Matt Nadel is a documentary filmmaker focused on gender, sexuality, and justice. His latest documentary short, CANS Can’t Stand (The New Yorker 2023), follows a group of Black trans women in New Orleans fighting to repeal Louisiana’s unjust Crime Against Nature by Solicitation (CANS) law. Matt’s work has screened at festivals across the world—including the Cannes Emerging Filmmaker Showcase, Outfest, and Provincetown—and has been featured on Vimeo Staff Picks and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Matt was born and raised in Florida and now lives in Brooklyn.

Luke Hodges is a filmmaker based in New York City, with roots in Columbia, South Carolina. With Matt Nadel, he is the co-founder of Nine Patch Pictures, a small documentary production company focused on queer stories. Nine Patch films have been supported by the Catapult Film Fund, the Anchor Point Foundation, Sligo Studios, and others.

Julie Cohen is the Academy Award® nominated, Emmy winning director and producer of RBG (2018) along with Betsy West. Other films she’s directed with West include JULIA (2021), which was shortlisted for an Academy Award; My Name is Pauli Murray (2021), which won a Peabody Award; and Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down (2022), which was nominated for the Critics Choice Award for Best Documentary Feature. Solo directing projects include Every Body (Focus Features 2023), The Sturgeon Queens (2014), and Ndiphilela Ukucula: I Live to Sing (2013).