Petter Ringbom
Director, Writer, Cinematographer

Petter’s feature documentary, The Russian Winter, followed musician John Forté’s Russian odyssey after release from prison. His film, Shield and Spear, examined freedom of expression in South Africa. Petter’s films have screened at Tribeca, IDFA, Hot Docs, Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Hammer Museum, Miami Art Basel and Moscow International Film Festival. He has been a Film Independent Fast Track Fellow, a Gotland Film Lab resident at the Ingmar Bergman Estate and a Berlinale Talent.

Ruchi Mital
Producer, Writer

In 2014, Ruchi produced the feature documentary, We Could Be King, which won the Emmy for Outstanding Sports Documentary. Her next film, Sky Ladder: The Art Of Cai Guo-Qiang, premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Ruchi returned to Sundance in 2019 with the feature documentary, This is Personal, which examined the promise and challenges of an intersectional feminist movement. In the spring of 2019, HBO aired a four-part documentary series Ruchi produced over more than three years, The Case Against Adnan Syed.

Princess A. Hairston
Editor

Princess is an editor & filmmaker in NYC. Princess was supervising editor for Pier Kids which premiered at DOCNYC. She was an editor on Fresh Dressed, an official 2015 Sundance Film Festival selection, and edited the first two episodes of the Emmy-nominated series Capture with Mark Seliger. Princess was selected for the 2019 DCTV Docu WIP Lab. She is a 2018 recipient of the Karen Schmeer Editing Fellowship and a 2018 Winner of the NYTVF + WEtv Producer Pitch. Princess is a proud member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia and the Alliance of Editors

Matthew Head
Composer

Matthew Head creates Grammy-nominated as well as Emmy, NAACP Image, and Peabody Award-winning soundtracks while working out of the home he grew up in Marietta, Georgia. The family man’s work includes two seasons of OWN’s Greenleaf, BET’s Boomerang, two seasons of Carl Weber’s The Family Business on BET+, P-Valley on Starz, and going it solo as a music producer after collaborating with Timbaland on Step Up: High Water Season 3.

Marquise Stillwell
Executive Producer

Marquise Stillwell is the executive producer for Shield and Spear, The New Bauhaus, and a number of short films. He is the founder of Openbox, a design consultancy that provides talent and resources into ambitious and innovative ventures. He has contributed to various programs at the Joyce Theatre, the New Museum, and MCA Denver. He currently sits on the board of the Andrew Goodman Foundation and the Lowline Underground Park.

Grand Slam Film
Co-Producer

Eliza Jones and Markus Waltå founded Grand Slam Film in 2015, while graduating from their BA as film producers at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. They have produced a number of short and mid-length feature films, that have been selected to some of the world finest film festivals (Cannes, Berlinale, Sundance, Toronto), and are now producing their first features. 

Kaktus Film
Character Animation & VFX

Kaktus Film is one of Sweden’s most experienced and acclaimed 3D animation, visual effects and motion design studios. Kaktus Film produces high end animation in a wide range of fields such as feature film, music videos, branding and commercials. Recently, Kaktus Film produced all the vfx for the Swedish sci-fi film, Aniara, which won them the 2019 Guldbagge award (Swedish Oscar) for Best Visual Effects.