Biographies

Ruchi Mital is a filmmaker, producer, and writer with a social justice background. In 2014, Ruchi produced a feature documentary, ‘We Could Be King,’ which won the Emmy for outstanding sports documentary, as well as the follow up short doc series, Hell Week [ESPN]. Her next production, Sky Ladder: The Art Of Cai Guo-Qiang, premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. She is currently producing a documentary series for HBO about the women’s movement; and a feature-length hybrid documentary about the artist Nellie Mae Rowe: ‘This World Is Not My Own.’

Her experimental short films have screened at festivals from NYC to UK. Ruchi spent over a decade working in non-profit organizations and published a chapter in critical anthology, Michael Jackson: Grasping the Spectacle. Ruchi is a graduate from New York University and holds a Masters in Media Studies from The New School.

Petter Ringbom’s debut feature documentary ‘The Russian Winter,’ premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2012. His follow up, ‘Shield and Spear,’ premiered at Toronto’s Hot Docs in 2014, and won the silver price at UK’s Passion for Freedom Awards. His films were screened at IDFA, Sheffield Doc/Fest, BAM, the Hammer Museum, Film Society of Lincoln Center, the International Film Festivals of Moscow, Gothenburg, Durban, and Stockholm.

His art video collaboration with Karl Haendel, ‘Questions for My Father,’ was hailed as a “genuine sleeper” by the New York Times, and was selected for the Art Video program at Art Basel Miami. Ringbom has a BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. He started his career as a designer and art director, and previously taught at Parsons School of Design and at New York University. He also served on the Board of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts.