Evgenia Arbugaeva & Maxim Arbugaev

Haulout

Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev are sister and brother visual storytellers, who were born in the town of Tiksi, located in the Republic of Sakha Yakutia. Their work often looks into their homeland — the Arctic, discovering and capturing the remote worlds and people who inhabit them.

Taira Malaney

Turtle Walker

Taira Malaney is a writer, director, and producer from Goa, India, who tells deeply moving, character-driven stories that explore the relationships between people and the natural world. Her films are developed alongside impact campaigns to address the social justice and environmental issues central to the films she creates.

Lianne & Will Steenkamp

Lions Of The Skeleton Coast

In 2009, after more than a decade in the wildlife television industry, Will and Lianne Steenkamp started creating character-led, behavioral driven wildlife films. Their Emmy-nominated award-winning work has aired on BBC, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and more.

Cindy Lee

The Last Ranger

Cindy Lee, a South African film and commercials director, started her career in advertising. Twenty years ago, Cindy moved to directing TV commercials and is responsible for some of South Africa’s best-loved ads. Her latest film, The Last Ranger, was nominated for an Academy Award.

Darwin Shaw

The Last Ranger

Darwin is an director, writer, producer and actor of Pakistani-English mixed heritage. He and his partner Will Hawkes developed a scripted drama anthology series for emerging and diverse voices from twenty-four countries. The second film in the series, The Last Ranger, was nominated for an Academy Award.

Dr. Rae Wynn-grant & Peter Gros

Mutual Of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom

Co-hosts Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant and Peter Gros are wildlife experts. As a wildlife ecologist, Dr. Rae has expertise in uncovering how human activity influences carnivore behavior and ecology, while Peter joined the original Wild Kingdom team in 1985 and has nearly 30 years of field experience with captive wildlife.

Liz Unger

Batsies

Elizabeth Unger is a National Geographic Explorer who has worked and traveled across all seven continents. She’s a two-time Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Grantee and was selected in 2022 for DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 list. An environmentalist and activist herself, Liz is drawn to challenging, immersive, and impact-driven projects.

Ryan Wilkes

The Bird In My Backyard

Ryan Wilkes is a multi-talented storyteller whose passion for science, conservation and wildlife is reflected in his work as a documentary director, cinematographer and photographer. His diverse background, which includes a PhD in Bioengineering, gives him a unique perspective when it comes to communicating complex scientific topics for all audiences.

Eliot Logan-hines & Brian Nunes

Coexistence

Eliot Logan-Hines is the Director of Sustainable Commodities at Wildlife Conservation Society. His work focuses on developing and investing in businesses and commodity interventions with small-holder farmers and ranchers around the world.

Brian Nunes is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with over a decade of experience producing, directing and editing mostly independent work.

Justin Grubb

Hellbent

Justin Grubb is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, published writer, naturalist, and co-founder of Running Wild Media. He is a Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leader, a Nat Geo Wild "Wild to Inspire" award-winning filmmaker, a member of The Explorers Club, and an Emerging League member of the International League of Conservation Photographers.

Annie Roth

Hellbent

Annie Roth is a freelance science journalist living in Santa Cruz, California. She enjoys telling stories about animals and the people who study them. Directing Hellbent alongside Justin Grubb was the highlight of the pandemic for her.

KT Bryden

The Little Brown Bird

KT Bryden is an Emmy-winning cinematographer, conservationist, and film director based in St. Petersburg, Florida. Her work spans continents and ecosystems, capturing powerful stories that inspire change and amplify voices often unheard. Whether filming rare wildlife extreme environments, KT strives to reveal both the beauty and the urgency of protecting our natural world.

Katie Schuler

Wild Hope: Thunder And Fire

Katie is a conservation filmmaker, National Geographic Storyteller, and founder of Coral & Oak Studios. She has produced for all three seasons of the docuseries Wild Hope. Katie leverages 15 years of filmmaking experience on six continents to tell engaging stories that speak to our shared sense of empathy and compassion.