2025 Documentary Caucus Summit

Gabrielle Gatdula is an NYC-based producer, currently working as the staff Post Production Coordinator at documentary film/TV production company Story Syndicate. She has worked in the NYC entertainment industry for 10+ years, previously freelancing at Yahoo, Big Fish Entertainment, Left/Right, ITV, and others. Recent credits include Enigma (HBO), Sally (NatGeo), Titan: The OceanGate Disaster (Netflix), and Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna (Hulu). Gabrielle was a key member of the WGAE Organizing Committee and Bargaining Committee at Story Syndicate during the  process of winning the union and a first contract with her colleagues.

Ganeesh Genus is an award-winning filmmaker from West Palm Beach, Florida who mixes real with surreal to accurately depict the world around him. Recently, Ganeesh wrapped up production for the Netflix docuseries CONVERSATIONS WITH A KILLER: THE SON OF SAM TAPES that chronicles a dark period in New York City history as a serial strikes fear across the five boroughs in the 1970s, where he served as the Archival Associate Producer. In 2024, he Co-produced HOLLYWOOD BLACK for Amazon/MGM+, RadicalMedia, and Culture Machine. HOLLYWOOD BLACK was nominated for two awards at the 2025 News and Documentary Emmys: Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary and Best Documentary. Ganeesh served on the RadicalMedia Union Organizing Committee with the WGAE during their successful organizing campaign.

Owen O’Leary is an Associate Producer on PBS’ Finding Your Roots at McGee Media and has been working on the show for 5 seasons. He served on the organizing committee and bargaining committee for the McGee Media Union with the WGAE and is a shop steward for the unit.

Tony Gerber is an award-winning writer and filmmaker who’s directed in some of the most remote and dangerous regions of the world. A producer of the critically-acclaimed JANE and the Academy-Award shortlisted TAKEOVER (Tribeca 2021,) his other films include FULL BATTLE RATTLE (Berlinale Premiere, SXSW Grand Jury-Prize,) the WGA-nominated WAR GAME (Sundance, 2023) and THE NOTORIOUS MR. BOUT (Sundance, 2014.) He founded the Brooklyn-based, independent Production Company, Market Road films with playwright and screenwriter Lynn Nottage in 2005.

Lily-Hayes Kaufman is a recipient of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Grant for her debut feature documentary, Occupy Cannes, which will make its world premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival. Her prior work has screened at the Museum of the Moving Image, the Utah Arts Festival and the Lower East Side Film Festival among others. Kaufman directed Innards, a series of shorts, and the web series Rare Birds of Fashion, which she developed as an original series for NBC. Her writing has appeared in The Huffington Post, Fangoria, A Women’s Thing, Forbes, and the DOA Horror Anthology. She is a proud member of the Writers Guild of America East and serves on the Awards Committee. Kaufman lives in NYC with her husband and two children. Previously, she worked in commodities derivatives on Wall Street. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Duke University.

Matilda Douglas-Henry is a development manager, freelance writer and journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. Previously she was the Manager of Development at Story Syndicate, a documentary production company. Her written work has appeared in Document Journal, Office Magazine, and the Paris Review Daily, among others. Matilda was a key member of the WGAE/Story Syndicate Union Bargaining Committee, which recently achieved a first contract. She is currently an Unscripted Development Executive at Amplify Pictures, an independent studio and financier.

Dan Bromfield is an Emmy-nominated senior producer and EP with over 15 years experience making documentaries and non-fiction TV for the likes of Netflix, PBS, and Vox. Most recently, he worked as Co-EP on the latest season of The Food That Built America for History. As a development producer, he has developed projects for many of NYC’s leading production companies, with topics ranging from killer robots to beach volleyball.

Maria Agui Carter is an award-winning filmmaker, and Emerson College Professor. She’s currently writing and directing the BIRTHRIGHT documentary, a road film about belonging in America supported by NEH and Concordia Studio.  Her feature script SECRET LIFE OF LA MARIPOSA, based on her experience growing up undocumented was supported by a Sundance lab and is in development with Barbara DeFina Productions. A former staff producer for WGBH Boston’s national productions, her films and series have been seen around the world.  Her hybrid feature documentary REBEL now on Amazon Prime, won an Erik Barnouw award for best historical films in America, and she served as a director on the SCIGIRLS series that received an Emmy nomination. Most recently she directed ROOTED IN JUSTICE, on BIPOC women restoring the global ecosystem, and was a writer for  COLLECTIVE WISDOM; Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice, published in 2023 by Penguin/Random House.