Michael Ehrenzweig is a Supervising Producer at ITVS and joined the organization in 2015. He is an active member of the Producers Guild Of America and has won multiple Emmy Awards.
Before ITVS, Michael produced, line-produced, and production managed numerous award-winning documentaries and nonfiction films for PBS, The History Channel, HBO, National Geographic Channel, ARTE Europe, Channel 4 UK, Canal Plus France, and Germany’s ZDF. Focusing on international productions and co-productions, he has worked in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Michael’s work has been shown in theaters and on television worldwide and includes such seminal works as The Celluloid Closet, Paragraph 175, Freedom Machines, Howl, Here’s Looking At You Boy, The Royal Road, Life 360, and Unseen Enemy, a feature documentary on viruses and pandemics for CNN Films.
For ITVS, Michael was Supervising Producer on such programs as Always In Season, Moroni For President, The Providers, The First Rainbow Coalition, Our Time Machine, The Silence Of Others, Mama Bears, Move Me, If Dreams Were Lightening: Rural Healthcare.
Peter Hoffman Kimball is an award-winning screenwriter and director and, as the father of a deaf child, an advocate for d/Deaf representation. His 2023 film “Millstone” won the Grand Jury Prize at the Slamdance Film Festival, and he has directed two films which qualified for the Academy Awards. His films have screened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and such film festivals as Vancouver, Calgary, Cleveland, and Cucalorus. He is a former bouncer and German teacher and now is based in Washington, DC.
Matthew directed his first feature film before the age of 21 and has since worked on multiple award-winning fictional and documentary shorts. His solo directorial debut was screened across the UK, including at London and Manchester Lift-Off Film Festivals. Since then, Matthew has focused on non-fiction stories, with one of his latest documentaries garnering two wins and three official selections at BIFA-qualifying festivals, as well as an official selection at 2024’s BFI Future film festival; the biggest in the country for young filmmakers.
Dylan is an NYC-based director and published author. He studied at NYU Tisch Film School and spent the years since making films, writing books, and producing commercial content.
In 2016 he began working with Columbia University, with a team that focused on public health concerns. Dylan created many videos for this team and among them were four short documentaries about people with disabilities. Funded by a government grant, the aim of these documentaries was to educate clinicians about the experiences of different people with disabilities. One of these films was “Donald”, which followed dancer Donald Lee as he prepared for a live performance with the Heidi Latsky Dance Company.
A feature screenplay that Dylan wrote won a $10,000 award from the Sloan Foundation. A documentary of his was featured on Upworthy.com and viewed over 240,000 times. His short film “”The Tunnel”” has won “”Best Short Film”” at Inwood Film Festival and “”Best Short Director”” at the Austin Revolution Film Festival. Another short, “”Omie Wise””, won awards at the Las Vegas Film Festival and the First Run Film Festival.
Radha Mehta (she/her) is an award-winning Director/Writer/Artist with original works in film, music, and paintings. She earned an MFA in Film (Directing) at American Film Institute; is a RespectAbility Entertainment Fellow; and a voting member of The Recording Academy.
Her works stem from personal experience as a South Asian first-gen mother with the disability of being hard-of-hearing and explores themes of motherhood, women empowerment, and dismantling cultural taboos around mental health and disabilities. Prior to filmmaking, Radha wrote and performed songs for film and TV and was an elected Governor of The Recording Academy. Radha has also exhibited paintings in galleries throughout Florida, Michigan, and California. Radha is a proud mother of two children and wife to a veteran Army Ranger. Her current Slamdance ‘24 award-winning live action short film, DOSH about a hard-of-hearing mother who seeks help for her family in the midst of a fatal crisis, is touring the film festival circuit.
Her past films “”Evan Ever After”” won Audience Awards and Jury Awards at Oscar-qualifying film festivals Florida Film Fest and Out on Film Film Fest; and “”Being Gina”” was a Top-3 Finalist for the STARZ/WRAP/Lionsgate “”Stories We Tell”” Competition which was revealed at the Variety Power Women Summit in 2021.
John Bayless is a pianist, composer, recording artist, and teacher. His recordings have topped the charts since the mid-1980’s. As a performer, Mr. Bayless has toured extensively in the United States, Europe, and Asia, appearing with some of the world’s most prestigious orchestras at some of the world’s most famous venues. In 2008 a stroke paralyzed his right side, but instead of giving up, he taught himself to play with only his non-dominant left hand.
Currently, Mr. Bayless conducts Master Classes all over the United States, and until 2023 was Artistic Director of The Waring International Piano competition in Palm Desert—because he “loves helping shape the careers of young and aspiring pianists.” Mr. Bayless is also involved in three exciting new projects: a live, one-man show: “One Hand One Heart – My Life and My Music” where he tells his remarkable life story while playing his life’s music; the feature-length documentary: “Left Alone Rhapsody – The Musical Memoir of Pianist John Bayless;” and an auto-biographical book sharing reflections on his life and career. And—John still loves performing and concertizing around the world!
Nick is an award-winning director, producer, and editor whose work has been nominated for the Emmys, the Duponts, and the Academy Awards. His directorial work aims to present stories that challenge the shape and power of the documentary form, to inspire discourse, and to build empathy.
His latest feature documentary, Tell Them You Love Me, won the jury award for best documentary at the Hamptons International Film festival, and was released in the UK in February 2024 to critical acclaim.
From the moment she received her son Jordan’s Deafness diagnosis, Jodi dedicated herself to finding the most suitable tools for improving quality of life for such disabilities, rising to a high level of professionalism as a consultant and advocate for inclusion rights through various international initiatives. Since RALLY CAPS, among her many professional accomplishments, Jodi has published 5 books both in English and Italian.
A New York transplant by way of his native China, Bing is a dynamic filmmaker known for capturing intimate human relationships and presenting enlightening cinematic moments to cultural outsiders. His films explore diverse aspects of communication and identity issues (disability, sexuality, race, etc.) and have screened at over 30 festivals and universities around the world.
Bing also works as a seasoned video artist for educational organizations and independent documentaries. He graduated from New York University with an M.A. in Cinema Studies from Tisch School of the Arts and an advanced certificate in Culture and Media from the Anthropology Department.
Stewart’s career as a director-writer-producer straddles the worlds of film and theater and encompasses techniques of both narrative and documentary storytelling. His undergraduate studies in architectural design and photography at the University of Pennsylvania, coupled with filmmaking skills acquired at NYU’s graduate school of Film and Television inform the dynamic aesthetic of his award-winning work.
Stewart has directed extensively for theater in New York and surrounding regions and has recently completed the feature-length documentary “LEFT ALONE RHAPSODY.” Stewart has directed numerous short films for Montclair State University. His feature-length screenplays are in various stages of production. Most importantly, Stewart is a ‘people person’ priding himself on his ability to create a comfortable, safe, and professional working environment in which compelling art can be made in both the theatrical and corporate worlds.
