Out in the Night

blair dorosh-walther is an award-winning documentary director, activist, and artist passionate about inspiring action for social justice. Their first feature-length documentary Out in the Night had its international premiere at the 2014 Los Angeles Film Festival with a simultaneous broadcast on POV and Logo in 2015.

G. Chesler's (they/them) films focus on gender, racial justice, health, and sexuality. Their latest feature Connection | Isolation features transgender lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. G. is a 2024 PGA Create Fellow for their work on Intersex Justice and serves as a professor of film and gender studies at George Mason University.

Yoruba Richen is a 2012 Guggenheim fellow who has worked as a journalist and a documentary filmmaker in New York City. Her film Promised Land, a documentary about race, reconciliation, and land reform in post-apartheid South Africa, was broadcast on PBS’s POV in 2010. In 2007, Yoruba won a Fulbright award in filmmaking and traveled to Salvador, Brazil to produce a documentary uncovering the origins of a festival celebrating the end of slavery. Before going to Brazil, Richen was a producer for the independent television and radio program Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman, and was also associate producer in the investigative department of ABC News. In addition, she was co-producer of Take It From Me, a documentary exploring the effects of welfare reform on New York City women which was broadcast on POV. Her documentary The New Black, exposing the complicated histories of the African American and LGBT civil rights movements, airs on Independent Lens in 2014.

Mridu Chandra is a New York-based filmmaker and producer of award-winning documentaries and fiction films that cover topics of civil rights, environmental and racial justice, and gender equality. Recent projects include producing Becoming Cousteau (BAFTA nominee for Best Documentary) and Cured (Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Research).