Joan Baez

Karen O'Connor is an award-winning filmmaker. Her films, produced, written and directed with Miri Navasky, include The Killer at Thurston High, a Banff Award-winning investigation of a school shooting; The Suicide Plan, an Emmy Award-nominated film that delves into the hidden world of assisted suicide; the Emmy Award-nominated The New Asylums, a heartbreaking portrait of mentally ill prisoners that won the Robert F. Kennedy Grand Prize Journalism Award; the Emmy Award-winning The Undertaking, a moving exploration of mortality and grief told from the point of view of renowned poet and mortician Thomas Lynch; and the Emmy Award-winning Growing Up Trans, a powerful and personal exploration of the struggles and choices facing transgender children and their parents, which was shortlisted for a Peabody Award and won a DuPont Columbia Award.

Miri Navasky is an award-winning director who co-founded Mead Street Films with Karen O'Connor over twenty years ago. Her films include The Killer at Thurston High, a Banff Award-winning investigation of a school shooting; the Emmy-nominated The New Asylums, a heartbreaking portrait of mentally ill prisoners that won the Robert F. Kennedy Grand Prize Journalism Award; The Undertaking, an Emmy-nominated film that won the Robert F. Kennedy Grand Prize Journalism Award. Kennedy Grand Prize Journalism Award; The Undertaking, an Emmy Award-winning film that follows underground poet Thomas Lynch as he explores mortality and grief in small-town Michigan; The Suicide Plan, an Emmy Award-nominated film that delves into the hidden world of assisted suicide; and Growing Up Trans, an intimate exploration of the struggles and choices facing transgender children and their parents, which was nominated for an Emmy, shortlisted for a Peabody and awarded a DuPont Columbia Award.

Maeve O'Boyle is an Emmy Award-winning director. She edited The Education of Mohammad Hussein (HBO), which was nominated for an Academy Award. She co-produced and edited Firestone and the Warlord (PBS), which won an Emmy Award and an IRE Award in 2014. She also edited and co-produced Growing Up Trans (PBS) with O'Connor and Navasky, which won a Pont Columbia Award. She co-wrote and edited 112 Weddings for Doug Block, which premiered at Full Frame, Hot Docs and Sheffield Doc/Fest and aired on HBO and BBC Storyville, and Do I Sound Gay? for David Thorpe, which had its world premiere at TIFF and won the People's Choice Award. She also directed Left of the Dial (HBO), Heat (PBS), Carrier (PBS) and The Kids Grow Up (HBO), which premiered at IDFA and Full Frame and received a Special Jury Award at AFI Docs. In 2020, she directed, produced and edited The 8th, which received critical acclaim in the UK and Ireland and was nominated at IFTA for Best Documentary. She is currently editing a feature documentary entitled The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks.