2013 Lab Leaders
Scott Macaulay, Producer (Raising Victor Vargas), Editor-in-Chief, Filmmaker Magazine
Joana Vicente, Producer (Welcome to the Dollhouse, Coffee and Cigarettes), IFP Executive Director
Jon Reiss, Filmmaker, Author (Bomb It, Think Outside The Box Office)
Lori Cheatle, Producer (51 Birch Street, The Edge of Dreaming)
Maureen A. Ryan, Producer, Author (The Gates ; co-producer Man on Wire and Project Nim; Producer to Producer)
Susan Stover, Producer (Welcome to the Dollhouse, High Art, Happy Accidents)
Past Mentors
Editors
Tricia Cooke (The Big Lebowski), Carol Dysinger (Camp Victory, Afghanistan), Penelope Falk (Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work), Andrew Hafitz (Bully); Sabine Hoffman (The Private Lives of Pippa Lee), Brian Kates (Shortbus), Nancy Kennedy (Why We Fight), Mary Lampson (Harlan County USA), Mary Manhardt (American Teen), Jonathan Oppenheim (Paris is Burning), Lee Percy (Boys Don’t Cry), Sam Pollard (When the Levees Broke), Nat Sanders (Humpday), Marc Vives (Putty Hill), John W. Walter (Capitalism: A Love Story), Adam Zucker (Carol Channing: Larger Than Life)
Music Composers
Mychael Danna (Moneyball), T. Griffin (Children of Invention), Nathan Larson (The Kids are Alright); David Mansfield (Transamerica), Peter Nashel (New York, I Love You); David Torn (Lars and the Real Girl). Music Supervisor Barry Cole (Notorious; Trouble the Water)
Finishing & Post-Production Strategy
Deluxe New York, Dig It Audio, Edgeworx Studios, Final Frame, Gigantic Post, Goldcrest Post New York, Sound Lounge
Marketing & Outreach Strategy
Jeanne Berney (Drive); Caitlin Boyle, Film Sprout (If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front); Clare Ann Darragh & Lina Plath, Frank PR; Adam Kersh & Tom Cunha, Brigade Marketing (Hump Day); Paola Freccero, Crowdstarter (A Letter to Elia); Elisabeth Holm,Kickstarter, Sara Kiener & Merrill Sterritt, Film Presence (Crazy Horse); Marian Koltai-Levine & Freida Orange, PMK*BNC (Bass Ackwards), Caspar Newbolt, Version Industries (Here); Reid Rosefelt (Damsels in Distress); Marc Schiller, Bond Influence (Brooklyn Castle); Mother New York
Distribution Strategy
Richard Abramowitz, Abramorama (Anvil! The Story of Anvil); Joshua Blum, Washington Square Films (Francine), Josh Braun, Submarine Entertainment (Man on Wire); Jim Browne, Argot Pictures (Street Fight); Barbara Caver,HBO Documentary Films; Julie Goldman, Motto Pictures (Buck); Diana Holtzberg, Films Transit (The Most Dangerous Man in America); Ryan Kampe & Aida LiPera, Visit Films (Myth of the American Sleepover); Dylan Marchetti, Variance Films (Red Hook Summer); Erick Opeka, Cinedigm (In Our Nature); Erin Owens, Long Shot Factory (Being Elmo); Steven Raphael, Required Viewing (Ballast); Todd Sklar, Range Life Entertainment (Exit Through The Gift Shop); Ronna Wallace, Eastgate Pictures (Restless City); Lance Weiler (Head Trauma)
Documentary One-to-One Mentors
Doug Block (director, The Kids Grow Up), Lori Cheatle (Producer, The Kids Grow Up), Sam Cullman (director, If A Tree Falls), Marshall Curry (director, If a Tree Falls), Robinson Devor (Director, Zoo), Danae Elon (director, Partly Private), Ross Kauffman (director/producer Born Into Brothels), James Longley (director, Iraq in Fragments), Joe Lovett (director, Going Blind), Meg McLagan (director, Lioness), Andrea Meditch (executive producer, Grizzly Man), Michel Negroponte (director, I’m Dangerous With Love), Ian Olds (director, Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi), Julia Reichert (Director, Seeing Red), Esther Robinson (director, A Walk into the Sea), Nancy Roth (producer, Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi), Ira Sachs (director, Keep the Lights On), Daria Sommers (Director, Lioness), Jennifer Maytorena Taylor (director, New Muslim Cool), Lynn True (Director, Summer Pasture), Cynthia Wade (director, Freeheld), Marco Williams (director, Two Towns of Jasper)
Narrative One-to-One Mentors
Karin Chien (producer, Circumstance), Lisa Cortes (exec. producer, Precious), Katherine Dieckmann (director, Motherhood), Larry Fessenden (producer, The Innkeepers), Ryan Fleck (director, Half Nelson), Howard Gertler, (producer, Shortbus), Barry Jenkins, (director, Medicine for Melancholy), Lars Knudsen & Jay Van Hoy (producers, Beginners), Neil LaBute (director, Death at a Funeral), Joshua Marston (director, Maria Full of Grace), Kyle Martin (producer, Tiny Furniture), Gretchen McGowan, (producer The Limits of Control), Josh Mond (producer, Martha Marcy May Marlene), Peter Phok (producer, The Innkeepers), Matthew Porterfield (director, Putty Hill), Mike S. Ryan (exec. producer, Meek’s Cutoff), Mary Jane Skalski (producer, Win Win), Frida Torresblanco (producer, Pan’s Labyrinth), Alicia Van Couvering (producer, Tiny Furniture), David & Nathan Zellner (director/producer, Goliath)

