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

Cora Atkinson is a seasoned award-winning filmmaker who Co-Produced Summer of Soul, which received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2022, and earned a Grammy, Peabody, and Sundance prizes, among other awards. Cora has produced four films for ESPN’s critically acclaimed series 30 for 30, including Jeanette Lee Vs., which chronicles the life of the Asian-American billiards player nicknamed “The Black Widow,” who became one of the most recognizable figures in sports. Cora is currently the Supervising Producer for Words + Pictures Productions where she develops and produces features and series across the company’s breadth of documentary projects. Cora has worked with some of the world’s top media companies including RadicalMedia, VICELAND, Discovery, National Geographic and Viacom. At VICELAND she worked on the series and cult favorite Balls Deep which highlighted subcultures all around the United States, culminating in the final episode featuring the First Lady of the United States of America Mrs. Michelle Obama. The episode followed homeless veterans finding permanent housing due to the first lady’s initiative surrounding Veterans and ending homelessness.

Jonathan Hall
Producer

Jonathan Hall is a New York-based creative storyteller working in feature length, episodic and short-form non-fiction content. His first film, Whose Streets 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. His second film, In Our Mother’s Gardens was acquired by Ava Duvernay’s ARRAY distribution collective, both films are currently streaming on NETFLIX. Jonathan worked on the multi-episode docuseries, The Captain, produced by 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, and The Smithsonian Institute. 

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.