Sam Pollard is an Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated director and producer. His films for HBO, PBS, and the Discovery Channel include the documentaries Four Little Girls, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Slavery by Another Name, Sammy Davis, Jr.: I Gotta Be Me, ACORN and the Firestorm, Why We Hate, Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children, and MLK/FBI. Pollard also directed two episodes ofthe groundbreaking series Eyes on the Prize. Since 1994 Pollard has served on the faculty of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and lives in New York City.

Rex Miller’s work has been featured in New York Magazine, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Time. For the last 15 years, he has been directing, producing and shooting for HBO and with Nanfu Wang, Heidi Ewing/ Rachel Grady, Sam Pollard, and Steven Cantor. Recent projects as Director include the documentaries, ALTHEA (2015, PBS), SOMAY KU: A Uganda Tennis Story and Behind These Walls, both of which aired on Tennis Channel. Recent work as Cinematographer includes the documentaries Private Violence (HBO) and The Loving Story (HBO), 6 seasons of the Peabody and multiple Emmy winning series A Chef’s Life (PBS) and the spin off Vivian Howard series Somewhere South.