Soheil Rezayazdi is the Nonfiction Programs Manager at The Gotham Film & Media Institute. Soheil manages the Gotham’s core documentary programs: the Documentary Feature Lab, the Spotlight on Documentaries section of the Gotham Week Project Market, and the Documentary Development Initiative in partnership with HBO Documentary Films. Soheil has worked with emerging filmmakers since 2015, when he began a seven-year tenure at the Columbia University MFA Film Program. At Columbia he managed the Columbia University Film Festival (CUFF), the Dr. Saul and Dorothy Kit Film Noir Festival, the Carla Kuhn Memorial Speaker Series, and other events and programs designed to cultivate the work of early-career filmmakers. Soheil is also a freelance writer on film and pop culture with clips in Filmmaker Magazine, Vice, Paper, Paste, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. A native of Iran, he holds a graduate degree in journalism and a BA in film studies from the University of Iowa.

Milton Tabbot is Senior Director of Programming at the non-profit Gotham Institute of Film & Media (formerly IFP). His responsibilities include supervising all documentary programs and overseeing The Gotham’s fiscal sponsorship program. His documentary program management includes the Spotlight on Documentaries section of the annual Project Market of Gotham Week, including oversight of documentary project selection and those industry relations, and supervision of the Gotham Documentary Feature Labs for first-time feature directors. He also manages the nomination and jury process for the annual Gotham Awards. He has been with the organization since 1996. At IFP he previously managed the Anthony Radziwill Documentary Fund (2004-2006), which provided seed grants for documentary features, and has served on program review panels for Doc Society’s Good Pitch, POV, and CoPro, The Israel Documentary Screen Market. Concurrent with his work at The Gotham, he served as the U.S. Consultant for the Locarno International Film Festival for the 2006-2009 editions under Artistic Director Frédéric Maire and has also served on juries for the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Big Sky Film Festival, DOC NYC, Atlanta Film Festival, Ashland Film Festival, and as a “Ringleader” at the True/False Film Festival. He has a BS in Communications from Northwestern University and an MA in Cinema Studies from New York University.