Director/Producer

Violet Du Feng

Violet is an Emmy winning filmmaker, a doc branch member of AMPAS and an adjunct professor at Columbia University. She has directed, produced and executive produced 13 documentaries including the Oscar Shortlisted, Peabody and Emmy nominated "Hidden Letters" with broadcast in 15 countries; "Harbor From the Holocaust", a CPB/PBS special film with music performed by Yo-yo Ma. Her producing credits include "Night of Nights", "Dear Mother", "I Meant to Write About Death", "Singing in the Wilderness", "Confucian Dream", "Maineland" and "Please Remember Me". She is a recipient of the 2024 Chicken and Egg Award, 2023 Sundance Momentum Fellowship, 2021 Rockwood Justfilm Fellowship and 2018 Sundance Producer Fellowship. Violet has served as an advisor for Sundance's Producers' Lab, AIDC, CAAM, Hot Docs, Doc Edge, CNEX and Shanghai Film Festival.

Producer

Joanna Natasegara

Joanna Natasegara is the Academy Award®-winning filmmaker behind Violet Films, a London-based production company. Violet Films’ work finds the political in the personal, tackling global stories with an intimate lens. With over 100 award nominations and over 65 wins, Violet’s work includes the Oscar®-winning Netflix Original "The White Helmets"; BAFTA and Oscar®-nominated "Virunga"; the Oscar®-nominated "The Edge of Democracy"; "The Heart of Invictus" docu-series for Netflix in association with Archewell Productions; "We Dare to Dream", the second film from Academy Award®-nominated director Waad al-Kateab and Executive Produced by Angelina Jolie & John Legend; and Disney's Oscar® Nominated Documentary Short, "Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó". Joanna continues to produce a highly anticipated slate of projects, including the scripted adaption of "Virunga" for Netflix, written by Academy Award®️-winner Barry Jenkins, Protest and Progress for Paramount Plus and an Untitled Music Doc for Film4 & Studio Gebbia.

Producer

Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas

Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas is an Emmy-nominated and award-winning producer, interactive producer and editor of feature documentaries. Through Ten Thousand Images she produced the award-winning "Hidden Letters", "No Word For Worry" in 2014 and "Nowhere to Hide" in 2016 which won over 20 awards including the first prize at IDFA, and was nominated for 2 Emmys. Her recent co-productions have won numerous international awards including Best Documentary at the Berlinale for "Myanmar Diaries" in 2022.

Producer

James Costa

James Costa is a documentary film producer. He is a member of The Producers Guild of America as well as BAFTA. He is on The National Council for The Roundabout Theatre in New York and Executive Producer Council for CAP/UCLA. James executive producers of Petra Costa’s latest film "Apocalypse in the Tropics", Michael Pemo’s latest film "Homegrown", which both premiered at Venice Film Festival 2024. His other noticeable EP credits include "The White House Effect" (2024), "Queendom" (2023), "Hidden Letters" (2022), "Freedom on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom" (2022), "Delikado" (2022) and "Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy" (2022) and "Welcome to Chechnya".