Farmer/Veteran

Alix Blair is responsible for diverse body of documentary work exploring human rights and environmental issues through both photography and radio production. A recent graduate of the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, she documented a group of women living and farming on the edge of a gorilla sanctuary in southwestern Uganda for her Master’s Thesis. Her radio story The Last Morning Was a Sweet One won the 2013 ShortDoc award from the Third Coast International Audio Festival.

D.L. Anderson is co-founder of Vittles Films, a film company producing and promoting character-driven documentaries with the mission of “sustenance through storytelling.” After more than a decade as an award-winning documentary and editorial photographer, he began making documentary films as a student at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Past personal work includes Mr. Percy’s Run, a profile of moonshine kingpin and avid fox-hunter Percy Flowers, and Cook School, a behind-the-bars look at the only culinary program for prisoners in North Carolina, produced in partnership with the Southern Foodways Alliance.