Ryan is a NY-based filmmaker with award-winning work recognized by the Academy Awards®, the Canadian Academy of Film and Television, Sundance, MoMa, IFP, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Berlinale. Recent films include producing credits on Sundance selection and Gotham Award winning Holy Rollers, God Of Love (Oscar® Winner Best Live Action Short), Doubles With Slight Pepper (TIFF Jury Prize and Canadian Academy Screen Award Winner), and the in-development Stephen King feature adaptation The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. Additional feature producing credits include The Girl is in Trouble Executive Produced by Spike Lee, Bastards of Young and the recently wrapped A Birder's Guide to Everything starring Academy-Award winner Sir Ben Kingsley.

He is a current Toronto Talent Labs, IFP Narrative Labs, and Berlinale Talent Campus film fellow and a member of the Cornell Communication Department Advisory Board.  His commercial work as a producer and director includes tv, digital and experiential programs for illy, BBC-America, Cisco, Absolut, Verizon Wireless and DirecTV.  Previously Ryan was a Director at the public relation/marketing agency Bratskeir & Company where he lead campaigns for Hasbro, Jim Beam, and L'Oreal.  An MFA-Candidate at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts he is a 2013 Fellow at the Cinema Research Institute where he is focused on storytelling at the cross-section of film, video games and technology.

Micah is a filmmaker and educator whose work focuses on forging unexpected connections between people and finding humanity in unforeseen places. Micah graduated from Stanford University with a degree in History/Anthropology and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guinea, West Africa. While in Guinea, Micah attended the Pan African Film Festival and was inspired to become a filmmaker. Upon his return to the U.S. he worked with Oscar-Winning documentarian Daniel Junge on several films, including Iron Ladies of Liberia (a BBC/PBS film which followed the first year in office of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first female president). Micah’s first feature documentary, Death of Two Sons, was awarded the HBO “Life Through Your Lens” Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award and was distributed through Netflix. Micah has also made films in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and India. Micah attended the MFA program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he wrote and directed several short narrative movies. (His short script On the Wall, slated for production later this year, received the Alfred. P. Sloan Foundation Production Award and the Spike Lee Production Award.) Micah is currently a Fellow at the Cinema Research Institute, where he is studying the future of the Co-Production and cross-border financing for independent film.

Originally from Richmond, Virginia, Michael graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in Film Studies in 2006, after having assistant directed Benh Zeitlin's first film egg (2004) and directed his own film Frame of Reference (2006). He served as Executive Producer on Court 13's Glory at Sea in 2007, concurrently working for the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C.; in 2008 he worked for Obama for America as a Field Organizer during the primaries, and as Ohio New Media Director during the general election. With Josh Penn and Dan Janvey, Michael produced Court 13’s first feature film, Beasts of the Southern Wild, directed by Benh Zeitlin. Beasts won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in January 2012 and the Camera d’Or at Cannes in May 2012; it was nominated for four Academy Awards – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Michael also produced documentary filmmakers the Ross Brothers’ second feature, Tchoupitoulas, which premiered at South by Southwest in March 2012 and was distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories in more than 25 cities in late 2012 and early 2013. Currently, he’s producing the Brothers’ third feature, Western, as well as Ping Pong Summer, an 80’s era coming of age comedy, directed by Michael Tully and starring a mix of undiscovered local teenagers and Lea Thompson, John Hannah, Amy Sedaris, Judah Friedlander, and Susan Sarandon.

Academy Award nominated producer Josh Penn’s films, including Beasts of the Southern Wild, have won over 50 awards internationally, including Sundance's Grand Jury Prize and Cannes' Camera d'Or. In addition, Josh received the Sundance & Indian Paintbrush Producer's Award and is a nominee for Outstanding Producer in this year's Producers Guild Awards. Upcoming projects include a stop-motion animated film by Henry Selick (Coraline, The Nightmare Before Christmas), the documentary Tchoupitoulas (Hotdocs-HBO Emerging Filmmaker Award), as well as several feature debuts of top emerging filmmakers. Josh previously worked as the Michigan New Media Director for President Obama's 2008 campaign and as Senior Program Manager for the re-election campaign.