CHRISTOF BOVE is an award-winning producer and director. For nine years he was a Vice President of Development at the NBC Universal Cable.  Of his 20 produced projects while there, his film 23 Days of Fear won an NAACP Image Award for TV best movie. 

While still an executive, he directed the award-winning documentary Deep Springs: A Desert Education.  In 2014, Netflix purchased his feature doc Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show. 

Creator and showrunner of the series EAT. RACE. WIN. for Amazon Prime, he won a 2019 Daytime Emmy after receiving two nominations, including Best Culinary Program.

(Because it was the first independent TV series shot within the world’s most famous, brand-protected race, the series was truly ground-breaking. Nor has any other series combined the genres of professional sports, cooking, and travelogue. In the wake of its creative, critical, and financial success, Christof founded Storm Buffalo Entertainment.)

A graduate of Deep Springs College, Cornell University, and California Institute of the Arts, he also attended the Sorbonne’s prestigious Centre Parisien d’Etudes Critiques, and was a DAAD scholar at the Hochshule der Künste in Berlin.

He is currently writing a memoir about a solo, transcontinental bike ride from San Francisco to New York.

As an editor, features writer, columnist, and author, DR. CLAUDIA CHUNG has worked for national lifestyle magazines, including Details, Instyle, W42, and Money.

Specializing in topics related to women's general interest studies, Claudia has written articles on health, sex, money, relationships, and everyday feminism.

Currently teaching at Hunter College, Claudia was also a faculty instructor at the New York Film Academy, and Columbia University from which she received her doctorate..

Her award-winning workshop on critical race consciousness in art, media, and education was presented to New York City Council Committee on Youth Services, Diversity in Research Conference, and Asian Americans in Leadership and Media.

Routledge Press will release her new book Art of Thing; Thing of Art in 2026. As a producer, she joined Storm Buffalo in 2021 to develop a ground-breaking dramatic series about the Harvey Girls.

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MICHAEL ANTHONY BROWN is a distinguished documentary editor with five Emmy Awards to his name. His portfolio includes Netflix's Losers, Amazon Prime's Eat. Race. Win., Coach Prime and This Giant Beast That Is The Global Economy, Showtime's All Access, and most recently Netflix's Mr. McMahon.

Michael played a pivotal role in earning FX’s Welcome to Wrexham two Emmy wins for Outstanding Picture Editing for Unscripted Reality for seasons One and Two. He crafted the pilot episode of Losers on Netflix, an innovative animated/live-action hybrid docu-series about society’s perceptions of winning and losing through the lives of professional athletes.

Losers received a 2020 Emmy nomination for Best Edited Sports Series. In 2019, he earned a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Single Camera Editing for Eat. Race. Win. on Amazon which combined the quest for culinary art and coveted victory at the Tour De France.

In 2024, American Cinema Editors nominated Michael's Welcome to Wrexham work for the 75th ACE EDDIE Awards for Best Non-Fiction Series.

CAROL CARIMI ACUTT is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, Emmy-nominated television producer, and Emmy-winning editor.

On over 65 shows, from traveling to the remote jungle with Gisele Bündchen to document indigenous healers with a Portuguese-only speaking crew, to EP’ing Jojo Siwa’s Facebook series, Jojo Goes, she has experience in every genre of unscripted and documentary television.

Carol was production and post-production supervising producer for The Deported, which received the 2019 Flickers' International Humanitarian Award, and received 38 million views.

She was lead editor on Religion of Sports, and the show Planet Primetime (Travel Channel), a series examining culture through unique television shows in 13 countries, was nominated for an Emmy, she was a supervising producer.

Eat.Race.Win. (Amazon), a behind-the-scenes documentary series about Tour de France and performance chef Hannah Grant, was Emmy-nominated for Best Culinary Series, and, for the same show, she won an Emmy for Best Single Camera Editing.

Her documentary film about a Cajun rock ‘n roll musician, Been Down that Muddy Road, won first place at the Rhode Island International Film Festival.

DR. JOELY PROUDFIT (Luiseño name Payómkawichum) is a descendant of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Mission Indians.  Having been tenured by the California State University system three times, Dr. Proudfit is the founding director of the California Indian Culture and Sovereignty Center. 

In 2016 she was appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Advisory Council on Indian Education.  In 2021 California Governor Gavin Newsom appointed her to the Commission on the Status of Women and Girls. 

Dr. Proudfit is president of Native Media Strategies.  She collaborates and consults to develop inclusive strategies for fostering authentic representation of Native Americans. Her partners include BBC, PBS, Nat Geo, ABC/Disney, Netflix, and others. Recent credits include Stumptown, Spirit Rangers, Scott Cooper’s film Hostiles featuring Christian Bale and Wes Studi, and Chelsea Handler’s “Chelsea and Chelsea Does.”

 In 2022, she was named one of two “Educators of the Year” by Variety.

TIM KRUBSACK is an accomplished television producer and network executive. He has been the head of unscripted programming for networks including Syfy, USA, and Z Living. 

Some of his shows include Face Off (winner of the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Competition Program), Ghost Hunters, Paranormal Witness, and Joe Rogan Questions Everything. As a producer, he has been involved with MTV’s Road Rules, and FOX’s Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction?

For Trio he produced the critically-acclaimed documentary, Outlaw Comic: The Censoring of Bill Hicks. 

He graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, with a degree in Cinema-Television Production.