Tamar Lando, director and producer
Tamar Lando is a documentary photographer/filmmaker and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Her photographs of the Mimbres River Valley, NM, can be seen on her photography website here. Several images from this series were exhibited at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles, as part of the program Women in a Man's World: Filming the Modern Cowboy. Her short film, OUR MOTHER THE MOUNTAIN, screened at Sheffield. LAND WITH NO RIDER is her debut feature.
judith mizrachy, producer
Judith Mizrachy is a New York City-based independent producer. In 2022, her film THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT (directors Anne Alvergue & Debra McClutchy/ producing partner Beth Levison) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released globally on Netflix on the 50th anniversary of Watergate. The film was nominated for a 2023 Academy Award® for Best Short Documentary. Her previous film THE BOOKSELLERS (director D.W. Young), a behind-the-scenes look at the rare book world, premiered at the New York Film Festival in 2019. Most recently, her film UNCROPPED (director D.W. Young), about the Village Voice photojournalist James Hamilton, premiered as the 2023 Centerpiece at DOC NYC, was released theatrically in 2024, and named one of the Best Documentaries of the Year by Variety, Vogue and others. Her films have screened at festivals including Sundance, NYFF, Hot Docs and SXSW. Her work has been shown on big screens around the world including Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, TIFF Bell Lightbox, and Bertha DocHouse London, and on small screens via Netflix, The Criterion Channel, The New Yorker and more.
HUNTER ROBERT BAKER, PRODUCER
Hunter Robert Baker is an Emmy® Award winning feature film, television, and commercial producer and director of photography. His work has also been nominated for 4 Emmy® Awards. Hunter has worked on Navajo Nation for over a decade bringing powerful stories from the frontline of desert communities to the front pages of publications and media outlets globally. Hunter is the founder of Turquoise Horse, a production company focused on underreported stories and voices not often heard from around the world.
Most recently, Baker worked in the Northern Alaskan Arctic Circle with the Inupiaq tribe, on the award-winning fiction anthology series HBO’s True Detective: Night Country, Starring Jodi Foster and Kali Reis. The series received 19 Emmy® Award nominations including Best Anthology Series and Best Cinematography and three Golden Globe Awards including Best Limited Series.
beth levison, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Levison is an Emmy and Peabody-winning producer/director. She is also an Academy Award nominee for THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT (Netflix 2022), a documentary short and her most recent producing effort (alongside producer Judith Mizrachy) that premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and tells the story of an unlikely Watergate whistleblower who was gaslighted out of history. Her previous film, "Storm Lake", which she directed/produced alongside director/DP Jerry Risius, premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, won the Audience Award at AFI DOCS, and broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens. Other producing credits include "Women in Blue" (Independent Lens, 2020), Emmy-nominated "Made in Boise" (Independent Lens, 2019), Emmy nominated "Personal Statement"(PBS, 2018), and "32 Pills" (HBO, 2017). Levison is the founder of Hazel Pictures, a co-founder of the Documentary Producers Alliance, producing faculty with the School of Visual Arts MFA program in Social Documentary Film, and a member of the Academy.
