Samantha (Sam) Knowles '12is an award-winning Brooklyn-based filmmaker. Her film How We Get Free on HBO has most recently been shortlisted for a 2024 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film, and highlights the incredible work of Elisabeth Epps to abolish cash bail and end the criminalization of poverty.  She has been listed on the DOC NYC 40 Under 40 List for 2023, which honors and celebrates emerging talent in the documentary world. Samatha has been working in documentary film for the past decade on documentaries for HBO, Netflix, The New York Times , ESPN, the Discovery Channel, PBS, Showtime and BET. She is a Dartmouth College alum (cum laude) with dual degrees in Film and Psychology, and is currently directing a forthcoming documentary series for Disney and Imagine.

Jason Maloney '91 is an award-winning cameraman, editor and news and documentary producer specializing in foreign affairs coverage. His work has appeared on ABC, CBC, CBS, CNN, Discovery, HDNet, PBS, Nytimes.com and Time.com. He teaches courses on multimedia production and international crisis reporting. In 2014, he launched GlobalBeat, NYU's international reporting program that brings graduate students overseas for hands-on video reporting. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Directors Guild of America. Jason is the co-author of Your America , published July 2008 by Palgrave MacMillan. Jason holds a BA from Dartmouth College and a Masters from the London School of Economics.

Kate Novack '94is an Emmy-nominated writer, director and producer of documentaries. Her film Hysterical Girl ( New York Times Op-Docs), revisiting Sigmund Freud's only major case history of a female patient, was shortlisted for an Academy Award and nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing. Kate's feature The Gospel According to Andre (Magnolia Pictures) was named one of the top ten Queer films of the year by Indiewire. She wrote and produced Page One: Inside the New York Times (Magnolia Pictures, Participant Media), A Table In Heaven (HBO) and The Guy Who Got Cut Wrong , featuring the Soviet-Jewish novelist Gary Shteyngart.

Ricki Stern '87is an award-winning documentary film director, producer and writer. Most recently, she co-directed and co-produced with Jesse Sweet '98 the HBO documentary Nature of the Crime . Her many directing credits include the five-part series UFOs: Investigating the Unknown (2023), the six-part series Surviving Death (2021) and the Emmy-nominated Joan Rivers - A Piece of Work , (Sundance Film Festival award winner 2010). She has been to the Hop many times with her film partner Annie Sundberg '90, with whom she co-directed and co-produced My So-Called High School Rank (2022), the Emmy-nominated Reversing Roe (Telluride Film Festival, 2018), Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing (2016), In My Father's House (2015), Knuckleball! (2012), Burma Soldier (2011); Emmy-nominated The Devil Came on Horseback (Sundance Film Festival, 2007); and the Emmy-nominated The Trials of Darryl Hunt  (Sundance, 2006). Her first film was the Emmy-nominated Neglect Not the Children (1992).

Jesse Sweet '98is an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker. He recently directed Killer Robots (Netflix), exploring artificial intelligence in the military, The Murders Before The Marathon (ABC News/Hulu), investigating whether Tamerlan Tsarnaev committed a triple homicide 18 months before he bombed the Boston Marathon, and City of Joel , following a small-town political battle between a Hasidic sect and their secular neighbors. Previous works include Surviving Death (Netflix), Parts Unknown with Anthony Bourdain (CNN), Business of Drugs (Netflix), Years of Living Dangerously (Showtime), Enhanced (ESPN), Death Row Stories (CNN) and Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.