Projects

Laila Kazmi is a two-time regional Emmy® Award-winning producer, director, editor, and a six-time nominee. Her documentary shorts have aired on PBS television stations, Seattle Channel, streamed on PBS NewsHour, and screened at various film festivals. Laila was series producer for digital series Borders & Heritage, streaming on PBS.org. Laila… Show more grew up in Chicago, where she first learned about Fazlur Rahman Khan on a visit to the Sears (now Willis) Tower. The Fazlur Rahman Khan documentary is Laila's first feature-length film. Show less

Alejandra Vasquez is a Mexican-American filmmaker and producer. She grew up in West Texas and studied film at UC Berkeley. In the past, she worked for TED and NPR. Most recently, she was the Production Coordinator for Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (2018), winner of the Sundance Special Jury Prize. She’s also an Associate Producer for Us Kids (2020), set to… Show more premiere at Sundance in competition and a Co-Producer on a forthcoming documentary by Nanfu Wang. As a series producer for Topic Studios, she recently completed a four-part series Night Shift and ten-part series Eating. Show less

Violet Du Feng is an Emmy Award-winning independent documentarian. Her producing credits include Singing in The Wilderness (Hot Docs premiere), Confucian Dream (Karlovy Vary Special Jury Award, Chinese Documentary Academy Award), Maineland (Jury Winners of SXSW and IFF Boston, NYTimes Critic's Pick), and Please Remember Me (IDFA premiere, GZDoc… Show more Best Documentary, Chinese Academy Documentary Award nomination, Doc Impact Hi5). Her films have screened at over 120 international festivals and institutions, with US and Chinese theatrical releases, public broadcasts, and digitally released globally on multiple platforms. Feng started her career as a co-producer on the critically acclaimed 2007 Sundance Special Jury winner, Peabody and Emmy winner Nanking, which was distributed theatrically around 30 countries throughout the world, and was the highest-grossing documentary in China. Violet is the director of the acclaimed recent PBS documentary Harbor From The Holocaust and producer of the forthcoming film People’s Hospital and director of her first feature-length documentary Hidden Letters. Show less