Adam Loften is a director, editor, cinematographer, and producer for short documentary films that highlight pressing social and environmental issues. His work has been featured on PBS, National Geographic, The Atlantic, and The New York Times.

Andrew Hinton is a filmmaker living in New York city. His films include the award-winning documentary short Amar and Tashi and the Monk.

Ann is a multiple award-winning filmmaker based in Toronto. Her previous films include Four Seasons Mosaic, The Roswell Incident and The Defector: Escape from North Korea. She is currently working on a feature documentary version of the short film My Enemy, My Brother.

Anna Ewert is an award-winning filmmaker from Germany. Her films include Into the Middle of Nowhere, Endless Day, Nadeshda, and 11 Degrees.

Arron Wilder produced the film Shaped by Hand. He owns and operates Table Top Farm, a 4-acre organic vegetable farm located in Point Reyes Station, California.

Writer Azby Brown is an artist and designer living in Japan. He is the author of The Genius of Japanese Carpentry, Small Spaces, The Japanese Dream House, The Very Small Home, and Just Enough: Lessons in living green from traditional Japan.

Ben Hilton is a filmmaker based in London. He works on diverse projects including political documentaries, romantic comedies, podcasts, and feature films.

Writer Bernie Krause has traveled the world recording and archiving the sounds of creatures and environments large and small. His contributions helped establish the foundation of a new bioacoustic discipline: soundscape ecology. Krause's most recent book, The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places, was published in March 2012. Photo Credit: Tim Chapman

Billy Silva is an Peruvian-American filmmaker based in New York City. His short documentaries have played at Hot Docs, Big Sky, Barcelona, MoMA Doc Fortnight, and other film festivals. He is also director and producer of the 2012 feature documentary A Place in the World.

Brendan Nahmias is a filmmaker from California. Brendan's work includes documentaries, narrative short films, television pilots, web series, music videos, reality programming, and commercials.

Caleb Ferguson is a photographer working in New York City. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Herald Tribune, The Village Voice, and Newsday.

Camille Seaman is an award-winning photographer based in California. Her work has shown in exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe and published in National Geographic, Italian Geo, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Outside, Zeit Wissen, Men’s Journal, Camera Arts, Issues, PDN, and American Photo among many others.