Samantha (Sam) Knowles '12 is an award-winning Brooklyn-based filmmaker. Her film How We Get Free on HBO has most recently been shortlisted for a 2024 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film, and highlights the incredible work of Elisabeth Epps to abolish cash bail and end the criminalization of poverty. She has been listed on the DOC NYC 40 Under 40 List for 2023, which honors and celebrates emerging talent in the documentary world. Samatha has been working in documentary film for the past decade on documentaries for HBO, Netflix, The New York Times, ESPN, the Discovery Channel, PBS, Showtime and BET. She is a Dartmouth College alum (cum laude) with dual degrees in Film and Psychology, and is currently directing a forthcoming documentary series for Disney and Imagine.

Jason Maloney '91 is an award-winning cameraman, editor and news and documentary producer specializing in foreign affairs coverage. His work has appeared on ABC, CBC, CBS, CNN, Discovery, HDNet, PBS, Nytimes.com and Time.com. He teaches courses on multimedia production and international crisis reporting. In 2014, he launched GlobalBeat, NYU's international reporting program that brings graduate students overseas for hands-on video reporting. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Directors Guild of America. Jason is the co-author of Your America, published July 2008 by Palgrave MacMillan. Jason holds a BA from Dartmouth College and a Masters from the London School of Economics.

Kate Novack '94 is an Emmy-nominated writer, director and producer of documentaries. Her film Hysterical Girl (New York Times Op-Docs), revisiting Sigmund Freud's only major case history of a female patient, was shortlisted for an Academy Award and nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing. Kate's feature The Gospel According to Andre (Magnolia Pictures) was named one of the top ten Queer films of the year by Indiewire. She wrote and produced Page One: Inside the New York Times (Magnolia Pictures, Participant Media), A Table In Heaven (HBO) and The Guy Who Got Cut Wrong, featuring the Soviet-Jewish novelist Gary Shteyngart.

Alexander Stockton '15 is a journalist and a filmmaker for New York Times Opinion. He's been awarded two Emmy awards, for "Heartache in the Hot Zone," a video dispatch from a hospital during the pandemic, and for a video investigation called "The Taliban Promised Them Amnesty. Then They Executed Them." Previously, Alex worked on "VICE News Tonight" on HBO. While at Dartmouth, Alex wrote and directed a fiction feature film called Transient, which premiered at the 2016 Beverly Hills Film Festival. Alex double-majored in Film Studies and Economics, and studied abroad in Scotland. He lives in San Francisco.

Harriette Yahr '87 is a filmmaker and educator. Her experience in film is wide-ranging and includes screenwriting, directing, producing, editing, cinematography, and journalism. Her film work has been screened at film festivals internationally, including the Telluride Film Festival. Harriette teaches filmmaking and screenwriting, as well as Oral Histories and Digital Storytelling, a course that merges theory with creative media exploration (video, podcasts, web-based storytelling). She is currently working on an animated short that is taking her down new, expressive roads (including with AI) and is developing a program for Dartmouth students at the Sundance Film Festival, which had its first iteration in 2024. She also enjoys making pop-up books and has been awarded the Dartmouth Book Arts prize.