Basil Tsiokos is a Senior Programmer for the Sundance Film Festival, focusing on nonfiction features. He was previously the longtime Director of Programming for DOC NYC and the Nantucket Film Festival, and before that the Artistic and Executive Director of NewFest. Basil has regularly served on the feature nominations committees for the International Documentary Association’s IDA Awards and Cinema Eye Honors, as well as the advisory board for the SXSW Film Festival. He has written about documentaries since 2010 on what (not) to doc. Basil holds a Masters degree from New York University and two undergraduate degrees from Stanford University.
Maya Newell is a director and impact producer from the Unquiet Collective based on Gadigal Wangal Country. Her recent short, The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone (2022), a Netflix Original premiered at Tribeca, was on the IDA Award shortlist and was nominated for a Peabody Award. She directed In My Blood It Runs (2019), which was a New York Times “Critics Pick”, won an AACTA Award for Best Direction and led a campaign that saw the 12 yr old star become the youngest person to address the United Nations, Human Rights Council in support of raising the age of criminal responsibility. Her first feature, Gayby Baby (2015) was banned by the NSW gov and sparked a national conversation on children in LGBTIQ families.
Hannah Buck is an award winning film editor with a focus on creative non-fiction and experimental forms. Her films have screened all over the world, including at Sundance, MoMA, Berlinale, TATE Modern, Tribeca and CPHdox. Recent editing credits include Lana Wilson’s Look Into My Eyes (Sundance 2024) for which she received a Cinema Eye Honors nomination for best editing; Penny Lane’s Confessions of a Good Samaritan (SXSW 2023) for which she won the Karen Schmeer Excellence in Documentary Editing Award; Invisible Beauty (Sundance 2023) directed by Bethann Hardison and Frédéric Tcheng; and Searchers (Sundance 2021) directed by Pacho Velez. Hannah has served as consulting editor on several projects including Sundance grand jury prize winner I Didn’t See You There (Sundance 2021) and The American Sector (Berlinale 2020), as well as for initiatives such as the Sundance Art of Non-Fiction Program, Field of Vision Labs, UnionDocs Labs and more. Hannah currently works between Sydney, Los Angeles and New York.
