Ursula Liang is an award-winning director and producer with 25 years of experience in storytelling. Her debut feature, 9-Man, was broadcast on public television and called “an absorbing documentary” by the New York Times. Her second film, Down a Dark Stairwell, had its premiere at True/False and was called “the most essential Asian American documentary in decades.” Her latest feature, Jeanette Lee Vs., is part of ESPN’s acclaimed 30 for 30 series while her most recent short, Two Strikes, aired on the iconic PBS series Frontline. Her work has been supported by ITVS, Ford Foundation, Sundance Institute, Firelight Media, Chicken & Egg Films, and the Center for Asian American Media. Before becoming a filmmaker, Ursula held staff positions at The New York Times Op-Docs, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, ESPN The Magazine, Asia Pacific Forum and Hyphen magazine. She also produced for television (UFC Primetime, NBC Spartan Ultimate Team Challenge). Ursula is a member of Film Fatales, A-DOC, IDD, and is the Vice President of Brown Girls Doc Mafia. She is from Newton, Mass. and currently freelances from Oakland, Calif. after two decades in the Bronx.
Bing Liu is a China-born, Midwest-raised filmmaker best known for directing the feature documentary MINDING THE GAP, which was nominated for an Oscar, an Independent Spirit, an Emmy and won a Sundance Special Jury and Peabody Award. He was a segment director on AMERICA TO ME, which premiered on Starz and was nominated for a Critics Choice Award for Best Limited Documentary Series. He co-directed his second feature documentary ALL THESE SONS with Josh Altman, which won Best Cinematography at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and the Maysles Award at the Denver International Film Festival. His short documentary WHAT THE HANDS DO had its world premiere at the 2023 Camden International Film Festival. He is currently in post production on PREPARATION FOR THE NEXT LIFE, a narrative feature produced by Plan B and Pastel for Orion Pictures. Since 2021 he has also been working on EMPATHY MIRRORS, a museum exhibit in partnership with Actual Films and Futures Without Violence.
Bao Nguyen is an Emmy-nominated Vietnamese American filmmaker whose
work has appeared on HBO, Netflix, ESPN, and the New York Times. He directed BE WATER, a documentary on Bruce Lee that premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and aired on ESPN, becoming the most-watched 30 for 30 film on the platform. His latest film, THE GREATEST NIGHT IN POP, about the making of “We Are the World,” premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and became the most watched documentary film on Netflix in 2024 and earned three Primetime
Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Documentary and Outstanding Directing. Bao is currently directing JIMI, the first authorized documentary on Jimi Hendrix, exploring his time in London before his rise to fame in America. He is a PBS/WGBH Producers Workshop Fellow, a Berlinale Talent Campus alumnus, a Firelight Media Fellow, and a 2022 BAFTA US Breakthrough recipient. Bao earned his BA from NYU and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts.