and raised in Hong Kong.
Emma D. Miller – Producer
Emma is a Gotham Award–nominated filmmaker whose work explores the messiness and beauty of being human. She produced Iliana Sosa's SXSW award-winning What We Leave Behind (ARRAY Releasing/Netflix), a New York Times "Critic's Pick," and recently directed the short documentary The School of Canine Massage (SXSW 2024). As development executive for nonfiction at Concordia Studio, she worked on Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning films that premiered at Sundance, Tribeca and Telluride, including Time (Amazon Studios), Boys State (Apple TV+/A24) and Procession (Netflix). She was a casting associate for Showtime's Couples Therapy series; associate producer of the Academy Award-nominated short documentary Knife Skills (The New Yorker); associate producer of the Oscar-shortlisted, Sundance award-winning feature Unrest (Independent Lens/Netflix); and co-producer of an upcoming feature for National Geographic Documentaries. Emma was named one of DOC NYC’s “40 Under 40” and is a 2023 Sundance Producing Lab Fellow and 2024 JFI Filmmaker in Residence. She is currently directing her feature debut, Father Figures.
Maggie Li 李琪 – Producer
Maggie is a Shanghai-based producer, simultaneous interpreter and magazine editor. She co-produced Jessica Kingdon’s 2022 Oscar-nominated documentary Ascension 登楼叹, which won Best Documentary at Tribeca Film Festival and was acquired by MTV Documentary Films. In addition, Maggie has worked as a producer for media companies including the BBC, PBS, Reuters, National Geographic, CNBC, Discovery Network Asia, VPRO, Business Week and CICC, and produced commercial work for clients including Deloitte, Bain & Co, Colliers, J.P. Morgan, Bunzl, SKII and Dior. In 2023, she was selected as an artist resident at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai. She is currently producing Devon Blackwell’s Panda Diplomacy and Nathan Truesdell’s Mystery Seeds; co-producing Jessica Kingdon’s Untitled Animal Project, Violet Feng’s Dating Coach series and Ian Bell’s WTO/99; and directing her feature debut about a 30-year-old neighborhood bar in Shanghai.
Charlotte Munch Bengtsen – Editor
Charlotte was a dancer and photographer before studying for a masters in film editing at NFTS, UK. She has edited multiple 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 Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw’s 2021 Oscar-shortlisted The Truffle Hunters (Sundance, Cannes), for which she received a Critics Choice Award nomination for best editing. Charlotte’s latest credits are Robin Petre’s From the Wild Sea, Ai Weiwei’s Rohinga and Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes. All That Breathes, the first film to win Best Documentary at both Sundance and Cannes, won a Gotham Award for Best Documentary and received multiple nominations from the Cinema Eye Honors, IDA Awards, Critic's Choice Association Documentary Awards and Peabody Awards, as well as an Academy Award nomination.
Anonymous Content
Anonymous Content is a global media company that produces multi-platform premium content and boasts an exceptional client roster which includes many of the world’s most renowned and innovative directors, writers and actors. The company’s award-winning Film & TV division encompasses many commercially successful and critically acclaimed works including three-time Academy Award–winning film The Revenant; Best Picture Academy Award winning film Spotlight; Academy Award–winning film for Best Original Screenplay Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; and three-time Primetime Emmy Award–winning Mr. Robot. On the film side, they are behind the recently released features FOE, starring Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal and Aaron Pierre, and The Marsh King’s Daughter starring Daisy Ridley, as well as the highly anticipated upcoming adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys. Series include season four of True Detective starring Jodie Foster, Time Bandits from Taika Waititi, Disclaimer from Alfonso Cuarón starring Cate Blanchett, limited series East of Eden starring Florence Pugh with Zoe Kazan set to adapt, and Savant starring Jessica Chastain. The company also has a robust documentary division, boasting a burgeoning slate of premium features including Alex Gibney’s Musk, Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber’s War Game, Union, 5 Seasons of Revolution, Raoul Peck’s Orwell, and In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon. Through its commercial work, Anonymous Content is also the driving creative force behind countless leading global brands. As part of Anonymous Content’s continued global expansion, the company has established multiple joint ventures with international partners including Spain-based Morena Films, AC Federation, AC Nordic, AC Brazil and AC Chapter One.
Impact Partners
Impact Partners is dedicated to funding independent documentary storytelling that entertains audiences, engages with pressing social issues and propels the art of cinema forward. Over the span of 15 years, Impact Partners has been involved in the financing of over 150 films, including: Icarus, which won the 2018 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature; 32 Sounds, which won 2024 Cinema Eye Honors for Outstanding Nonfiction Feature; Aftershock, which won a 2023 Peabody Award; Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, which won the 2019 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary; Dina, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and was named Best Feature by the International Documentary Association; The Eagle Huntress, which was nominated for the 2017 BAFTA Award for Best Documentary; How to Survive a Plague, which was nominated for the 2013 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature; Of Fathers and Sons, which was nominated for the 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature; and Hell and Back Again, which won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.