Francesco Saviano (Director, Producer): Francesco Saviano is a director, producer, writer, and cinematographer, and the founder of the Brooklyn, New York–based production company Unarmed Media. His narrative and documentary films have appeared in top festivals including the Tribeca Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, and the New York Television Festival in NYC. Most recently, he was the cinematographer on D.W. Young’s feature documentary Uncropped about photographer James Hamilton, executive produced by Wes Anderson. He is also a producer and cinematographer on the original series Building, written and directed by Colin Quinn and featuring Vincent Piazza and Kathrine Narducci. Francesco just completed work as cinematographer on Women Laughing, a documentary about the pioneering women artists of The New Yorker magazine, executive produced by Katie Couric, and he is currently directing The People’s Masterpiece, a feature documentary on Keith Haring and the power of art as activism that features 30 hours of never before seen archival footage of the creation of “CityKids Speak On Liberty”, the largest free standing and arguably most important piece ever created by Haring.

Marika Hacking (Editor, Producer, Cinematographer): Marika Hacking is a New York based editor, director, cinematographer, illustrator, and co-founder of the production company Unarmed Media. With a multidisciplinary approach and a keen visual sensibility, she has built a dynamic career that bridges commercial, narrative, and documentary work. Her editing portfolio includes a broad range of clients - from global agencies like Omnicom to respected institutions such as NPR - showcasing her ability to shape compelling stories across genres and formats. Driven by a deep passion for storytelling, her work is rooted in empathy and a commitment to authenticity, often revealing the personal and political forces that shape individual lives. Most recently, Marika was the editor on the feature documentary On The Line, a decade-long project following three New York City boxers as they fight for identity, purpose, and success both inside and outside the ring. Other recent credits include, director of photography with Francesco Saviano on Colin Quinn’s original series, Building, D.W. Young’s Uncropped, a documentary on photographer James Hamilton, executive produced by Wes Anderson, and Women Laughing, a documentary on the pioneering cartoonists of the New Yorker Magazine.

Vincent Piazza (Executive Producer): Vincent Piazza is perhaps best known for his portrayal of gangster Lucky Luciano on the critically acclaimed HBO series Boardwalk Empire directed and executive produced by Martin Scorsese. Shortly after, Piazza teamed up with another legendary director landing the lead role of Tommy DeVito in Clint Eastwood’s, Jersey Boys. Piazza’s first hand at producing came in 2014 starring opposite Patricia Arquette in the critical darling, indie drama, Wannabe. He recently stars in the IFC thriller, Centigrade, which is based on true events and returned to television and is currently in production for the smash hit Paramount+ series, Tulsa King: Season 4 starring opposite Sylvester Stallone. Piazza’s latest projects also include the original feature screenplay, Midge, he is penning alongside Terence Winter (Wolf of Wall Street, Sopranos) with Appian Way set to produce along with executive producing Francesco Saviano’s documentary, On the Line, set to premiere later this year.

Molly Conners (Executive Producer): Molly Conners is COO of Phiphen Studios as well as the founder and CEO of Phiphen, an independently owned film, television, and digital media company focused on producing, creative, smart, and efficiently budgeted productions for a global audience. Currently a member of the Producers Guild of America, The British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the Television Academy, Molly is Emmy nominated and has produced or executive produced 35 feature films over the last 15 years that have earned a total of 4 Academy Awards and 11 Academy Award nominations.Some of Molly’s notable credits include the 2014 Academy Award-winner BIRDMAN, the 2009 Academy Award-nominated FROZEN RIVER starring Melissa Leo, William Friedkin’s KILLER JOE starring Mathew McConaughey, James Gray’s THE IMMIGRANT starring Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner, JOE, starring Nicolas Cage, and Warren Beatty’s RULES DON’T APPLY. She also produced Eli Roth’s THE GREEN INFERNO, Zach Braff’s WISH I WAS HERE and John Hillcoat’s TRIPLE 9 starring Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kate Winslet, Anthony Mackie, Woody Harrelson,Gal Gadot and Aaron Paul. At Phiphen, the credits roll on with Netflix’s LIKE FATHER, starring Kristen Bell, Kelsey Grammer and Seth Rogen, IFC’s CENTIGRADE, Vertical’s medical thriller, THE GOD COMMITTEE, and the Emmy-nominated short-form comedy television series IT’S BRUNO, currently streaming on Netflix.

