• Alon Schwarz - Film Director

    Alon Schwarz is an award-winning documentary director. In 2017, he directed and produced the feature documentary Aida’s Secrets, which premiered at Hot Docs, won the Audience Award at Tel Aviv’s Docaviv Festival, and was theatrically distributed in the United States and Israel. Prior to his filmmaking career, Alon held management positions in the software and technology sector after being a serial entrepreneur.

  • Shaul Schwarz - Producer

    Shaul Schwarz is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and photojournalist based in Brooklyn, NY. His debut documentary, Narco Cultura, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013. He is also a regular photographic contributor to Time magazine and National Geographic and has directed content for Netflix, Discovery Channel, History Channel and CNN. In 2016, he directed the Emmy-winning series A Year in Space, produced with Time’s Red Border Films, co-directed the documentary Aida's Secrets, which premiered at Hot Docs in 2016, and co-directed the Emmy-winning documentary, Trophy, which premiered at Sundance in 2017. Shaul is the co-founder of Reel Peak Films with Christina Clusiau. He was an executive producer and cinematographer on the Netflix documentary series Unnatural Selection and director and executive producer of Immigration Nation. Most recently, Shaul produced Tantura, directed by Alon Schwarz, which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.

  • Maiken Baird - Producer

    Maiken Baird is an independent documentary filmmaker specializing in international and political affairs. She executive produced the Academy Award-winning film Icarus and is a frequent collaborator of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney and his Jigsaw Productions, first producing Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer in 2010 and, later, serving as an executive producer of Totally Under Control, Divide and Conquer: The Rise and Fall of Roger Ailes, as well as No Stone Unturned, Elián, and the BAFTA-nominated City of Ghosts. Most recently, Maiken executive produced Matthew Heineman's The First Wave, shot in NYC in the harrowing early weeks of the pandemic and The Grab (an investigative documentary that uncovers the money, influence and alarming rationale behind covert land grabs by some of the world's most powerful countries) which recently premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Maiken is a member of the PGA, DGA and the Council on Foreign Relations.