United Skates

New York-based, Vietnamese-Australian filmmaker Tina Brown has worked in media and entertainment through various roles including film publicist, magazine editor and writer, television and film producer, and now filmmaker. Brown co-produced the award-winning feature-length documentary Dear Mandela, which was supported by the Sundance Institute and was nominated for an African Academy Award. In 2009, she co-founded 2300 Films with her Emmy-award winning Director of Photography husband, Matt Peterson ACS. They have shot features and commercials in almost every US state including Alaska and Hawaii, and international locations from the San Blas Islands to Portugal. 

For nearly a decade, Dyana Winkler worked full time supporting filmmakers at the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and later the Tribeca Film Institute Feature Film Program. Winkler also worked as a screener for Chicken & Egg Pictures, programmed for the Sundance Film Festival and the Outfest Film Festival, and is an alumnus of the Film Independent Fast Track and Documentary Lab. Her most recent narrative screenplay, Bell, was awarded the 2016 Sundance Sloan Commissioning grant, the 2017 SFFILM Sloan Science in Cinema Fellowship, and participated in the 2017 Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab. Winkler spent nearly a decade living internationally, where she interviewed recent escapees from Tibet for local TV stations and newspapers, and directed a short documentary film on South Asian orphanages for the BBC.