Christine Yoo is a director, producer, writer, volunteer at San Quentin State Prison and co-founder of the San Quentin Film Festival. As a producer, she has worked on nonfiction series for National Geographic, History, Oxygen and PBS for Revelations Entertainment, S.M.A.C., The Story Lab, Dick Wolf Films, Shed Media and Prometheus. Her independent work focuses on under-served voices and has been sponsored by Sundance, The Marshall Project, Rogovy Foundation, LGMobile, Hyundai, Korean Air and she is a Logan Nonfiction Fellow. Yoo directed and produced the documentary short, A Conversation At Claudia’s, a special project for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA PS1), co-wrote the cult anime series Afro Samurai, starring Samuel L. Jackson, and directed, produced and co-wrote the award-winning Korean-American rom-com Wedding Palace, starring Brian Tee and S. Korean actress Kang Hy-jung (Oldboy) in her English language debut. 26.2 TO LIFE is Yoo’s first feature documentary.

Jennifer M. Kroot is a seasoned documentary filmmaker. Her feature documentary, The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin, premiered at the 2017 South by Southwest Film Festival and won the Documentary Spotlight Audience Award. Untold Tales was broadcast on Independent Lens and screened theatrically in several U.S. cities. Her previous documentary, To Be Takei, premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was distributed through Starz Digital Media. Her feature documentary, It Came From Kuchar, premiered at the 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival and was broadcast on the PBS documentary series, Truly CA. All of Kroot’s documentaries have streamed on Netflix.

Carolyn Mao is a LA-based producer and former development executive. Her most recent release is Marvelous and the Black Hole, the debut feature for writer/director Kate Tsang, starring Miya Cech and Rhea Perlman, which premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in April 2022. The film was the recipient of the $1M grant from Untold Stories, presented by AT&T and Tribeca Film Institute. She also produced an episode of Take Out with Lisa Ling (HBO Max) and was an Associate Producer on the documentary, Be Water, that premiered at Sundance 2020 (ESPN). Mao is a fellow of the Cannes Producer Network, Sundance Producing Summit, Film Independent Producing Lab and Tribeca Film Institute’s All Access and Through Her Lens programs. As a Project Involve fellow, she was the recipient of the inaugural Amazon Studios fellowship awarded to a visionary producer.

Sara Jane Sluke has produced 150 hours of unscripted broadcast programming for a variety of networks including ABC, Fox, CW, Discovery, History, National Geographic, MTV, and Lifetime. Docuseries highlights include Cellblock 6: Female Lockup (Relativity Media/TLC), which followed the stories of incarcerated women in a Cincinnati jail, and Escape to Chimp Eden (Animal Planet), a Humane Society Genesis Award-nominated series that tracked the rescue and rehabilitation of chimpanzees at a Jane Goodall Institute sanctuary in South Africa. Sluke is also a showrunner and writer of children’s television, and co-author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Dealing With Stress for Teens and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Surviving Peer Pressure for Teens (Alpha Books).

Hella Winston is a sociologist and investigative journalist with a background in print and audio reporting and documentary film production. She has held postdoctoral research fellowships at Johns Hopkins, Princeton and UMass Amherst and was a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. She has received reporting grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Investigative Fund/Type Investigations and was one of five 2017 John Jay/Quattrone Reporting Fellows at the H.F. Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Zahava Hirsch is an associate producer turned engineer. After working on 26.2 to Life, she returned to school and got her master’s degree in biomedical engineering. Inspired by the benefits of running she observed through her work on the documentary, Hirsch is currently working on her PhD in biomechanics - researching the mechanical strategies involved in maintaining balance during complex gait maneuvers, specifically for the older adult population who are at risk of falling. Hirsch is dedicated to using her skills and education to continue serving underrepresented populations.

Dexter Braff is President of The Braff Group, one of the nation’s leading health care merger and acquisition advisory firms. Since its founding in 1998, the firm has completed more than 370 health care transactions. Over the past ten years, he has taken his interest in independent filmmaking and has executive produced feature films including “Two Cents from a Pariah”, “Galveston”, “The Beach House”, “Cryptozoo”, “Freedom’s Path” and most recently, “Emily the Criminal”. He also supports documentary filmmaking, and has executive produced “Battleground”, the award-winning film, “The Fifth Man”, and most recently, “26.2 to Life”, all three of which are in various stages of circulation.

Andrew Bishop is an award-winning producer, senior media executive and entrepreneur with over two decades of leadership experience. He is the founder and Chief Visionary Officer of the "content for cause" company, the Brave Road, PBC and President of Production at Vast Entertainment. He is currently producing and executive producing both unscripted and scripted film, television and transmedia. Bishop’s work can currently be seen airing domestically and internationally on various networks and streamers.

Frank Connelly is a former lawyer turned social impact film producer. He has produced content with Al Roker Entertainment, A Juke Films, Paulist Productions and Brave Road Entertainment. He is the head of CSR/ESG at Social Impact Entertainment Society and recently published a book on ESG Storytelling and Cause Marketing. His passion is criminal justice reform and how stories and programs can work together to change public perception about society's marginalized. Connelly and his wife also founded media tech firm Hero Bridge, a digital mentorship community for former foster youth.

Cliff Traiman is an award-winning director of photography and filmmaker with over twenty-five years as an industry professional. With a background in English literature and still photography, Cliff brings a storyteller’s perspective to his craft, shooting everything from national spots to feature films. Traiman’s clientele includes companies such as Apple, Google, Facebook, NBC, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, and the San Francisco Giants.

Marcos Moro is an award-winning editor whose work has screened worldwide. With a career spanning the United States, England and Australia, he has worked across a wide range of genres that have appeared on Netflix, Hulu, National Geographic, BBC, History, Discovery, Spike, Bravo, and MTV, among others. With a desire to be part of productions that create awareness and affect change, and over fifteen years of experience, Moro brings a unique and well honed sense of storytelling to his projects.

Antwan “Banks” Williams is the co-creator and sound designer for the Pulitzer Prize-nominated podcast, Ear Hustle. As a self-taught multi-faceted artist, his practices include dance, visual arts, spoken word, as well as music composition. In October of 2019, Banks was released from prison after serving 13 years and is currently performing music throughout the Bay Area and touring local schools, using his lived experiences as a way to deconstruct the school-to-prison pipeline.