Ora DeKornfeld is an Emmy-award winning journalist, filmmaker and editor based in Los Angeles and Mexico City. Through character driven verite storytelling, she seeks to shed light on the human condition behind divisive political issues. She began her career as a video journalist (The New York Times, LA Times, The New Yorker, National Geographic, The Guardian). DeKornfeld is a regular contributor to the New York Times. Her work there has been nominated for four News and Documentary Emmys. She directed, produced, filmed and edited the award-winning, Emmy-nominated short, USA vs. Scott (Tribeca 2020, The New Yorker). In the past few years, she’s moved into the longer form storytellign space. She was a director on the documentary Netflix show, Explained, where she reported and directed four episodes. She shot and edited Isabel Castro’s Sundance film, “Mija” soon to be released on Disney+. She is currently in development on a feature about Fixers.

Isabel Castro is a Mexican-American director, producer and cinematographer whose work includes USA v Scott (Tribeca 2020, The New Yorker), Emmy-nominated Darlin (Tribeca 2019, NYT OpDocs), the Netflix series Pandemic and the GLAAD Media award-winning Crossing Over (Univision/Participant Media). Previously she has worked as a multimedia journalist for The New York Times, as a Murrow-winning producer at The Marshall Project and as an Emmy-nominated producer at VICE on HBO. She is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Concordia Studio and is a fellow at Firelight Media. She is working on her feature debut, Mija, with support from Impact Partners, Cinereach, Concordia Studio, Catapult Fund/SFFilm, Sundance Institute, Points North Institute/CNN Films, Firelight Media and Chicken & Egg.