Jessica is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and writer. Her feature “Quiz Lady” won the 2024 Emmy for Best TV Movie. The first Asian-American woman to direct a network pilot, her credits include “The West Wing,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “The Morning Show,” and “Fosse/Verdon,” which earned Emmy and DGA directing nominations. Her documentaries include the water crisis film “Last Call at the Oasis” and the Oscar-winning “Breathing Lessons.” Her award-winning book, “The Garden of the Lost and Abandoned,” chronicles a Ugandan journalist’s quest to reconnect children with their families.

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Lucian Read is a multi-Emmy winning director and cinematographer. In 2024, he directed the feature documentaries, “Lions of Mesopotamia” ( SXSW 2024) and “Personal Courage.” He created the Norman Lear executive-produced docu-series “America Divided.” He was principal cinematographer for the Primetime Emmy-winning “Years of Living Dangerously.” His film "99%" was an official 2013 Sundance selection. As a photojournalist and news producer, he spent nearly three years embedded with US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

October 17, 2024

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