Rory Kennedy
director / producer

Rory Kennedy is an Academy Award-nominated, Primetime Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker. 

She has made over thirty films, including DOWNFALL: The Case Against Boeing, Last Days in Vietnam, and Ethel, all of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

Her most recent film, THE VOLCANO: Rescue From Whakaari, was released on Netflix in December 2022 and was the #1 Netflix film in the world during its release week.

Her films have appeared on the major streamers and broadcast networks including Netflix, HBO, National Geographic and PBS.  Her work has been profiled in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, and she has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Today Show, CNN, and NPR. 

Kennedy recently served two terms as Governor of AMPAS. She is the founder of Climate Emergency Fund.

  • In 2017, Kennedy completed Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton a feature documentary about the life of legendary big wave surfer Laird Hamilton. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and was distributed theatrically through IFC. In 2014, Kennedy made the PBS/American Experience feature documentary Last Days in Vietnam. Nominated for an Academy Award, the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went into wide theatrical release in the fall of that year. In 2012, Kennedy made the HBO feature documentary ETHEL chronicling the extraordinary life of her mother, Ethel Kennedy. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards.

    In 2011, Kennedy produced Killing in the Name, which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Short. In 2009, she Executive Produced Street Fight, which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature.

    In 2007, her film Ghosts of Abu Ghraib premiered at Sundance and went on to win a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Special. Her other projects include Bobby Fisher Against the World (2011), Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech (2009) and The Fence (2010). Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, and she’s appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Today Show, CNN and NPR.

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Talent Agency
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Personal Appearance Inquiries
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Climate Work
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Mark Bailey
writer / producer

Mark Bailey is a four-time Emmy-nominated writer and producer who has worked on a variety of award-winning documentaries. Bailey’s films have been broadcast on HBO, PBS, National Geographic, Hulu, Discovery Channel, Lifetime Television, A & E, Court TV and TLC. His films have been shown at numerous festivals including Sundance, NY Film Festival, Tribeca, AFI, Hot Docs and Full Frame.

Bailey is presently writing and producing a feature documentary for Netflix focused on the Boeing 737 Max airplane crashes. In 2018, Bailey wrote/produced Above and Beyond: NASA’s Journey to Tomorrow, a feature documentary that premiered at the National Air & Space Museum as part of AFI Docs. The film was broadcast on the Discovery Channel and released theatrically through Fathom Events. 

  • In 2017, Bailey wrote/produced Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton a feature documentary about the life of legendary big wave surfer Laird Hamilton. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and was distributed theatrically through IFC. In 2015, Bailey’s documentary, Last Days in Vietnam, was nominated for an Academy Award and Bailey himself was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Best Nonfiction Writing and a WGA Award for Best Documentary Screenplay. That same year he was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy in Outstanding Historical Programming for his producing work on the PBS series Makers: Women Who Make America.

    In 2012, Bailey was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Best Nonfiction Writing for the feature documentary Ethel and won the Humanitas Prize for Documentary Writing for the same film. Some of Bailey’s other films include the Emmy Award-winning Ghosts Of Abu Ghraib, the five-part series Pandemic: Facing AIDS, for which Bailey was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy, and American Hollow, nominated for an Emmy Award and an Independent Spirit Award.

    In addition to documentary work, Bailey has authored five books: a collection of immigrant stories, Nine Irish Lives (Algonquin Books, 2018), a social history of Hollywood, Of All The Gin Joints (Algonquin Books, 2014), a children’s book, Tiny Pie (Running Press, 2012), a cocktail guide, Hemingway & Bailey’s Bartending Guide to Great American Writers (Algonquin Books, 2006), and a journalistic account of an impoverished Appalachian family, American Hollow (Little, Brown & Co., 1999).

    In 1999, Bailey served as a Senior Teaching Fellow at Harvard College working for Pulitzer Prize Winner, Dr. Robert Coles. Bailey taught “The Literature of Social Reflection” and received the Derek Bok Excellence in Teaching Award.

 
 
 
 
 
 

Judy Korin
Producer

Judy builds and leads creative teams, fusing her deep experience in graphic design and filmmaking to create visually powerful and socially impactful works. Currently, Judy is producing a feature length documentary film about the global refugee crisis with Moxie Films.

