Isabella Grace Cohn - Director

Isabella is the director of Watch You Rise, a documentary film and impact campaign, born from Cohn's earlier initiative, the Me Too Teen Project, which provided an online platform for teens from across the world to share stories of sexual abuse survival. Isabella is one of four who was excepted into the Athena Documentary Pitch Program for 2025. Her activism has garnered significant attention, including mainstream media coverage and the honor of receiving the 2024 YWCA “Energizing The Future Award.” Her recent TEDx Talk may be found here. She was invited to attend the 2024 Telluride Student Film Symposium and has had numerous public speaking engagements, such as at the 2022 YWCA Reproductive Rights protest and for the Boulder County D.A.’s office during Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Cohn's commitment to fostering dialogue through film is evident in her efforts to engage young adults both in front of and behind the camera. Through her work, she strives to create spaces for meaningful conversations and change.

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WILLA Productions and Elizabeth Woodward - Producer

Elizabeth is a producer of documentary and narrative films, and founder of WILLA.

She was selected for Forbes 30 Under 30, DOC NYC 40 Under 40, Berlinale Talents, and is an Impact Partners Producers Fellow and a Sundance Catalyst Fellow. Her recent films include ANOTHER BODY (SXSW Special Jury Award, Sundance Catalyst), YOU RESEMBLE ME (Venice Film Festival, executive produced by Spike Lee, Spike Jonze, Alma Har’el, Riz Ahmed) and ON THE DIVIDE (Tribeca Film Festival, POV on PBS). Other notable projects include Netflix’s THE GREAT HACK (Academy Award shortlist, Emmy nominee, BAFTA nominee, Sundance Film Festival), HBO’s hit series THE VOW: A NXIVM STORY (New York Times Best TV Shows of 2020), a VR experience PERSUASION MACHINES (Sundance New Frontier, SXSW). Elizabeth’s films have been supported by Sundance Institute, Impact Partners, Chicken and Egg, Film Independent, Field of Vision, The Gotham, New York Foundation for the Arts, the International Documentary Association, among others. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Council on Foreign Relations Young Professionals Group, the Documentary Producers Alliance, and the Frontline Club.

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Maria Marrone - Co-Writer and Editor

MARIA MARRONE is a documentary filmmaker and photographer. She received her undergraduate degree from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and her master's from the London School of Oriental & African Studies. Her cinematography, editing, and co-direction in her first film, The Ritual to Beauty, won the Grand Jury prize at Slamdance and received nominations at BlackStar Film Festival, HotDocs, and BFI London Film Festival. She has been part of the editing team for award-winning films and has dedicated much of her work to films that promote social change, most notably for the Muslim, Latinx, and Afro-Latinx diaspora. She has used her talents to create moving pieces for charities working out of Palestine and Iraqi Kurdistan. Her photo work has been featured in a series of publications including VICE, DazedDigital, and Latina Magazine.

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Virginie Danglades - Story Consultant/Consulting Editor

Virginie Danglades is a seasoned film & television editor who works on strong story and character-driven films, verité-style documentary features and shorts, as well as TV series for broadcast and streamers. The Barber of Little Rock, a recent short film she co-edited, was nominated for an Oscar in 2024.  She edited No Farewells (“Sans Adieu”) a French documentary feature which opened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017 and Wine Crush, an immersive film exploring a summer harvest and the winemaking process, which opened at DOCNYC. Virginie also edited episodes for PBS Reconstruction: America after the Civil War, Netflix Harry and Meghan and The Principles of Pleasure, and was a regular editor on CNN's long-running investigative series “This is Life with Lisa Ling.” Across many projects and genres, Virginie is committed to editing stories and films that will help further understand our complicated world.

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Lisa Remington Consulting Producer 

Emmy-nominated filmmaker, LISA REMINGTON has produced over two dozen documentaries including Nathaniel Kahn's art world exploration The Price of Everything (Sundance 2018), Johanna Demetrakas’ inspiring Netflix Original Feminists: What Were They Thinking?, and Mark Jonathan Harris’ myth-busting look at the Los Angeles foster care system Foster (AFI Docs 2018, HBO). Other projects include Rory Kennedy’s portrait of her mother Ethel (Sundance 2012, HBO); Davis Guggenheim’s Obama campaign short The Road We’ve Traveled; and Jessica Yu’s short about net neutrality, made for the Ford Foundation,foreveryone.net. Lisa co-produced Sam Feder’s Disclosure (Sundance 2020), Richard Ray Perez and Lorena Parlee’s Cesar’s Last Fast (Sundance 2014), and Lucy Walker’s Countdown to Zero (Sundance 2010). She also collaborated with Robert Greenwald on Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers and on The Freedom Files series for PBS. Lisa mentors for Sundance Institute’s Creative Producing Program and is a member of the Producers Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Beret Strong, Ph.D., M.F.A. - Consulting Producer 

Beret E. Strong has been making documentary films since 1995 and owns Landlocked Films.She is also a researcher, writer, and educator. Her films have shown on PBS stations across the U.S. and Canada and won CINE Golden Eagles, the NAFDMA Insight Award for Excellence, an IDA/ABC News Videosource Award nomination, and various best director and best feature documentary film festival awards.  Festival screenings include Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Yamagata International Film Festival, Cine las Americas Film Festival, the Boulder International Film Festival, Denver International Film Festival, and the Pan African Film Festival. Her most recent films are This is [Not] Who We Are about racism and Now Matter What, about addiction, incarceration, and recovery. Beret cares about amplifying people’s voices, social justice and equity, the global community, and the health of our planet.

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Kathy Leichter - Consulting Producer/Engment Strategist

Kathy Leichter is an award-winning documentary producer, director, engagement strategist, and impact producer with over thirty years of working in film and television. Her most recent film, HERE ONE DAY,about mental illness and suicide in Leichter’s family, premiered at IDFA, won Best Documentary and the Jury Prize at the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, and is now the centerpiece of a national screening initiative that Leichter designed and currently directs. Previously, Leichter directed and produced A DAY’S WORK, A DAY’S PAY, in association with ITVS, which follows three welfare recipients fighting for economic justice in New York City, and designed and directed the film’s 5-year audience engagement campaign.  She has produced numerous independent documentaries including LIKE ANY OTHER KID by Victoria Mills and SPIT IT OUT by Jeff Shames. Leichter has extensive experience designing and implementing successful audience engagement campaigns and has produced over 1500 impact events (in-person and virtual) across the country on issues including racial and economic justice, the climate crisis, mental health, women, policing, civil discourse, juvenile justice, and Jewish identity

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Tracy Dundon – Assistant Producer and Outreach Coordinator 

Tracy Dundon is deeply committed to amplifying the voices of our youth and is a dedicated advocate for justice, fostering positive change through her involvement in volunteering, legislation, film, and community engagement campaigns. She currently serves as the Chair of the Advocacy Committee and on the Board of Directors for the YWCA of Boulder County, an organization devoted to empowering women, eliminating racism, and promoting peace, freedom, and dignity for all. As a founding member of the Boulder Valley School District's Title IX Stakeholder Council, Tracy collaborates to create systems and policies that go beyond mere Title IX compliance, focusing on prevention, inclusion, and equity. Drawing on her background in business and personal experience, Tracy actively contributes to marketing, fundraising, and community engagement when promoting projects through her extensive networking and outreach efforts.