The Devil’s Advocate

Hilke Schellmann is a video journalist for The Wall Street Journal Digital Network and spearheads video coverage as a "one woman band." She has worked as a coordinating producer for National Geographic Television and on documentaries for the American Undercover series on HBO. Schellmann, together with Habiba Nosheen, produced a half-hour special on surrogacy that aired on the Emmy-award winning show NOW on PBS in September 2009. For this investigative documentary they received a SAJA Award and the Leslie Sander Prize for Social Justice. Schellmann’s work has been appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Glamour, Time magazine, and The Atlantic, as well as on German public television and WYNC. Schellmann is a German native and a former Fulbright fellow. In Germany she worked as a staff producer for the science documentary show Galileo Mystery. She holds a master's degree in cultural theory from Humboldt University (Berlin) and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.

Habiba Nosheen is a Pakistani filmmaker and a journalist based in New York. Her radio documentary What Happened at Dos Erres? aired on This American Life and was called "a masterpiece of storytelling" by The New Yorker. Previously, she shot and produced the PBS films Surrogacy: Wombs for Rent? and To Adopt a Child. Nosheen teaches at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She is fluent in English, Urdu, Hindi, and Punjabi, with conversational knowledge of French. Born in Lahore, Pakistan she immigrated to Canada with her family at the age of nine. She has reported extensively from South Asia. Nosheen works in print, radio, and television documentaries. Her stories have been published in The New York Times, Time magazine, Glamour, and Washington Post, and on PBS, CBC, BBC, and NPR. Nosheen has received numerous prestigious awards for her reporting including: 2012 Silver Prize for Best Documentary by the Third Coast Festival, the 2012 Gracie award for Outstanding Reporter/Correspondent, a Gemini nomination, the South Asian Journalist Association Award, the Morton Mintz Award for International Reporting, and the Leslie Sanders Award. She was part of the team that won the Best Canadian Feature Award at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. She holds a master’s degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and a master’s degree from York University in Women's Studies.