Pete Muller is an American visual artist and documentarian. He uses photography, film, and other media to examine issues related to masculinities, conflict, and human ecology. Since 2017, he has been a Storytelling Fellow at the National Geographic Society. From 2005–2020, he was based in the Middle East and Africa, exploring and documenting conflict dynamics in post-colonial states.
He has received major awards from World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, the Overseas Press Club, TIME Magazine, and others. In 2022, he won the Emmy Award for Best Documentary as Co-Producer of THE FIRST WAVE. His photographic work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in London, New York City, Geneva, Cape Town, and elsewhere. Muller also served as the Cyrus Vance Visiting Professor of International Relations at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts where he taught courses on social and armed conflict through the lens of visual media.
Nathan Golon is a director, cinematographer and co-founder of GoodFight Media. His credits include I AM YUP’IK (director and cinematographer) which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, RUN MAMA RUN (cinematographer and producer) which was nominated for an Emmy and premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, and Hangdog (cinematographer and producer) which premiered at the 2023 Provincetown International Film Festival and received global distribution through Apple TV and Amazon.
Noel’s videos range from dance-based performance pieces to technical concepts to understated narratives. He started directing music videos with his friend Stefan Moore under the moniker “That Go” while the duo was still in art school in Seattle. Since then, Noel has lived and worked all over the world, following whims and projects to create a body of work diverse in style but unified in sensibility.
Multiple award-winning pianist and composer Nikolaj Hess is a sophisticated, boundary-pushing virtuoso artist with a sound that spans Nordic jazz, post-bop, new-classical, and Global jazz traditions. His touch on the piano is described as effervescent and golden, and Mitch Myers from Magnet Magazine/Down Beat calls him “one of the most inventive pianists working today”.
