Sarah Winshall is a creative producer and the founder of the independent production company Smudge Films. Her latest release is Give Me Pity!, a dazzling musical extravaganza from director Amanda Kramer. The film made its World Premiere at IFFR in and will be released by Utopia in 2023. Before that, she produced Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley’s Strawberry Mansion, and Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair. Both premiered at Sundance, and were released in the spring of 2022. In 2018 she produced Bridey Elliott’s Sundance comedy Clara’s Ghost and Jenny Murray’s award-winning documentary, ¡Las Sandinistas!. Previous work has played at Sundance, SXSW, New Directors/New Films, CPH:DOX, Outfest, Rotterdam, at MoMA, on FX, and on the Criterion Channel. In 2022, she was selected for the Gotham/Cannes Producers Network Fellowship. Most recently, Sarah and Smudge Films partnered with Fruit Tree and A24 for Jane Schoenbrun's new feature, I Saw the TV Glow. Her newest documentary, Joybubbles, was included in the 2022 The Gotham Documentary Lab. 

Carlos Zozaya is an independent feature film producer with a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He served as a Co-Producer on "Chained For Life" (Dir. Aaron Schimberg), and as lead producer, helmed Sebastián Silva's "Tyrel", which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Magnolia Pictures (2018). His next project, "Aviva", (Dir. Boaz Yakin) with choreography by Bobbi Jene Smith was an official selection of the 2020 SXSW Film Festival and was released by Outsider Pictures / Strand Releasing (2020). Carlos' most recent feature, "We’re All Going to the World’s Fair" (Dir. Jane Schoenbrun) premiered to critical acclaim at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. It was picked up by Utopia Select and HBO Max, earning two Gotham Award nominations in 2022. His upcoming projects include Bobbi Jene Smith's directorial debut, "Broken Theater" (Mad Gene Media / Dweck Productions), the latest feature film from directors Bill & Turner Ross (Department of Motion Pictures), and Haley Elizabeth Anderson's directorial debut, "Flotsam/Jetsam" (Flies Collective / Dweck Productions). In 2018 he was selected as a Gotham fellow for the IFFR Producer’s Lab in Rotterdam. Carlos was raised in Mexico City and now resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Jamie Zelermyer is the Interim Deputy Director at The Gotham. She has been a New York-based Producer and Production Executive for the past twenty-plus years. Jamie is the co-host and creator of I Was Never There, a serialized eight episode non- fiction podcast, made in collaboration with Wonder Media Network. The series premiered at The Tribeca Festival in 2022 garnering a Special Jury Mention and has cracked the top 20 on ApplePodcasts. She was the VP, Physical Production at Focus Features / Rogue Pictures for six years. Prior to Focus Jamie was a Line Producer and Production Manager working on films such as Igby Goes Down, Boys Don’t Cry and You Can Count on Me. Jamie is the former President of the Board of Directors of New York Women In Film and Television, and is an adviser on NYWIFT’s The Writer Lab, a program for female Writer’s over 40 funded by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman.