Brian Wilson is an Emmy-winning filmmaker who got his start in the ‘90s, editing for Lifetime Television’s Intimate Portraits. The 2019 feature documentary he co-wrote and co-edited, The Story of Plastic, addressing the global plastic crisis, aired on Discovery and received numerous honors, including the 2020 Emmy for Outstanding Documentary Writing. Brian also co-directed and co-edited 2014 feature documentary A Will for the Woods, the story of a man with terminal lymphoma who is determined to receive a natural burial and help save a tract of North Carolina woods from being clear-cut. It aired nationally on PBS, won multiple festival awards, and continues to be a key document of the conservation burial movement. Brian is fascinated by the process of exploration and distillation inherent in documentary editing, and strives to bring empathy, clarity, and wonder to every project. He graduated from Brown University with a degree in Comparative Literature and History. brianwilsonfilm.com

Tony Hale is an Emmy-winning documentary editor based in Brooklyn, NY. His feature-length editing work includes A Will for the Woods (which he co-directed), Charged, Afghan Cycles, The Story of Plastic, YOUTH v GOV, Do The Math, and The Lake at the Bottom of the World. They have been broadcast on PBS, Discovery, Netflix, Hulu, and Al-Jazeera, and been recognized with an Emmy for Writing, a Jackson Wild award for editing, a Griersons nomination, and over 50 festival awards. In 2022, Tony was also included in DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40. Other editing work includes pieces for NYT Op-Docs, The New Yorker, an Emmy-winning TV special, a scripted film by Lucy Liu, an abstract short programmed at MoMA, and multiple short docs. He also produces and directs content for mission-driven organizations. For Tony, editing is an exercise in deep listening and context building, and he is motivated as much by a love for the craft as he is by the stories and missions represented in the work. tonyfilm.com