Jade Sacker is a documentary photographer and filmmaker currently based in New York.

She comes from a Native American family on her mother's side, now culturally displaced from their land. Her father's family descends from Russia, where they fled from the pogroms at the outset of the 20th Century. Her family struggled to talk about the past and all they had lost. As she grew older, she recognized that without understanding and accountability, there is no clear way to move forward and no sense of resolution.

The unifying theme of her long-term projects is migration, telling stories of those who are displaced and those whose identity is challenged. Her work is guided by the belief that writing, photography, and filmmaking are powerful mediums to provoke thought and effect enduring positive change. Her projects are intended to advocate for a more just and tolerant world.

She is currently in post-production for her first feature-length documentary, A House Divided, produced by John Legend’s production company, Get Lifted.

Ariel Granat is the Executive Director and CEO of Project Blue, leading the organization’s mission to build trust and foster collaboration between inner-city communities and law enforcement. Under her leadership, Project Blue aims to empower at-risk youth, strengthen community-police relationships, and inspire systemic change.

Before fully dedicating herself to Project Blue, Ariel served as Director of Fund Development and Communications for East Los Angeles Community Corporation (ELACC), where she successfully raised over eight figures to support the organization’s economic and social justice mission in Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles.

Ariel began her nonprofit career as a sophomore in college, working with the United Nations to create a psycho-social therapeutic model for the Rohingya Refugees while simultaneously managing World Information Transfer, an NGO in consultative status with the ECOSOC Council of the UN. She later transitioned to become Executive Director of the RSO Foundation, a private grant-making organization supporting animal welfare.

Throughout her career, Ariel has developed expertise in social media algorithms and influencer marketing, helping over 30 nonprofits gain traction and achieve their missions. She holds a BA in Cross-Cultural Psychology of Ideologies from Tufts University, with a minor in International Relations and Clinical Psychology.

Neil Sacker is an attorney and executive with over three decades of experience at the intersection of law, entertainment, and business development. Neil founded Sacker Entertainment Law, PC in 2022 (www.sackerentlaw.com), a leading entertainment law firm representing producers, financiers and production companies.

A graduate of Cornell and Yale Law School, Neil started his career at Warner Bros. Studios in 1991. In 1995, Neil joined Miramax Films and Dimension Films as Executive Vice President and head of Business and Legal Affairs where he negotiated the acquisition of rights to the “Lord of the Rings” franchise and worked on over 75 films, including “Scream”, “Good Will Hunting”, and the Academy Award winning “The English Patient”.

Following Miramax, Neil was the Chief Operating Officer at the Yari Film Group, where his responsibilities expanded beyond business & legal affairs to also cover oversight of the development and production of the film slate including the Academy Award-winning “Crash” and “The Illusionist”. Subsequently, Neil was the co-founder and President of The Film Department, which financed and produced notable films like “Law Abiding Citizen.”

Before founding Sacker Entertainment Law, Neil served

as an entertainment partner at top-tier law firms including Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

Carlos Valladares is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in Gagosian Quarterly, the San Francisco Chronicle, and n+1. He studied film and literature at Stanford University and earned his Masters of Arts and Philosophy at Yale. He is currently at work on his first screenplay and a dissertation on the French director Jacques Demy. Alexander Nemerov, head of the Stanford art history department and author of the experimental novel The Forest and a best-selling biography on Helen Frankenthaler, called Valladares a “one-of-a-kind student” who, in his words, is “the most natural young scholar of film I have ever encountered in 25 years of undergraduate teaching at Yale and at Stanford.” He lives in New York.