Brendan McGee (Producer): Brendan McGee was first introduced to the sport of boxing in the late 1970s as he watched his father prepare for the 1980 New York State Police Olympics. He trained and competed as a white collar boxer in NYC for over 10 years and his younger brother Michael was a member of the NYPD boxing team. These experiences have given him first hand knowledge about the training, discipline, and commitment that are required to succeed in the Sweet Science. Brendan was a finalist at the 2014 New York TV Festival for 'Out of the Ring' and is also an active screenwriter with his most recent work, The Milky Way Over Lubec, hosted on The Black List.  Brendan is Principal, Project Director at Unispace, Inc., a global architectural design build firm. 

Adam Abdalla (Producer): As the CEO of Cultural Counsel, Adam Abdalla has been actively collaborating with and advising globally recognized museums, foundations, art galleries, publications, neighborhoods, hotels, and luxury brands for a decade, with a strong focus on communications, strategic marketing and program ideation and execution. He has launched successful global campaigns for A24, Red Bull, EDGLRD, ONX, Netflix, Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Prada, Creative Time, Thom Browne, United States Artists, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and countless others. He was the co-founder of Artist Relief, the nation's largest COVID-19 relief program for creatives, organizing the marketing campaign for 7 mid-sized nonprofits to raise over $25M over 6 months. In addition, he has a long history at the intersection of sports and creativity, founding the publication Orange Crush: The Journal of Art & Wrestling in 2020, which has been covered in The New York Times, CNN, Sports Illustrated, Monocle and Wallpaper*. Since then, he has curated 5 exhibitions focused on the crossover of culture and combat sports and published 2 books, Death in Covid and VISITORS. In 2025, he placed the first painting by a professional wrestler in a major art museum. He currently serves as a Board Member of the NewArt Dealers Alliance and Independent Curators International, and serves on the Advisory Board ofthe newly opened Southampton Playhouse.

Brean Cunningham (Producer): Brean Cunningham is a NYC-based, award-winning filmmaker whose feature film work has appeared on Netflix, Hulu, PBS, Nat Geo, and Showtime. As a director and producer his credits include the prison-dog training program feature documentary, Dogs on the Inside, and the Showtime Sports feature doc, Basketball County: In the Water. He has guided video campaigns for Westminster Kennel Club, GlaxoSmithKline, Bleacher Report, and produced four seasons of the Atlas Obscura travel doc series, Small Town Big Story. 

Judith Mizrachy (Consulting Producer): Judith Mizrachy is a New York City-based independent producer whose work includes THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT (director Anne Alvergue), which premiered at Sundance in 2022, was released globally on Netflix, and was nominated for a 2023 Academy Award; THE BOOKSELLERS (director D.W. Young, executive producer Parker Posey), which premiered at the New York Film Festival in 2019 and was released theatrically around the world; and UNCROPPED (director D.W. Young / executive producer Wes Anderson), which launched as the Centerpiece at DOC NYC in 2023 was named “One of the Best Documentaries of the Year” by Variety.  Her most recent producing credits include the ITVS film LAND WITH NO RIDER (director Tamar Lando / World Premiere True/False 2025), MAINTENANCE ARTIST (director Toby Perl Freilich / World Premiere Tribeca Film Festival 2025), and the short WOMEN LAUGHING (directors Kathleen Hughes and Liza Donnelly) which will be released by The New Yorker in 2026.

David Cieri (Composer): David Cieri, a musician and composer, makes music for film, concert, and album release. Cieri has worked with numerous celebrated filmmakers including Ken Burns, the Ewers Brothers, and Barak Goodman. He has recorded nineteen acclaimed albums under his own name, that last ten of which were released by Ropeadope Records. He has collaborated on a major live documentary project with the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage and has made two records with the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa. David wrote and performed the live scores for the first three seasons of The Paris Review podcasts. He teaches courses on Film Scoring and Music for Film at The City College of New York.