Tamar Lando, Director and Producer

Tamar Lando is a documentary photographer/filmmaker and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Her photographs of the Mimbres River Valley, NM, can be seen on her photography website here. Several images from this series were exhibited at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles, as part of the program Women in a Man's World: Filming the Modern Cowboy. Her short film, OUR MOTHER THE MOUNTAIN, screened at Sheffield. LAND WITH NO RIDER is her debut feature.

Judith Mizrachy, Producer

Judith Mizrachy is a New York City-based independent producer. In 2022, her film THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT (directors Anne Alvergue & Debra McClutchy/producing partner Beth Levison) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released globally on Netflix on the 50th anniversary of Watergate. The film was nominated for a 2023 Academy Award® for Best Short Documentary. Her previous film THE BOOKSELLERS (director D.W. Young), a behind-the-scenes look at the rare book world, premiered at the New York Film Festival in 2019. Most recently, her film UNCROPPED (director D.W. Young), about the Village Voice photojournalist James Hamilton, premiered as the 2023 Centerpiece at DOC NYC, was released theatrically in 2024, and named one of the Best Documentaries of the Year by Variety, Vogue and others. Her films have screened at festivals including Sundance, NYFF, Hot Docs and SXSW. Her work has been shown on big screens around the world including Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, TIFF Bell Lightbox, and Bertha DocHouse London, and on small screens via Netflix, The Criterion Channel, The New Yorker and more.

Hunter Robert Baker, Producer

Hunter Robert Baker is an Emmy® Award winning feature film, television, and commercial producer and director of photography. His work has also been nominated for 4 Emmy® Awards. Hunter has worked on Navajo Nation for over a decade bringing powerful stories from the frontline of desert communities to the front pages of publications and media outlets globally. Hunter is the founder of Turquoise Horse, a production company focused on underreported stories and voices not often heard from around the world.

 Most recently, Baker worked in the Northern Alaskan Arctic Circle with the Inupiaq tribe, on the award-winning fiction anthology series HBO’s True Detective: Night Country, Starring Jodi Foster and Kali Reis. The series received 19 Emmy® Award nominations including Best Anthology Series and Best Cinematography and three Golden Globe Awards including Best Limited Series.

Beth Levison, Executive Producer

Beth Levison is a Peabody and Emmy award-winning executive producer/producer/director based in NYC. Her 2022 producing effort, THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT, premiered at Sundance, launched on Netflix, and was nominated for an Academy Award® (Best Documentary Short).  Her previous film, STORM LAKE (Independent Lens, 2022), which she directed alongside Jerry Risius and also produced, was Emmy Award and Peabody-nominated.  Other producing credits include the Independent Spirit Awards-winning A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY (a Kino Lorber release, 2025), WOMEN IN BLUE (Independent Lens, 2021) and 32 PILLS (HBO, 2017).  Executive producer credits include LAND WITH NO RIDER (True/False, 3035), the 2-time BIFA-winning GRAND THEFT HAMLET (MUBI, 2025), 3-time IDA Awards nominee, MY SWEET LAND (Sheffield, 2024) and WITH PETER BRADLEY (PBS, 2024). Levison is the owner of Hazel Pictures, teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, co-founded the Documentary Producers Alliance, and is a member of the Academy.