Judy produced Rebel Hearts, which made its world premiere in the US documentary competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and is now streaming on Discovery+ and The Great Hack (Netflix, 2019), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, made the Academy Award shortlist, was BAFTA-, Grierson- and Emmy-nominated, and won a Cinema Eye Honors Award.

  • She also co-produced Bending the Arc (Sundance 2017, currently on Netflix), directed the International Documentary Association and Emmy Award nominee A Century of Women (1994) and produced the indie scripted feature Finding Neighbors (2013). A six-time Emmy nominee, her films have received support from Sundance, the Catapult Film Fund, Film Independent, XTR, quiet, Level Forward, and Impact Partners among others. Judy received her MFA from the University of Southern California Schoolof Cinematic Arts, and her BA from Wesleyan University. She has taught filmmaking to low income middle and high school students at Venice Arts, and to college students at New York Film Academy/Los Angeles and Otis College of Art & Design.

 

Alexandra Korba
Producer

Alexandra most recently worked as producer on the 4-part HBO/Max series The Synanon Fix, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2024.

Prior to that, she line produced the feature-length documentary Adrift about the global refugee system, which premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival in 2023. In 2022, she was associate producer on the Moxie Films and Imagine Documentaries co-production, DOWNFALL: The Case Against Boeing, which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, and is available on Netflix now.

Alexandra is a graduate of American University’s School of International Service and School of Communication with concentrations in global conflict and film/media. She is a member of Women in Film and the Documentary Producers Alliance.

  • She has previously worked at National Geographic Channel, National Geographic Society and Paramount Pictures. She has also worked as a consultant at the Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, the Golden Globe Awards and the Emmy Awards. Alexandra has volunteered with United Nations Women Los Angeles and Las Fotos Project Los Angeles, mentoring local teenage photographers.

 
 
 

Dallas Brennan Rexer
Producer

Dallas has been producing award-winning documentaries for over 20 years. She recently produced Paper & Glue, a feature documentary directed by the French artist JR about the power of art. Dallas previously wrote and co-produced with Liz Garbus and Story Syndicate The Innocence Files: The Witness--Making Memory for Netflix. Prior to that, she worked with Liz Garbus and Jenny Carchman at Radical Media as the story producer for Showtime's Emmy-nominated series The Fourth Estate -- following The New York Times' coverage of Donald Trump's first year in office. She also story-produced Showtime’s follow-up Emmy-nominated short The Family Business: Trump and Taxes, about The New York Times investigation into the Trump family’s fraudulent tax schemes.

  • Dallas has written and story-produced documentary series for Jeff Cooperman/National Geographic (Generation X) and Joe Berlinger/The Paramount Channel (Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio) and produced numerous award-winning feature-length documentaries on a variety of topics, including: Christy Turlington Burns’ No Woman, No Cry (Tribeca Film Festival, OWN) about the maternal health crisis around the world; Academy-award winner Carol Dysinger’s Camp Victory, Afghanistan (SXSW, public television) about American National Guard soldiers who mentored young Afghan National Army recruits; Kirsten Johnson and Katy Chevigny’s Emmy-nominated Deadline (Sundance Film Festival, NBC) about Illinois governor George Ryan’s historic decision to commute the state’s death sentences; Andrew Walton’s Arctic Son (Full Frame Film Festival, POV) about a traditional Gwich’in hunter and his estranged rebel teenage son who are reunited in a remote Arctic village; Katy Chevigny’s Election Day (SXSW Film Festival, POV) a day-in-the-life portrait of America’s 2004 election day; and Phil Bertelsen’s Outside Looking In: Transracial Adoption in America (ITVS).

    She has Executive Produced and consulted on numerous other documentary projects. Dallas is a 1997/98 Fulbright Scholar who conducted research on television and national identity in Trinidad, West Indies. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College’s Philosophy Department and is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures.

 

Kate Lewin Hilgenberg
Producer

Kate has been working in Production Management for over 20 years. Starting in Live Events for MTV and VH1 and then moving to documentaries series and films for HBO, Netflix, National Geographic, and many others. Kate recently line produced the film Aftershock with directors Tonya Lewis Lee and Paula Eiselt, several documentary series and films with Director Ricki Stern, such as Surviving Death, and is currently working with Moxie Films on a film for Netflix.