Filmmakers

Alexandra Norris
Director

Alexandra Norris is a multichannel media creator and producer whose work currently focuses on climate action, social justice, and politics. She is the Producer of Alive Inside, which won the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for U.S. Documentary, sold to Netflix, and was released in theaters nationwide. Since Alive Inside, Alex has produced two additional non-fiction feature films – State of Eugenics, which was acquired by and aired on PBS and In Our Mothers’ Gardens, which was acquired by Ava Duvernay’s distribution collective ARRAY and is streaming on Netflix. Earlier in her career Alex concentrated her efforts in publicity and distribution, serving as the lead on campaigns for Image Entertainment and Anchor Bay Entertainment, among others.  She led U.S. distribution for Teza – the last dramatic feature from celebrated Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima – and led publicity for the home entertainment release of Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer and Da Sweet Blood of Jesus. Alex has produced numerous Telly and Webby award-winning projects for Fortune 50 brands, episodic documentary work for MTV and VICE Media. 

Cora Atkinson
Producer

Jonathan Hall
Producer

Producer, Jonathan Hall is a New York-based creative storyteller working in feature length, episodic and short-form non-fiction content. Jonathan started his career as the Associate Producer on Whose Streets? which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and went on to be nominated for several awards including a Peabody, Independent Spirit Award, and NAACP Award for best documentary film. He was a producer on In Our Mothers’ Gardens which was acquired by Ava Duvernay’s ARRAY distribution collective and streamed on Netflix. Jonathan also produced on the multi-episode docuseries, The Captain, from ESPN and Spike Lee, focused on the life and career of New York Yankee and MLB Hall of Famer, Derek Jeter. The series premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival and was later released on HULU. He also has directed and produced branded and commercial work for a range of Fortune 500 brands and organizations including Verizon, Maker’s Mark, TED, Grubhub, Climate Power, and The Smithsonian Institute.

Lucy Sexton
Producer

Lucy Sexton is an award-winning creative writer who has produced and developed work for HBO, Netflix, Showtime, ESPN, PBS, CNN, Rolling Stone, and Documentary+. She worked on the inaugural season of Alex Gibney and Robert Redford’s series Death Row Stories about the death penalty in America, the Emmy winning series Hostages about the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979, and a Dirty Money episode about the environmental activist and whistleblowers who exposed the egregious malfeasance of Formosa Plastics in Point Comfort, Texas. Her investigative journalism has contributed to an Emmy nominated Frontline feature, Terror in Little Saigon, and to a Pulitzer Prize winning series Disaster in the Pacific led by a talented team of journalists at ProPublica.

Shachar Langlev
Director of Photography

Shachar Langlev is an award-winning director and cinematographer whose films have screened around the country at the Sundance Film Festival, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and numerous Oscar-qualifying film festivals. He works across genres in documentary, fiction, and commercials. He lensed Alive Inside, which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014, sold to Netflix, and released in theaters nationwide. Shachar also had the honor of working closely with Nobel Peace prize winner Elie Wiesel, filming him at his home and capturing his notable, and final, public speech.

David Zieff
Editor

David Zieff has been crafting documentaries, feature films and television for three decades. Zieff most recently edited Matthew Heineman’s The First Wave, HBO documentary series The Vow and the official Gloria Gaynor Documentary Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive. David edited and produced the critically-acclaimed Paul Williams Still Alive, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, as well as Sundance nominees Crazy Love, winner of Best Documentary at the Independent Spirit Awards, Happy Valley, Amir Bar-Lev’s exploration of the Penn State scandal, ESPN’s Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks, and The Boy From Medellin. He also edited the Tribeca opening Time Is Illmatic about rap icon Nas’ landmark debut album, and Alive Inside, an exploration of music and memory that won the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for best documentary. David was a creative consultant of the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove, won a coveted Peabody Award for the documentary mini-series Black Magic and was supervising editor of the multiple-award-winning Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, shaping over 1,600 hours of footage into one of the most celebrated music films of all time. He has served as a creative advisor in the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Edit and Story Lab and has taught at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.