The Team
Emily James
Emily James is an award winning filmmaker known for her inventive storytelling. She trained in documentary directing at the U.K. National Film and Television School and has spent 20 years working in the factual sector. She’s produced and directed cutting edge factual tv and film for everyone from the BBC to VICE. She has helmed two successful feature docs, and a number of award winning tv series. She has also made a few ads and done some branded content along the way. She’s worked in development for a number of TV indies and run development and production teams for on-line platforms and ad agencies. Amongst her achievements, she made the seminal film about the dark web market place Silk Road, and The Guardian once wrote “Emily James is a genius”. Which was nice of them.
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. His latest novels are PICKS AND SHOVELS and THE BEZZLE (followups to RED TEAM BLUES) and THE LOST CAUSE, a solarpunk science fiction novel of hope amidst the climate emergency. His most recent nonfiction book is THE INTERNET CON: HOW TO SEIZE THE MEANS OF COMPUTATION, a Big Tech disassembly manual. He is the author of the international young adult LITTLE BROTHER series. He is also the author of CHOKEPOINT CAPITALISM (with Rebecca Giblin), about creative labor markets and monopoly; HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, nonfiction about conspiracies and monopolies; and of RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY, science fiction for adults, a YA graphic novel called IN REAL LIFE; and other young adult novels like PIRATE CINEMA. His first picture book was POESY THE MONSTER SLAYER (Aug 2020). His next novel is THE BEZZLE (February 2024). He maintains a daily blog at Pluralistic.net. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University, a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. In 2022, he earned the Sir Arthur Clarke Imagination in Service to Society Awardee for lifetime achievement. In 2024, the Media Ecology Association awarded him the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. York University (Canada) made him an Honourary Doctor of Laws; and the Open University (UK) made him an Honourary Doctor of Computer Science.
Kurt Engfehr
Kurt Engfehr is an Emmy award-winning producer and editor, best known for his work on Michael Moore’s Oscar-winning Bowling For Columbine for which Kurt won the American Cinema Editors award for best documentary editing, and the Cannes Palme d’Or winning, box-office hit, Fahrenheit 9/11. Through his career, Kurt has edited, produced and directed countless film and television docs. Kurt co-directed The Yes Men Fix The World which aired on HBO and won the audience award at the Berlin Film Festival, and directed Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead, a humorous doc about weight loss and self-realization that became a world-wide sensation seen on Netflix, CNN and other outlets in 17 countries. Hi work on the HBO news show Axios secured him his Emmy.
Eve Marson
Eve Marson was most recently the showrunner for the following Netflix documentary series: What’s Next? The Future with Bill Gates (2024); Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet (2022); the Emmy-nominated Turning Point: 9/11 and The War on Terror (2021); and The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez (2020). Eve was a producer on the feature documentary Fed Up with journalist Katie Couric. Her directorial feature debut, Dr. Feelgood: Healer or Dealer, premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June 2016. She has worked on a wide variety of documentary projects, including independent feature films and programming for Netflix, ESPN 30for30, PBS, Discovery Channel and Animal Planet. Eve has also created a large library of short-form documentary work in collaboration with GOOD Inc. and other social-action organizations. She has directed and field produced in countries around the world including Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, China, Japan, Bosnia, Ukraine, Russia, Germany, Czech Republic, Ecuador and Peru. Eve was born and raised in New York City and received her B.A. from Harvard University.