Jim Miller has been the executive director of Brave New Films since 2006. Most recently he Executive Produced the award-winning short subject documentary Suppressed: The Fight to Vote.
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Megan Twohey is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times and co-author of the bestselling book SHE SAID: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement. The book takes readers behind the scenes of Twohey and Jodi Kantor's 2017 investigation of Harvey Weinstein, which helped trigger the global reckoning on sexual misconduct. The investigation shared in the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service as well as the George Polk award for national reporting, and won many other prizes.
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Ken Paulson is a journalist, lawyer and educator who has combined these roles as an advocate and expert on the First Amendment. He’s the director of the Free Speech Center and the former editor of USA Today, where he remains a columnist writing about First Amendment issues.
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All Around Artsy was founded in 2009 by Kira Bursky, an award-winning filmmaker on a journey to explore perceptions of reality with each of her magic fueled films and projects.
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EMMY and Peabody award-winning filmmaker Susan Koch directs, produces, and write documentaries and non-fiction programming for worldwide distribution.
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With decades of award-winning experience in public affairs, public policy and outreach roles, Ms. Marshall is a seasoned facilitator whose passion is tempered by a pragmatic approach to achieving common goals that make communities stronger.
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Bedonna Smith is Executive Producer of Activism at Anonymous Content. In this role, Bedonna serves as a connector with the company’s association with Emerson Collective, a social change organization.
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Stephen Brower has worked in A&R and marketing for the iconic Vanguard and Sugar Hill Records labels, and also founded the Easy Sound Recording Company indie rock label.
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River Whyless, the North Carolina-bred folk-rock outfit has discovered their evolution is a subtler albeit monumentally important one.
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Shaye Moessner is the Director of Markets & Strategies for SameSide, the platform for activism through music, arts, and culture.
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Ehren Cruz is the Artistic Director & Co-Event Director for LEAF Community Arts, a non-profit that has for 24 years has served WNC with a mission to connect cultures, create community, and enrich lives through music & arts.
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Ashley Cooper believes in the goodness of humans — in our abilities to collaboratively address the complex challenges we face and care for one another along the way.
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Ashley Cooper believes in the goodness of humans — in our abilities to collaboratively address the complex challenges we face and care for one another along the way.
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Ben Rekhi is an award-winning filmmaker of mixed Indian and American descent. After working with the Coen bros. in the camera department of O Brother, Where Art Thou? Rekhi was hired by George Clooney to shoot the behind the scenes for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
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Lana Garland has worked as a Creative Director, Director, and Writer/Producer in television and film in the US and Europe, creating content for HBO, BET, and ESPN in America, and TV2 in Denmark.
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Alli Marshall is the the arts editor of the Asheville-based alternative newsweekly Mountain Xpress. She’s also a poet, fiction writer, and spoken word artist. She’s the author of the 2015 novel How to Talk to Rockstars, the 2017 chapbook It All Comes Rushing Back, and a number of zines.
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Brenda Lunsford Lilly is a professor in the Film and Television Program at Western Carolina University where she served as Interim Director in 2014 and has directed a number of stage productions.
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In 2016, Capone returned to her hometown of Asheville, NC to record her first solo EP Orbit at Echo Mountain Recording Studios. Following the release of Orbit, Capone achieved notable success; she was named New Song Music's LEAF Festival Singer-Songwriter winner, performed alongside Andy Palmer at Kennedy Center and competed in New Song Music's songwriting competition at Lincoln Center. She has opened for such artists as Kevin Devine, Nicole Atkins, Erika Wennerstrom and Mason Jennings. She’s performed at Leaf Festival, Asheville Pride, and was the winner of 2017's New Song Singer-Songwriter Competition.
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